#mud run

So from the ages of 8-9 I ran three 5ks with her, and I hated every single one. But I did like hanging out with my mom, and she was always really proud of me after we finished a race, so I was like. Whatever. I’ll put up with this to make her happy.

UNTIL the very last race I ran. The “Tough Enough 5k Mud Run.” And if you’ve never heard of a mud run it’s literally just. You run through a bunch of mud. It’s a regular 5k, which already sucks, but the ground is all muddy and periodically throughout the track there’s just these— these pits of mud you have to wade through.

i had the amazing opportunity to join one of my friends for an obstacle course race/mud run for the first time this past weekend! i’ve never run in a race of any kind really, so this was exciting as both a race and an obstacle course! the course was a 5k running course filled with like, 20-30 obstacles including climbing over walls/ladders/fences of many kinds, huge slides, rope net climbing, crawling under barbed wire through mud pits, and so much more.

i stayed with my friends the whole time and i didn’t really train, so we walked a good chunk of it. there were tons of hills, sandy trails, forest paths, and other terrain that made running even harder anyway. safe to say i definitely wasn’t running for time, just for fun!