Mud Run 09

This weekend Jared had the brilliant idea of signing us up for a mud run. So Katie gave up her Saturday morning snooze in to run 6k in waist high mud...literally! At least it advertised that we could take a dip in the river afterwards. However when we arrived we took one look and thought that there was no way we were going in it.

The race turned out to be a little more intense than we anticipated. First we started running through several natural mud flats. And for those of you who have ever had the pleasure of experiencing natural mud flats, you will know the horrible sulfer stench that comes with. Soon we moved on to the wade...a wade through a chest high river for about 1k. We had a few more mud flats and a few more dips in the river including a swim across it in parts. Then at the end it was a crawl of course. This time a man made pit which you had to roll in to get to the finish.

By the end we were more than happy to jump in the river that looked less than appetising before. At least it was interesting and something we may never do again!