Mud Run or Bust- Camp Pendleton Mud Run 6/9/12

(I have so many things I want to write about regarding running and my plans to run the 2015 Dopey Challenge, but in order to focus on my future I want to embrace and share my running past... These race recaps were written for my original blog and have been added here for a view into how I came to where I am now.)

*Originally posted 6/15/12

This past Saturday was the Camp Pendleton World Famous Mud Run. Rachel, Patrick and I participated in the mud run two years ago and had such an amazing time!

It was definitely an easy decision when Rachel suggested we participate again this year.

I had an easier time this year going through all of the obstacles, and running the course in general. Possibly because I've been running a lot more than I had two years ago. Possibly because I knew what to expect. Either way, the before and after pictures are impressive.



Before- 2010

After- 2012. Maybe we just got smarter and took the picture from the waist up..



 

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Here are some of the random pictures we took from that day.







Not sure if we're doing it again next year or not. I know Patrick said this was his last year, so we'll see what happens. Running is just not his thing, so I'm proud of him for doing it with us the last two times when he really didn't want to.

I think that lunch was enough of an incentive to get him to do it this year. We love our Tito's!

Camp Pendleton Mud Run- 6/5/10

(I have so many things I want to write about regarding running and my plans to run the 2015 Dopey Challenge, but in order to focus on my future I want to embrace and share my running past... These race recaps were written for my original blog and have been added here for a view into how I came to where I am now.)

 

*Originally posted 1/23/12

 

I have only entered one 10K since I started running. I never really thought about it much, considering a 10K is only 6.2 miles and I had already completed 3.1. I guess the opportunity to enter a 10K just never really came up. At least not until my brother in law, Shawn, ran in the World Famous Camp Pendleton Mud Run in 2009.

He had entered in the race with a group through his work. We had gone to cheer him on. It looked awesome! As we waited at the finishing line, watching people swim through mud, Rachel and I knew that this was something we wanted to do and decided that we would enter the following year.

Sometime between his race in June and sign ups at midnight on January 1st we had also talked Patrick (my boyfriend at the time, now fiance) to enter with us. We didn't have enough people to sign up as a "team", so we signed up as individuals. But that didn't keep us from having fun with it.

 

 

I guess I didn't learn from the 5K I entered, but we didn't start training until about 2 weeks before the race. We kept saying we had plenty of time and then there wasn't a lot of time left. We trained as much as we could those two weeks though. It was the longest distance I had to train for and the most intense training my sister put me through. I hit so many mental and physical walls.

But it was worth it. In June 2010 we ran in the World Famous Mud Run. We had so much fun the day of the race. It was intense, but it was the most fun I've had while running. We were sprayed by fire hoses, swam across a lake, ran up "suicide hill", climbed over walls, crawled through tunnels and swam through mud pits. Who wouldn't have fun doing that?!?

From left to right: me, Patrick (my husband) and Rachel (my sister)

A nice cold beer really is the way to refresh after a run!