Run, Kat, Run - Do What in MUD?

The Rugged Maniac is an Obstacle Course 5K, in MUD!  There are 25 obstacles that you have complete while running a 5K.  I ran the race in Paoli Peaks, IN on the ski slopes, so it was up and down and up and down the slopes.  Some places running was impossible it was so steep! 

Some of the obstacles included: a mud pit with barbed wire over your head, iron rings to cross, seesaws covered in mud, walls to climb, fire to jump, creeks to cross, and so MUCH MUD!!!  To me it seemed like they put the easier obstacles first and they progressively got harder.  The first obstacle was a giant mud pit about knee deep that you had to walk through—several lost shoes in that one!  Then we went to walls to climb and mud to army crawl through.  The last obstacles were hard!  There was a 12 foot wall with 2 steps, needless to say you needed help to get over it.  And then there was the “wall” that was straight up covered in slimy mud.  The idea is that you get a good running start, run up the wall, catch the top ledge with your hands and hoist yourself over.  I tried two times and got so close each time but slid right back down the wall each time, making the bruise on my hip bone get larger and larger. 

It was fun!  It was muddy!  It was everything I had hoped for!  I have the bruises to prove it!