At the beginning of this year, a group of us girls signed up to do the Warrior Dash. The Warrior Dash is a 5K race with obstacle courses throughout the race. I really didn't know what I was getting myself into, and at the time, I was still so overweight from being pregnant. I had just started working out and I was very out of shape. But I knew that I had several months to get myself into shape and this would be a good goal to work towards.
If you look at the Warrior Dash website, you will see that it is a crazy fun race. People dress up! Well, when we saw that people dress up, we started brainstorming about what we could do. Sariah, who is a theater major, put together this crazy ensemble!
Hot Warrior Mamas was our theme!
Here we are right after we all got into costume. We had so much fun laughing at each other. Seriously, my hair has not been this big since the 80's!
Now, we are at the race and the adrenaline is kicking in!
After the race! We are wet, muddy and cold! But what an accomplishment!
Highlights from the race:
Lots of muddy trails through the woods where we just slid down hills on our bums!
Pulling myself up a mud hill with a rope and losing my grip at top and sliding all the way back down, screaming, "No! That did not just happen!"
Swimming through a green, slimy pond where I almost had a panic attack.
Jumping over fire at the end of the race. We split up four and four. We were all holding hands and were going to jump over the burning tires together. As we were running toward the fire, I let go of my fellow hot warrior mama's hand. You see, I didn't want to bring anyone down into the flames and I didn't want to be brought down.
Coming home and seeing my children's face when they saw my frizzed out pigtails.
Landon, for days, kept asking, "mommy, what happened to your hair?" "You jumped over fire?"
This race was so much fun and we all want to do it again next year!
