Mud Run

What can I say about today, It was much harder than they expected but they both can't wait to do it again. Christian finished his 1k in 28 minutes which was good seeing how he had to do over 20 obstacles, Dan finished in 42 minutes which was incredible. He said at the end that it was the hardest thing he has ever done in his whole life and he was very grateful he didn't do the 10k. If they do it again I will have to be better prepared because sitting in dirt with a 16 month old in 100 degree heat for 2 hours was not fun!

This was pre-race when they were nice and clean.

Christian liked that at every half mile mark of the race they had some kind of explosion, like bombs or trucks catching on fire. Ryan didn't really like the noise and Dan said it was a pain to run past it because it smelt of gas. Here Christian is waiting for Dan to run.

The boys wore bright blue shirts so that I could see them when they were running. Not a great idea since once they were muddy you couldn't really tell the color. Can you see Dan? His shirt now looks greenish!

Honestly these picture do not do justice to how bad Dan looked. This race completely kicked his butt and he has been drained all day. Dan has been running with a friend in the morning and normally they do between 5 and 7 miles and when he gets home he looks like he only ran around the block, well today you could tell he was whipped out!

Look at Christian's smile, he was so proud of Dan and was so excited to run his race. These next pictures are of Christian. Now this was called the 1k fun run, he doesn't look like fun to me.Christian needed help getting up from some of the pits so he grabbed this poor girl and then on the next one he grabbed the rope.

It was so gross watching him crawl in the muddy water!

He was so cute and sprinted to the finish line.

It was a great day and something our family will remember forever!