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A co-worker of mine told me of this race where a two person team run, bike and complete a series of obstacles. Asked if I was interested and I said sure. Told my wife about it and she wanted to do it too. So my roommate teamed up with my co-worker, and my wife and I teamed up.
The race happens all across the country; it is called Muddy Buddy. http://www.muddybuddy.com/ Each team has one bike. There is an obstacle at each mile (although some sections seemed shorter than others ). After completing the obstacle, the biker starts running and the runner finds the bike and starts biking. This goes on until you come to the end, where each team has to crawl through a long mud pit together. Ours was more freezing cold dirty water but it was still fun
The first obstacle was a balance beam. Second was cargo net up and over a railing (all of about 6 tall), third was a low wall (I was almost able to jump right over it w/out touching it), fourth was a cargo net up a big inflatable slide, and the last well thats the mud pit.
Afterwards there are showers (hoses hooked to a fire hydrant) and then the beer tent!
Apparently some people dress up in costume, and its not just because LAs was right before Halloween they do it at other ones earlier in the year too.
I highly suggest that anyone who is interested do it. The obstacles are VERY easy, the runs are next to nothing, and the biking was simple. I was amazed at how most people were walking the simplest stuff!
We did it just for fun this year, but next year my roommate and I are going to enter it to win it and I think we have a VERY good chance! Anyway picture time
Pre-race:
Wife and I
Roommate and Co-worker
All of us:
2000 participants:
These two were, well you know
Goofing around before the race:
Shes the runner, Im the biker whatever you start off doing you do more of so I started biking:
But she does like biking:
Didnt get any shots at the first obstacle because I was running to the next one however my wife couldnt find the bike after the first one so I had plenty of time at the second one.
Second obstacle Cargo Net:
Even the big boys came out to play:
She actually smelled pretty good:
To show the total lack of bike skills lots of walking going on here:
At this point the cheapo disposable camera we had ran out of pictures but had the digital waiting for me at the end of the race so time to skip to the end:
I feel like such a stud:
Wait why is my wife leaning into him like that:
After a shower it was off to the beer garden, which was strategically positioned next to the mud pit
These two got boos for not getting dirty enough:
These two were great, although we were all cheering for the hare:
Unfortunately it was a staggered start and co-ed teams were in the middle, and we didnt try real hard so we did not get a lot of time in the beer garden so we took the party to a bar:
I highly suggest this for a good fun race...
A co-worker of mine told me of this race where a two person team run, bike and complete a series of obstacles. Asked if I was interested and I said sure. Told my wife about it and she wanted to do it too. So my roommate teamed up with my co-worker, and my wife and I teamed up.
The race happens all across the country; it is called Muddy Buddy. http://www.muddybuddy.com/ Each team has one bike. There is an obstacle at each mile (although some sections seemed shorter than others ). After completing the obstacle, the biker starts running and the runner finds the bike and starts biking. This goes on until you come to the end, where each team has to crawl through a long mud pit together. Ours was more freezing cold dirty water but it was still fun
The first obstacle was a balance beam. Second was cargo net up and over a railing (all of about 6 tall), third was a low wall (I was almost able to jump right over it w/out touching it), fourth was a cargo net up a big inflatable slide, and the last well thats the mud pit.
Afterwards there are showers (hoses hooked to a fire hydrant) and then the beer tent!
Apparently some people dress up in costume, and its not just because LAs was right before Halloween they do it at other ones earlier in the year too.
I highly suggest that anyone who is interested do it. The obstacles are VERY easy, the runs are next to nothing, and the biking was simple. I was amazed at how most people were walking the simplest stuff!
We did it just for fun this year, but next year my roommate and I are going to enter it to win it and I think we have a VERY good chance! Anyway picture time
Pre-race:
Wife and I
Roommate and Co-worker
All of us:
2000 participants:
These two were, well you know
Goofing around before the race:
Shes the runner, Im the biker whatever you start off doing you do more of so I started biking:
But she does like biking:
Didnt get any shots at the first obstacle because I was running to the next one however my wife couldnt find the bike after the first one so I had plenty of time at the second one.
Second obstacle Cargo Net:
Even the big boys came out to play:
She actually smelled pretty good:
To show the total lack of bike skills lots of walking going on here:
At this point the cheapo disposable camera we had ran out of pictures but had the digital waiting for me at the end of the race so time to skip to the end:
I feel like such a stud:
Wait why is my wife leaning into him like that:
After a shower it was off to the beer garden, which was strategically positioned next to the mud pit
These two got boos for not getting dirty enough:
These two were great, although we were all cheering for the hare:
Unfortunately it was a staggered start and co-ed teams were in the middle, and we didnt try real hard so we did not get a lot of time in the beer garden so we took the party to a bar:
I highly suggest this for a good fun race...
