Getting a Little Dirty

Get your head out of the gutter. I am only talking about the dash - the DIRTY dash that is. This is my second time running it and let me tell you. It did not disappoint. Adam, my brothers, and our friends from Heber signed up months ago to run the dash and we had been gearing up since. And when I say gearing up... I mean talking about it... because none of us really prepared by getting in shape. Our racetime was 11:40. Sadly, Adam didn't get to run because that was draft day and he was still waiting on a call (sorry, Skinny... we will run it again in September when you are back home, who's in?!) but he rode up their and hung out like a champ. So here we are right before taking off...

Looking pretty clean, right? Well that wouldn't last long. The race went a little something like this. Up the muddy hill, around the bend, across the bridge, (this is about where they guys and girls split... they were clearly in better shape) over the hay bails, through the muddy mogels, around some trees, across some sketchy bridges, more mud, more hills, more mogels, this pit of muddy water with blue tubes you had to climb... I could keep going but at this point its a blur... and then finally to the 5K finish that ends in a slip'n'slide. Just kiddding.... we did the 10K! BACK to the race and down the hill. Watch for monkey bars, a foam piggy full of things to knock you down, the mud mines - they really did explode, walls to climb over, the military net, mud, mud, mud... it is all a blur again. Finally we make it to the slip'n'slide - for reals this time - and the 10K is nearly done. I got a little too much speed and almost died at the end. Then down the hill and through a rock filled water mud pit that gave me more scrapes than the whole raced combined - then the FINISH! 

 

Luckily we found the guys quickly. We stood in line. We got some photos taken. We got our bananas and snacks. Found Adam - I was so happy to hear he had been drafted! Tested a sports drink from a vendor. And then to the ice cold showers. So cold I got a brain freeze from the water on my head. Oh what a feeling. But I would recommend it. Not the shower... the shower sucked. But I am a cheapskate and I would take ice cold water over a $6 warm shower. I would recommend the Dirty Dash. And I will be doing it again. But next time I will make sure Adam can run it with me - because I like him best.

All The Things She Said

All the things she said, all the things she said, running through my head... please tell me you know that song. If not. You fail. If you do, congratulations - you will move on to the next level test of coolness.

There are so many things running through my head right now. Like a big blurrrrr and flash of light. And so I am writing them down to help me out. Readdddddyyyy. ANNNNND GO!

• The draft is this weekend. What the heck? How the heck did I marry an athlete? And how did he trick me into liking baseball so much? That is beside the point... because the draft is this week. And not only did I marry an athlete I married a man that will potentially make that his profession. I sort of freak out when I think about it and then Adam thinks I am crazy... but he thinks I am crazy in general so that doesn't matter too much.
• Talking about being crazy. Have you ever moved? I would assume you have because most people have at least once. Packing and unpacking is driving me crazy. I never realized what a pack rat I was until Adam told me we had to de-junk before we packed... because I didn't do that last time. So I brought a bunch of crapola with me from my single living quarters into our marriage. And this time I vow to have an organized home from the day we unpack.
• Because have you ever organized a home? Everyone on pinterest makes it look so easy... heck... my mom makes it look so easy. She always buys all these sorters and dividers at the dollar store. I wish I had inherited my mother's organizational genes... but nope, I got my dad's "lets make a pile" genes... 
• My parents are coming down this weekend. For the first time in many many years they don't have to spend their anniversary at one of my dance recitals or at Miss Idaho - last year they had Adam babysit my grandma so they could sneak out for an anniversary dinner - and this year they get to do whatever they want. And what are they doing? They are coming to hang out with my family so we can all go to a soccer game and run the Dirty Dash.
• I ran the Dirty Dash last year and it was so much fun I convinced people to run it with me again this year since my friends from last year are out and about living life in Canada and California. The only difference from last year to this year is I am even more out of shape. Luckily, my Dad's hip has been hurting, so I have a walking partner when needed and I don't have to slow anyone down.
• Annnd... now it is time I slow down. I want to tell you a few more things though. Mostly that you need to go read my friend Sam's brand new blog because she is what I like to call a high-ten-larious. And also that I died my hair blond and I am starting Insanity... I think that it is important you know those two things about me as well. And that wraps up today's thought process. Peace!