Alex the Warrior

We started our day *very* early this morning.  We woke up just before 4:00 so that we could hit the road by 4:30 for our 2.5 hour drive to a crazy fun obstacle course race called Warrior Dash  We were in the first wave at 8:00.  It was pretty chilly up there in the North Georgia Mountains!    Some of the obstacles included: walk/swim through a muddy lake, tire course (think football training), junkyard crawl, hurling ourselves over 4' walls and then under barbed wire X5, rope climb up a 20' vertical wall (that was a little scary...no safety net!), Cargo net climb, trail run through the mountains, army crawl through a blacked out crawl space, more trail running, horizontal cargo net crawl, sliding down a steep embankment on our tushies, mud crawl under barbed wire, another turn in the water but this time hurling ourselves over rolling logs and last but not least, jumping over logs set on fire not once, but twice (the jumping part twice, not setting the logs on fire twice!).  Did I mention that they watered the mountain trails down so we were running/slipping/falling in pure mud?  I know my list is out of order and I think I even left one or two obstacles out.  It was a *B*L*A*S*T*!  Alex wanted to do it again.  :)

On the shuttle bus from parking to the race course.

Five of us started, four of us finished.  :(  One of our
Warriors twisted his ankle on the very first part
of the run.

You can't really tell how much mud Alex
is wearing here.

She got a little scraped up on the
slide down into the mud pit.

Finished!  Notice we are in front of the first aid tent.