Robin flew from Winnipeg to come and do the beast with us. It was Jordan, Robin, Liam, and Jarom. It was Jarom's first Beast. Look how skinny the kid is. I'm now sure how he did it. He beat me though.
Some how I let James talk me into doing a Tough Mudder. James and Emily had told me about the crazy obstacles they had, ie being electrocuted at the end.
Emily drove us out to the race. It was a miserable day. It had been raining for days and today was no exception. Emily dropped us off and it was an obstacle to get from the muddy parking lot to the start. We met up with some of the Dukeshires' friends who we were going to run with. All I have to say is I'm not sure who's idea of fun this race is. They had obstacles like the arctic enema, the gas chamber and yes getting electrocuted at the end. The arctic enema is one of the first obstacles. You go down a sloped board into ice cold water. There's a board so you have to go right under the water. Our experienced team mates told us to take off as much of our clothes as possible and for the girls to go last so we didn't get cold waiting. It was so cold!! I came out screaming and got out as quick as I could. As the day went on I kept getting colder and colder. One of the girls that was with us was shivering so bad. Her husband wanted her to quit but she wouldn't. I talked to her and told her there was no shame in quitting. She really wasn't doing well. She ended up getting taken out. The race was in Drumheller and part of it were so pretty and the course was really challenging. The only part that I liked was having to go up and down a really step hill. You couldn't run up or down. You had to use a rope and scramble up and down. So lets get to the end. The last obstacle is the electrocution one. You have to run through this area that has thin ropes coming down that have electricity running in them. Emily and James had warned me not to hold hand with anyone going through it. If you do this and the person next to you get shocked then you do too. Some how, the group that I ended up with (our group had spread out) persuaded me to hold hands. Yup, the person next to you gets shocked and so do you! Two seconds in to the obstacle and the person next to me is thrown to the ground. Another two seconds and the person on the other side of me gets thrown about three feet forward. I tried to slowly go around the hanging strands of death but still got shocked. Seriously what is up this obstacle??? We finished the race but if you can believe it, it's not timed and there are not medals! Lame Also, no pictures. |
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