Now that I’ve woken up from my much-needed recovery nap 😉 …

The Opening Scene

It was a rainy and unseasonably cool morning as we drove to the parking lot site at 7:15 am for our day of reckoning. As the shuttle (i.e. school bus) transported us up long, winding, wooded hills, our sense of anticipation rose. We arrived 20 minutes or so later to see work friends waiting for others and we joined the group. The last of the crew arrived and we headed over to the tents to get our packets and hand over the waivers that essentially absolved the event organizers of any fault in the death, dismemberment, or disabilities (regardless of level of neglect) that might result from the dangerous mission on which we were all about to embark. We grinned in the face of death!

Then we herded into a holding area to wait 15 minutes for the next wave to begin. We cheered on the prior group as they threw up their Warrior Horns and were released through the gates of HELL (fire was literally shooting up on top of the start line).  Shortly thereafter … it was our turn. With a shout  of … “5 … 4 … 3 … 2 … 1” … WE ROARED AND WERE OFF!!! Jogging right into this massive, nearly vertical hill immediately in front of us, which kicked many a butt … but, we made it.  We survived the Warrior Dash (you can check out some of the obstacles that we faced here)!!

I’ll let the pics (and some captions ;)) tell the rest of the story.

So my girl Beck says to me this week, “You know there’s a best costume contest?!” Who said what now?!?! An idea emerges and begins to take form.

Another piece to the puzzle. Thank goodness for a free month of Amazon Prime and 2 day free shipping!!!

Amazon Prime strikes again!

It’s really coming together now. (Turns out, I like yellow nail polish.)

Oh yeah … now you see what’s happening here.

MINIONS!!!!!!!!

WE FOUND THE REST OF THE FAM!!!!

Oh … we were so pretty, young, and innocent then.

It was quicksand I tell you!!!! QUICKSAND!!!! WORST. OBSTACLE. EVER!

*muttering* radda radda radda radda …

We survived!!!!! Those overalls weighed a good 15 pounds after the quicksand fiasco. Literally, I felt them pulling me backwards. We had to be pulled out of the wet concrete because we could NOT move once we had to stop. People were literally pushing us further into the muck … it was crazy. Thank goodness for our saviors (the guys). — with Rebecca Fleming Robinson.

Yeah. It was like that.

My overalls were so heavy the straps were cutting into my shoulders. But, Warrior still!!!!

All “cleaned” up after 15 minutes of hose time!! We were so happy to be in a WARM car!!

WARRIOR Victory meal!!! Yeah. It went down like THAT. I think we were allowed a cheat meal ;).

That was a pretty dang cool way to get Day 167 of 365 Days of Fitness done ;). The muscles will need that hot yoga tomorrow!! Felt a Charlie horse almost kick in a few moments ago when I bent my legs up to take off my socks!!! Ate a banana with the quickness!! None of that!!

#thatisall