Ma libu Spartan Race

This past Saturday was the Malibu Spartan Race! I signed up to run it with a few friends so we formed a team. Death, Destruction, Mayhem AND BEER!

Death Destruction Mayhem AND BEER

AND BEER!

I took the Race as my "running workout" It was only a 5k but I figured it would do as a workout since it had obstacles. I had no idea what I signed up for! It was very hard to "run" the whole thing. I want to say 80% of it was all incline and the other 20% was a steep down hill. In addition to the obstacles in between. There was hills, monkey bars, cargo rope, walls, lakes with freezing water up to your neck, buckets of cement, barbwire, rocks, water, mud, sand, gravel. fire anything "Spartan" you can think of. I may be exaggerating a bit but see for yourself http://www.spartanrace.com/. Oh and for any obstacle you did not complete you had to drop and do 30 burpies. I think I would of much rather just do the burpies would have been more less painful.

Well after huffing and puffing the outcome wasn't so bad although I did expect to do better than I actually did. I placed 68 in my age group, 326 for all women and 1724 overall my time was 01:10:53.1 so I guess it wasn't so bad. I do have plenty of ugly battle wounds but the sense of accomplishment takes the pain from the bruises and the cuts! I will admit that during the race I did think on how in the hell I planned on running 26 miles when I was struggling to do 3. But I guess we just have to wait and see on Feb 5, 2012!

Pix from the race

Victory

Team after Completion