MudRun Report!
Well --- according to the results I finished in 1:32:05 ----- Yikes! That’s a LONG time for a 10k --- not that time mattered in this event. I came in 87th out of the 186 women who ran the race --- not a bad place at all.
It was a TOUGH race – tougher than I thought. I knew it would be cross-country, but I was envisioning a casual run through the forest, relatively flat – with the only real hazards being having to watch out for the odd stray tree root. I WAS WRONG!
As we got going there was a bottle-neck run through the forest --- sooooooo many people which made running basically impossible. Within 5 minutes my shoes were wet and muddy – oh well, it’s all part of the fun. We opened up into a field with a relatively wide trail and the runners began to space out a bit. I ran pretty consistently for the next half-hour or so until we hit fields where the trail was just a narrow strip through the field --- the people in front of me were walking so I had no choice but to stop and walk a little up hill. The worst part of running through those fields was the uneven terrain --- there were parts that I was afraid to run because the dips were idiosyncratic and deep enough to cause damage if they were misjudged.
I was worried about the obstacles before the race but they weren’t too bad at all --- ramps and a small wall to climb over --- the ramps were slippery but totally not worth the worry at all. The river crossing was…..cold! Rib-deep water about 20 metres across. It wasn’t so bad because I had shoes on of course – but I wouldn’t have wanted to be in that water without shoes on!
All in all it was a fun race. My only complaint is that none of the kilometres were marked – which made it VERY difficult to judge my pace – when I hit the hour and ten minutes mark I kept expecting to hit the finish any minute --- but it never seemed to come – that was tough mentally.
It was well organized though – and we got Advil in the swag bags – which was awesome because my hip was totally acting up that day – gotta love those free drugs!
Would I do it again? Maybe. I’d want to be better trained and in trail-running shoes ---- it’d be super fun to do it on a team next year.
Okay – that’s my Mudrun report! As for below – a picture’s worth a thousand words!
(Photo By: Toby Cockcroft)
It was a TOUGH race – tougher than I thought. I knew it would be cross-country, but I was envisioning a casual run through the forest, relatively flat – with the only real hazards being having to watch out for the odd stray tree root. I WAS WRONG!
As we got going there was a bottle-neck run through the forest --- sooooooo many people which made running basically impossible. Within 5 minutes my shoes were wet and muddy – oh well, it’s all part of the fun. We opened up into a field with a relatively wide trail and the runners began to space out a bit. I ran pretty consistently for the next half-hour or so until we hit fields where the trail was just a narrow strip through the field --- the people in front of me were walking so I had no choice but to stop and walk a little up hill. The worst part of running through those fields was the uneven terrain --- there were parts that I was afraid to run because the dips were idiosyncratic and deep enough to cause damage if they were misjudged.
I was worried about the obstacles before the race but they weren’t too bad at all --- ramps and a small wall to climb over --- the ramps were slippery but totally not worth the worry at all. The river crossing was…..cold! Rib-deep water about 20 metres across. It wasn’t so bad because I had shoes on of course – but I wouldn’t have wanted to be in that water without shoes on!
All in all it was a fun race. My only complaint is that none of the kilometres were marked – which made it VERY difficult to judge my pace – when I hit the hour and ten minutes mark I kept expecting to hit the finish any minute --- but it never seemed to come – that was tough mentally.
It was well organized though – and we got Advil in the swag bags – which was awesome because my hip was totally acting up that day – gotta love those free drugs!
Would I do it again? Maybe. I’d want to be better trained and in trail-running shoes ---- it’d be super fun to do it on a team next year.
Okay – that’s my Mudrun report! As for below – a picture’s worth a thousand words!
(Photo By: Toby Cockcroft)
posted by Amanda at
6:33 AM
3 Comments:
Hey that race looked awesome! congrats on being #86 out of 187!! =)
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Anonymous, at 7:16 AM
Yes, congrats are in order.. I couldn't imagine wading through water as part of any run i'd do..
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yumke, at 1:55 PM
congraduations on the run...that was pretty courageous...it's good to mix up the fun.
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Anonymous, at 3:31 PM
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