Dirty Dash

The dirty dash is a 10K obstacle coarse where military boot camp meets muddy madness. Last weekend myself and 19 of my fabulous neighborhood friends took on the challenge.

Of course being the fun friends that we are, we decided to make a weekend get away out of our race.

After we said good-bye to the husbands and kids we were off to dinner in Park City.

We had to stop and get a treat before heading to the condo. The night was filled with hot tubing, laughter, and lots of talking.

This is the whole group of Muddy Mommas before the big race.

As the race started we had no idea what lay ahead. First a dash up a muddy hill while being sprayed by an irrigation sprinkler, stacked hay bails to leap, crawling through large pipes, climbing a series of walls surrounded by soggy slippery mud, leaping ditches, running through streams, a nice run through a muddy stinky marsh, a giant slip and slide, and a crawl through a giant mud pit. All that with a lot of running in between. It was a blast!

We paused for a picture half way through the race where our families were cheering us on. Lance and the kids made great cheerleaders!

I must say this was a first. Swimming in mud makes for some serious clean up.

We finished strong completely covered in mud. I love my neighborhood and the fun friends I get to live by.

Thanks Janae and Melissa for being our fabulous organizers, Trish and John our skilled photographers, Jill and Judy our t-shirt designers, and Steve our trustee neighborhood doctor - for making the weekend great and keeping us all in shape!