a few weeks ago; me, ashley, liz, paige, paige's friend, and carly did the dirty dash. it's a 5k up in midway, utah. none of us had done a race before..... (us being liz, ash, carl, and i) haha, paige has done too many marathons to count. we all signed up in london, and didn't think anything about it. then we got home... and all got busy doing things in utah & kinda took a break from the 4 months of traveling. haha.. so you can only imagine how ready we all were for this race......
luckily, we all just did it for fun and didn't care about anything the whole time. we were laughing so hard the whole time. the race consists of a lot of obstacles... like: going up a hill of slippery mud, jumping over haystacks, climbing through things, jumping over tires, climbing over big wood walls (so slippery), a slide, running through total mud.. at least a foot deep, and at the end, a pool of mud. here are a few of my favorite parts: 1. shoving subway in our mouths on the way up to midway (we had to get energized hahaha) 2. our underwater cameras-- that we had to keep scrubbing mud off the screen so it would actually get a clear picture- the pictures are hilarious even though they aren't very good quality. i don't have the pictures on my comp yet, but luckily paige's friends husband took a few photos for us on his phone for us. also, we got some pictures from flo fotos who was up there taking pictures. 3. when ash's feet got stuck in the mud. and when she tried to get her feet out of the mud pile, her socks & shoes stayed in the mud while her bare feet finally made their way out. we found the shoes.... but her socks are still lost in there. 4. oatmeal pies (love you ash haha) 5. running next to horses & taking pictures of liz by them. 6. the big blow up slide towards the end of the race, where we all got off the slide and have never felt more uncomfortable. you know when you go down a big water slide & your bathing suit ends up giving you the worst wedgie? yup that, x's 20. (just think muddy water & dirt everywhere) TMI? 6. the end of the race when you jump in a pool of mud. and i look over and see liz floating in her back... ENJOYING it. hahahaha. 7. carl hating the mud pool at the end & couldn't get out of there fast enough. 8. the ice needle shower that we took after. numb toes & ash getting told by a random girl that she had mud all in & by her nose. um thanks for telling us? 9. finding more reasons why i love these girls so much. we have already decided that we are going to make this a tradition. so so much fun & too hilarious! 10. the dirt i found under my nails and behind my ears for a week after.
until next year....
