Run A Muck Madness

I'm sitting here on my sofa, with wet hair, in my onesie.... absolutely shattered!! As you can tell from the title of this post, I completed the Run A Muck challenge today! I'm sure you've heard of it before, but if not, it's exactly what it sounds like, running through muck. A 5k obstacle course of muck! And as you'll see by our faces, there was no shortage of muck!

This picture was obviously before I started :) 

In the weeks leading up to the challenge I had watched videos about it on YouTube and looked at the course map just to see what I was getting myself in for! There's me thinking I'd do a few obstacles and have a nice little run as well! I may have slightly underestimated how much muck was involved!

The course was wet, mucky and then wet some more! I was flinging my body over bales of hay, climbing on top of tyre hills, just to slide back down into a wet mucky ditch and even tredging through deep ponds and under dark tunnels. There was tarzan ropes to swing over wet ditches, tall slides that led straight into murky waters, rope walls to climb over and then rope nets to crawl under.

There was no avoiding the muck or water at all, but it was one of the most exciting things I have ever done! I was covered in muck from the very first obstacle but just had the embrace it as I knew it was only going to get worse! And after a spectacular fall and a mouth full of muck  I managed to finish the course in about an hour!

The course was tough enough but very do-able. My short little legs often struggled to get up on the bales of hay but someone always helped me and there was constant cheers of support along the way! This was the first time I've ever done anything like it but I'll definitely  be back there next year! 

Now I'm getting back in the shower because I'm pretty sure I have more muck to wash off!

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