We taped up our oldest running shoes to make them mud-ready and hit the course with a couple thousand other people. As I told Mr. Tooth via text post race, it was 80% hills and 20% mud! I've never been so happy that I made myself do those miserable hill sprints in the weeks leading up to the race. It paid off. I think this race was the perfect reminder that even if my everyday training is tedious or painful it's so worth it in the end.
Sarah texted me with our results this morning. There were a quite a few bottlenecks on the course so our usual race pace of a 9-10 minute mile was significantly increased. Also, running through mud is so much harder than it looks... So slippery and sticky. I am so in awe of the US Marines who train on this course all the time.
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