hooray!
hurrah!
yippee!
my tummy is a flurry of nerves and my head aches with excitement as i count down to my 11+-mile running obstacle course. as i reread the course list/map this morning, i laughed and gasped in shock 'n' awe:
- brokeball mountain: maneuver around massive stones
- kiss of mud: belly crawl under wire set only 8 inches from the ground
- death march: straight up red-graded ski run to the top of the mountain
- everest: slippery giant quarter pipe
- spider's web: climb over two cargo nets
- funky monkey: monkey bars greased with butter and a threatening ice cold lake below
- fire walker: run through blazing kerosene soaked straw; flames at least 4 feet high
- mystery obstacle--eek!
- cliff hanger: muddy mountain track
- berlin walls #1: scale a series of 12 foot high walls
- hold your wood: drag a log up a ski slope and then back down
- rockslide: downhill rocky slope
- berlin walls #2: another set of 12 foot high walls
- boa constrictor: crawl through a series of pipes in freezing, muddy water
- chernobyl jacuzzi: jump in and out of an icy mixture of assorted carcinogens
- underwater tunnels: bob underneath the above-water obstacles
- twinkle toes: cross a log bridge over another threatening freezing cold lake
- turd's nest: cross a fragile net
- devil's beard: low cargo net crawl
- log jammin': navigate over and under a series of logs
- bale bonds: insurmountable hay bales
- walk the plank: 15 feet high splash into a cold pond followed by a swim back out
- electroshock therapy: field of live wires; some carry a 10,000 volt of shock
to ready my mental toughness, i've been watching lots of training sequences from the rocky series--no one conquers the impossible like rocky:
so, that's what i'll be doing this weekend. what're your plans?
love truly,
kk
