Camp Pendelton 2008 10K Mud Run, me (in blue) after the last mud pit. THAT I HAD TO CRAWL THROUGH UNDERNEATH LOW-HANGING FLAGS. (p.s. Marines, I saw you slapping many a lady’s heinie as we hauled ourselves out of the trenches, why not mine? I would have feigned offense but now I am actually offended. Is my bottom so unslappable?).
Me, crossing the finish line with my coworkers (why does it look like I am 3 mos. preggers?)!
I think until I did this run (I know, not that long, only 6.2 miles), I had never thought of myself as a runner. I mean, I JOG, a lot, usually three times a week or so, but mainly as a booty-size control mechanism and I (thought) I was never any good at it. I figured I was the same as in high school track, where I was usually just grateful not to be last.
Which is why, 30 minutes before the Mud Run started, I was seriously considering faking food poisoning.
But I did it! I ran up 2 miles of hill, I slogged through INCREDIBLY STINKY mud pits, I scaled a 5′ wall (at only 5’2″ myself), and our team hit 9th in our division. We weren’t last, not even close.
I AM SO HAPPY!
My biggest fear in this all was letting my teammates down, being the one who held them up at the finish line, but I didn’t.
Apparently, I don’t suck. I can run! I can really run!
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You do not look pregnant, you freak! Except that at three months, women often don’t show at all, so I guess maybe. You actually look more like Paula Abdul in that waterfall video, where she totally stretched out the film to make herself look skinny. Except you don’t have to stretch the film.
Anyway, I’m super proud to know someone who did that. Any chance you were wearing a law/legal related item of clothing? This could have deterred even the most determined misogynist. (This is when Mike would be chanting “fake feminist!” by the way.)
So impressed!
Congratulations! I would like to be a runner but I’m a wimp.
Camp Pendleton–isn’t North Carolina (at least the bits not in Jacksonville) just beautiful?!
Whoops-Pendleton is in California. Lejeune is the one I was thinking of. D’oh.
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