A day in the life of Leigha: Dirty 30-Zombie Edition

I sit here in insurmountable pain and think to myself..."self you should blog about this day so you don't soon forget the madness and sign up for another obstacle course race in the freezing cold." So here it goes..

In May of this year Kaytie and I ran the normal Dirty 30. 15 obstacles, lots of mud, and not cold! It was fun! I really enjoyed it. It was difficult and I climbed over walls and through the mud and through a cold ice bath, but I did it and survived!

YAY! Happy Warm Mud Run!

So of course when the Dirty 30 came out and said they were doing a Zombie edition in October we signed up and convinced my friend Cheryl to do it too! Little did we know we would have a record low high for temperatures!

So the day arrives and its 44 degrees outside! Woo hoo! Let's do this! We get there and it's too cold to get out of the car so we wait it out for a little bit, then we scoped out the start and finish lines. It's so cold. We make our way to the start line and the nervousness of what is about to happen sets in. A series of zombie songs play to pump up the crowd, then the event coordinator says a prayer in which he thanks the Lord for this opportunity to run from the undead. I'll let that one sink in for a bit. Finally, the race is on! Wait what is that just over the first hill? Oh good, a huge pool of muddy water and mud hill! Nice! Right out of the gate we are wet, freezing and muddy. We continue on this insane 5K dodging zombies, climbing over HUGE hay bales, dodging more zombies, climbing over a wall, more zombies, some crazy huge staircase thing, zombies, crawling under barbed wire, zombies, mud pit, zombies, I think I am forgetting some, more hay bales, zombies, huge slide that leads to a watery pool of mud, and finally the finish line where we climb over a mud hill into the final watery pool of mud. I am so frozen by this point that I can't feel my legs or my hands or my torso for that matter! And to top it off at the finish line my sweet darling husband was LAUGHING at my failed attempt to finish without falling in the water multiple times.

Fine, we did it we finished the race!! YAY! The zombies stole all my flags and technically I was infected at the end, but who cares. It was over and I wanted to warm up, well, after we got our free beer! Okay so we get to the car and it is way too cold to make it back to the porta potties to change. We sure has heck weren't going to use the rinse off station. So concealed by the truck doors (sorta) and towels we tried to take off our nasty wet clothes and put on dry ones. I couldn't feel my body! Trying to get a wet long sleeve shirt and pants off was PAINFUL!! I put my shirt on backwards and couldn't turn it around because I couldn't feel my arms. I have never been so stinkin cold in my life! I hope I don't get pneumonia!!

So we get home, I take a hot shower, and I was feeling pretty good UNTIL... I text Cheryl and ask her if she is sore. She say not really... I'm sorry what did she say? Not really!? I am limping around the house and my legs look like someone beat me with a bat! So I text Kaytie and she says she is extremely sore. I feel a little better with this information, but still! Who says NOT Really when referring to the torture that we had just endured?!? Wonder Woman. That's who.

Enjoy these pictures! I am going to go enjoy some more ibuprofen!