The Mud Run 4/20

Chris and I just finished our first 5k Mud Run yesterday as a team.. Mucky Mom and Dirty Dad!  It was the Temecula Mud Run and Wine Festival (http://www.temecula-mudrun.com/). Now I'm not going to lie, I first read about this and saw that it included running, wine, and getting dirty with my husband.. My 3 most favorite things in life, and I was quite excited. ; ) Now, the hard part was convincing my husband to do his first race with me...

 

Chris has always been very healthy and fit from the lifetime in soccer and more recently by maintaining our house, huge yard and pool all by himself.  But I knew he needed some work on his cardio and breathing to get through a course like this one. So once I talked into doing the run we decided to work on our cardio by going on family hikes in Chino Hills State Park right up our street. It was so much fun for us to do this as a family and hiking up those hills, most of the time with the boys on our backs, was the ultimate training for both of us.

 

The Mud Run was crowded and HOT!  I think we were both having second thoughts when we arrived and considered going straight to the wine and beer tent.  But, once we got our numbers and saw the crowd getting pumped at the starting line, we quickly joined in behind the 10:00AM wave of runners.  The obstacles were SOOOO much fun, I seriously felt like I was a contestant on Survivor.  We stayed together the whole time and helped each other through the deep swamps, over the trees/mud mounds and muddy army crawls.  It was such a blast and experience completing the race as a team.  I would highly recommend it to anyone and we definitely plan on doing it again next year with more couples and family members!

 

 

Grandma Theresa watched Justus and took great pictures of us during the race.  When Dusty saw us climbing up the giant mud mound, he ran to us and wanted to climb it too.  So we pulled him up to the top with us and he finished running the last leg with us.

 

  

Super cute picture of little Justus running along side his Daddy.  He was just as proud and satisfied as we were crossing that finish line.  As I have mentioned in previous blogs, I fully support and encourage family fitness and will have both of my boys run in this race with us next year!