I'm alive!

I realize it looks like I fell of the face of the earth. Time to update you all on everything that's been going on.

First, Iron runner! I did a 5k with my triathlon class that had 15 obstacles. It was a lot more grueling than I expected. Since it was at the coast, it was incredibly hot. The first 3 kilometers were basically all running with two or three obstacles spread throughout. There was one stand that handed out warm water during that portion and I was dying. Finally, my team arrived at a water obstacle and it was absolutely amazing. The water was freezing cold and we had to climb in and pull ourselves under cages. Our heads were still above water but it was hard to breath because the water was frigid. Some other obstacles included army crawling under logs and barbed wire, jumping through tires, swimming in the ocean, and climbing up a rock wall. I was proud that I was one of the only girls to master the monkey bars; the rings on the other hand... fell after the first one.

There was a large concave wall and of course I have no arm muscles so I doubted that I could get up. All of the guys just ran up, got a hold of the ledge and hoisted their bodies over. Ha! You should have seen me. I fell approximately 10 times and by fell I mean slid on my face and stomach and tumbled down. It was a little painful but I finally made it up due to the help of a teammate and a random man. As I hung on the wall I lifted my leg to the random mad and said, "Ayudame por favor" (help me please) and he grabbed my leg and helped fling me over the wall. Without them there was NO WAY I would have gotten up. Luckily, the other side was a slide into a pool of water. At the end of the race there was a voucher for a free beverage connected to our running numbers. Can you guess what it was...water, no... Gatorade, no... Powerade,no. It was Pilsner beer. That's right ladies and gentleman. I just ran a 5k and have bloody arms and knees and they tried to give me a free beer. I gladly gave away my voucher and hunted down the water.

The ground was super hot as we crawled under the logs

Monkey bars

First wall, I got up this one on my own