THE STAMPEDE 2012

 

I love they turn it into a festival atmosphere! All kinds of stalls and live entertainment!

 

Our clean before photo haha All excited to get muddy!!

was so proud of mel as it was her first obstacle race.. She did really well trying to keep up with me!

I was giggling everytime we came across mud all i would hear from behind me was "yuck...gross..."

You'll get used to it =) 

 

 

TOTALLY SMASHED IT!!

Finished in 1hr 50 minutes!

10kms and 28 obstacles..

 

 

The obstacles were mostly quite easy and i would have loved to see more!

The location ended up having to be changed a few weeks before the event for some random reason so im guessing thats why it was a little lame in the obstacle scene!

 

My favourite moment of the day!

There was a big line up for the long ropes that went all the way to the bottom.. and i was sure i could get up theone with only 1/3 of rope hanging down.. so i gave it a go!

Easily got the rope and managed to climb up the top! It was a little tricky climbing over the top haha and i did it all on my knees for some reason so i had wicked bruises the next day! haha

The 50m slip and slide! This was alot of fun until the bottom and you smash into the lake and your brain gets pushed out your nose haha Mel wanted to drown so the hot lifesavers would rescue her haha

 

Fire pit! i got excited when i saw the firetrucks! but it was just logs of fire you had to jump over.

Still i guess some people would be scared of fire so might be challenging for them..

 

The last 5kms was alot of bush running.. along trails up and down rocky hill tracks and a few obstacles..

 The last obstacle barbed wire mud pit.. the one at tough bloke was so much harder.. this one was quite shallow and watery.. i got a few dirty looks when i overtook a few people who were going far too slow for my liking haha

 Quite easily survived! I love these things! I turn into a crazed maniac and just take things full pelt.. i dont think we stopped running that many times and none of the obstacles scared me. HOLY SHIT! there was an ice bath! that was pretty intense! it was about 4m long? and you had to go up and over these logs while walking through a pit of ice up to your armpits! i wanted tot ake a photo of it but it was through a fence and i couldnt be bothered navigating around haha

Finally burning some decent calories!

 

So keen to do it again next year! They sent around an email for early bird tickets! Im going to create a team! Called JUST DO IT!! haha