The Dirty Dash

Have you ever heard of the Dirty Dash? It's awesome! The website begins like this:

Have you ever said to yourself, "Marathons are too easy and Triathlons are for sissies?"

We haven't either. . .those races are really hard. Think about it. . .the first person to run a marathon died. He DIED! . . .and he probably
didn't even have fun along the way!

Well, let us introduce you to the new race in town. . .THE DIRTY
DASH. This race puts all other races to shame. The Dirty Dash is a
mud run obstacle course where a military boot camp meets your inner five-year-old's fantasy and subsequently converts boy to man and then. . .man to swine.

It was great! It's a 10K run/obstacle course where you run a little and then stop for an obstacle every 3/4 mile or so. You sludge through above-the-knee deep mud pits with the best mud I've ever seen. (Do you know how well a person floats in really good mud? Jason does!) You climb over huge hay bales, slide down a 75 ft long slip-n-slide, scale 5-6 ft walls, crawl through muddy tubes, walk across balance beams and climb ladders. There is a promo video here, if you're interested.

Did I mention there also a piglet plunge? Yep! Coleman did the one mile kids version including some of the same obstacles. It was glorious!

Coleman and Jason at the finish line of the piglet plunge. Doesn't it look like a four year old boy's dream?

No, Reese did not participate. She was merely a spectator who sat too close to the finish line mud pit where some of the more zealous participants did belly flops and cannon balls into the mud. Reese was not happy about being so dirty.


This picture doesn't do the mud justice. We were covered.



This is one of the last obstacles. You can see the slip-n-slide on the left and a couple of the walls on the right. If you are lucky enough to live in a place where they host the dirty dasy you should try it!