Beautiful Backyard

We have two maple trees in the backyard and they look beautiful in the fall. Actually I love them in all the seasons. We will miss them in the new house a lot.

Warrior Dash

It started in Spring. One of my colleague came to my desk and asked me to google warrior dash and said, you like adventures, and you should do it. I checked the website and thought its tough; I am not that strong. After a month I guess, another colleague told me, she is doing Warrior Dash and if I want to join her. Rahul was also in the conversation and both of us thought, we will see after couple months. In between, I was not running regularly because of other commitments. Before one month, some of my responsibilities were over so I thought I should register. And if I register, I will have to work out. I registered myself and called Rahul to register. He also registered immediately.

Now the countdown was started and we insisted to increase stamina and fitness. We used to call each other everyday and ran together sometimes. Agraja used to check with me, how is it going and it was helping. Shri was giving lot of support by boosting me by words :)

Couple days before race, I was not sure I should go for race or not since Shri's certification exam was coming and he had to study. He said don't worry about me, you should do this race. On the day I told Shri not to come and study home. He wanted to come to cheer me but I stopped him.

On the way to race, I was feeling nervous and told Agraja about it. She told me, don't worry, skip some obstacles if you feel you can not do it but you can do it and you will do it. The ride was so cool, we three kept talking on various subjects and didn't know when the venue came. The traffic was jam near the event and we were panic but again Agraja's words made us calm. There was huge parking the corn fields and we have to take school bus to go to the event. We reached at the event in 15-20 min from parking lot. The environment was so charged, it was just fabulous. People with different costumes and with special race hats. My heartbeats were increased and I was excited and told my mind, Yes I can do it. I was happy that Rahul was with me.

The race started and first obstacle was going in the lake where water was more than 5 ft :) dirty muddy water :) I first went in and then held Rahul's hand and was floating. Then there was float on which you have to climb and then on the other side, jump into water and go on the other side of the lake. It was first scary but lot of fun.

Then had to run and second obstacle was a swamp. People were stuck in it and some had to throw their shoes and couple people got hurt so had to go to an emergency. It was chaotic. We crossed this and kept running.

Here are the  obstacles we did.

Obstacles

The video

Warrior Dash Video

Last 3 obstacles were near the race end and Agraja was waiting for us. We jumped over the fire and then there are difficult rope climbing and steep slide which ends in deep muddy water :)
I was scared but when I fell in water and came out, felt just awesome and wanted to do it again.

The last obstacle was crossing muddy Mayhem ans was very difficult, but we did it and ran towards the end of the race. We got the super medal :)

Just wow experience.

After that we went to DJ area where music was loud and three of us had blast.

                                   

We were very muddy and was difficult to go in car without bath so we went to a pond and dived into it. Everybody was doing that.

We changed our clothes and headed back home with great pride!!