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[malibu]

I did the Warrior Dash today.

In 93 degree heat with humidity.

I am alive to tell about it. I was hoping to finish under 40 minutes, but the heat ended up making me fairly sick towards the end so I ended up walking the last 1/3 mile. But I finished all 12 obstacles, and survived with all limbs in tact, some road rash on my knees, a sunburn, and heat exhaustion. Took just under an hour but considering the weather was bordering on dangerous, I am just glad I finished and wasn'tt taken away in an ambulance as I saw some other people who passed out.

[Deleted]

Uh. Congrats?

[pittsmcgee]

Nice job! You're a beast!

[malibu]

LOL thanks. I signed up for the one in September assuming it would be cooler. I was wrong.

[venice2007]

Good job

[Deleted]

Nice work

[eb777888]

You rock!!! Congrats!

[nahoku]

Way to go, Malibu!

[malibu]

Sept 7, 2013 20:36:35 GMT -5 cjoy said:

Sept 7, 2013 20:31:52 GMT -5 @damnation said:

Uh. Congrats?

It's not a question.

Congrats, malibu!

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You should do it with me next year!

[bonquiqui]

Awesome job!

[zoidberg]

Nice! I freaking love those obstacle course races, so fun.

[Deleted]

Sorry. You're right. That's an amazing feat. Hey, seriously, congratulations.

[malibu]

Sept 7, 2013 20:45:08 GMT -5 zoidberg said:

Nice! I freaking love those obstacle course races, so fun.

They really are. This one was way harder than last year. A lot of cargo net climbing - killer arm workout!

[goaskalice]

That's amazing! Well done.

[eb777888]

How do you train for it? Do you just do your regular exercises and hope for the best or do you specifically do stuff to train for it?

I see a lot of people on my FB do it but it's a little intimidating to me because I don't know much about it. Can you school me on this?

[ElizabethBennet]

Sept 7, 2013 20:31:52 GMT -5 @damnation said:

Uh. Congrats?

What? Really?


Anyway, CONGRATS Malibu!

[malibu]

Sept 7, 2013 21:45:53 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

How do you train for it? Do you just do your regular exercises and hope for the best or do you specifically do stuff to train for it?

I see a lot of people on my FB do it but it's a little intimidating to me because I don't know much about it. Can you school me on this?

I did the 5K portion of Couch to 10K. That was mostly it, I started doing strength work about a month ago and was glad I did as there were way more obstacles that required upper body strength this year. I learned the hard way to train outside - last year all I dd was treadmill and was totally shocked at how hard the outside terrain was. I should have started earlier than I did, but even so, the heat kind of knocked all goal time attempts out. Almost everyone in my "wave" that took off was walking by the end. The average finish time was between 40-45 minutes, when I did it last year (60s and windy), the average was in the 20-30 minute range.

Wow, sorry about the tangent. I basically made sure I could run the 5K outside and did strength training to get through the obstacles. I also thought I'd be the big fat chick surrounded by people in really good shape, but there were a variety of sizes and abilities doing it. Plus, you can skip obstacles if you can't do them.

[eb777888]

I totally get it. Working out outside is an entire different thing. I realized that about 30 seconds into my first outdoor run. Even on a nice day, it's at least twice as hard. Good for you for finishing! I'm inspired, maybe I'll check it out.