We all drove up on Friday. A good amount of people in the group raced on Saturday and when they finished they were done for! Man everyone looked beat up and dead tired. I had a chance to walk around the course but I still had NO IDEA what to expect for my first Spartan. Then it was Sunday, my chance to do this thing! Well I was going to try and go out with a group of people I knew, they said they were going to go out at 8:45 but I got there at 8:33 from the bathroom and they were gone...they left with the 8:30 heat...damn! I was going to have to do this alone. I get going and I hear Dennis and Chads voice in the background, I wasn't sure why they would be behind me but I knew it wouldnt be for long they are way faster than me. They actually ended doing the WHOLE thing with me (minus a few obstacles). What a HUGE BLESSING! That course would have been horrible by myself. I must admit if Chad told me keep moving, slow progress is progress, keep moving one foot in front of the other, you're doing great, etc. I may have pushed him down that steep mountain. Not really, I appreciated it but they weren't even racing it and Chad and Dennis were WAY ahead of me on all the climbs and this was nothing for them.
Everytime I turned around Dennis was handing me something else to drink or take...after I had consumed it I finally asked haha. He had more homeostasis pills than I did so I got one or two of those every 30 minutes and Generation UCAN. That was miserable I failed the spear throw...so 30 burpees, I got to the rope climb and didn't have enough strength to move an inch up it...so with the group all around me at this point I did my 30 burpees and continued on. Next the traverse wall, I was almost to the end and with my whole body shaking I slipped...30 more burpeees on the second to last obstacle. I was to the finish! I had never been so happy to see a finish line in my life at that point.
I guess this all sounded horrible but let me go over what was great about it:
I had two great people with me the whole time who helped me more than they will ever know.
I killed all the other obstacles, log carry, walls, log toss, farmers drag, reverse wall, etc...I accomplished way more than I failed.
I build a good amount of muscle that day haha I was sore for the next week!
I burned over 2,000 calories!!
And as Dennis says no matter how many times you climb Mount Trashmore that will never be a mountain.
This race also taught me a good amount about myself; if you have the drive you can complete and accomplish things. Everyone has to start somewhere in life.
Everytime I turned around Dennis was handing me something else to drink or take...after I had consumed it I finally asked haha. He had more homeostasis pills than I did so I got one or two of those every 30 minutes and Generation UCAN. That was miserable I failed the spear throw...so 30 burpees, I got to the rope climb and didn't have enough strength to move an inch up it...so with the group all around me at this point I did my 30 burpees and continued on. Next the traverse wall, I was almost to the end and with my whole body shaking I slipped...30 more burpeees on the second to last obstacle. I was to the finish! I had never been so happy to see a finish line in my life at that point.
I guess this all sounded horrible but let me go over what was great about it:
I had two great people with me the whole time who helped me more than they will ever know.
I killed all the other obstacles, log carry, walls, log toss, farmers drag, reverse wall, etc...I accomplished way more than I failed.
I build a good amount of muscle that day haha I was sore for the next week!
I burned over 2,000 calories!!
And as Dennis says no matter how many times you climb Mount Trashmore that will never be a mountain.
This race also taught me a good amount about myself; if you have the drive you can complete and accomplish things. Everyone has to start somewhere in life.