Old Man defeats Warrior Dash

Warrior Dash rocks. This the third year in a row that I have run in the Charlotte Warrior Dash and have successfully completed it each year. I run in the 50-59 year old division. This race is a 5k run with challenging obstetrical spaced through out the race.



The 5k run is challenging enough, but to add the obstetrical along the way steps the race up to a new level. Obstetrical like cargo nets, fire jump, rope bridge, chain bridge, car climb, other man made obstetrical that must be traversed to continue. There are several other obstetricals along the way and the race ended with a pit of mud that took 5 minutes to get through. The video below is me climbing the rope wall. This video was shot using my GoPro® camera which shot some awesome footage.

This is the fire break that had two fire walls in a row that had to be jumped. You had to have some speed to make it over without singeing the hair on your legs.
















The final obstetrical that you had to get through was the mud pit. This pit was 3 foot of the thickest sticky mud you have ever seen. To top it off, there was very low hanging barbed wire over the pit. I figure it was about 60 feet long pit of this mud to had to get through. The picture below was shot from my GoPro® camera before I got in. There was a lady in front of my that lost her shoe when she got in and could not pull it out. She gave up trying to get the shoe and left it behind.

 Just so you can get a perspective of the race, here is my before and after shot. One of me at the starting line, the other at the end if the race.


             Clean me, at the starting line

              Dirty me, at the finish line

I can not say enough great thing about my GoPro® camera. Not a drop of water or mud got into my camera case. And as you can see from the pictures, the camera and strap were caked with mud. After a good spraying down with the hose, it is back to new.




I look forward to this race every year. Next year my youngest daughter will be old enough to run it with me. She is looking forward to sharing this good time and challenge with me. I have another race coming up in November of this year that is another obstetrical/mud run that is 12 miles long. That is going to take some serious training to get ready for that. This old man is up for the challenge.





Special thanks to Catherine at Red Frog Events for working with me on permission to use the Warrior logo.