.my sister ronnie came to visit.
.we LOVED it.
.we shopped. we laughed. we peed our pants. we shopped. we ran. we were sore. we spent money. we ate. we painted. we stayed up late. we just had a total blast.
.i am sad she is gone. but i have things i need to get done around the house. and the next 3 weeks are going to be craZy but fun, and exciting. there should be some fun posts comin. but for now, your going to laugh your way through this post and see how much fun we had.
.so i picked up my sister on tuesday november 5th. she texted me in the morning saying hopefully she will make her connecting flight because leaving salt lake they had some problems. apparently they had to de-ice the plane...they sprayed it on the wrong part of the plane, so it was coming in through the vents, so they all had to get off the plane, wait for it to clear and get back on. thankfully, she made it, and we picked her up around 2.
.saturday. we woke up. suited up in our outfits. had andrew drop us off. and walked out in public in our full-suited-one piece-footed batman pajamas. it was epic. we ended up running the 6K (4 miles) in 1 hour and 19 minutes....NOW, BEFORE you judge, let me tell you WHAT we had to do at all obstacles, and why it took so long. ALSO, i did NOT run at all before this...the last time i ran was back with my mother in law in june when we went to visit. . . so i was TOTALLY happy with the time, and my sister was pretty impressed with how i did (she runs all the time). so the obstacles were:
*Tires- after running, we had to go through tires, you know, you see football players do it. so we did that, my sister ronnie just about twisted her ankle doing it....we were maybe 5 minutes into the run. lol.
(p.s. i have no clue who is in these pictures, i just want to give you an idea of what we did)
*ICE COLD WATER- you had to walk through this "stream" that was muddy and went up about waist deep. once we went through that, we werent total fans of our costumes. but we had no choice. we just tried to get as much water out of them and continue running. there were 4 of these total throughout the race.
**BURPEES. oh my goodness. i about died when we came up to these. because you had to do 10 of these (not bad, right?...wrong) WITH A CINDER BLOCK! So you do a push up with your hands on the cinder block, than bring your feet to cinder block. than stand up and bring it to your chest, than raise above your head. TEN of these.
**TRENCHES- they dug these deep trenches and than covered them, so we had to go down, and crawl through these dark trenches. i stressed about these...it was HOT and you felt more and more hot just trying to crawl through these dark trenches and trying to get to the end.
(the picture below is seriously what it was like)
**LUNGES...While holding A TIRE. you had to hold a tire and do lunges around this LONG ridiculous circle...this was about 1/2 way through, and where it all went wrong...why?!!? because i split my costume right in the crotch. LUCKILY i didnt go totally camando like i was going to, but everyone still saw my striped underwear the rest of the freaking race. agh. im not looking forward to seeing pictures online. gah!
**DUMPSTER dive. - they literally had a empty dumpster, we had to get up INTO the dumpter and than back OUT of the dumpster. yea. thank goodness for nice boys. ronnie boosted me up and over, i hung out and pulled her up, and we both got into the dumpster. and than needed help getting out. lol. (picture doing this with a ripped crotch...fantastic right/.? no.)
**WATER SLIDE- slide down into waist deep water and walk through it and get out. nothing too fancy. we actually tried going down together, but stopped like 1/4 of the way down. lol
**TUBE TUNNEl- you know those tubes that go under small bridges, or such....we had to go through that. it wasnt nearly as bad the trench tunnels.
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**ARMY CRAWL under a net, uphill. We saw this sneaky smart couple in front of us, go up along the side, because its more raised, so we followed. genius, we whipped right up the hill.
**WALL of Fame or Wall of Shame....you choose to go over an 4 foot wall (wall of shame) or 8 foot wall (wall of fame). we choose the 8 ft wall.
**CARGO NET. Climb up a cargo net to the top, go over, and climb down the cargo net. this was easy, but embarrassing as im sure audience members got a full show with my ripped crotch.
**RING MY BELL- climb up 14 foot of rope and ring the bell. We tried and failed at this, i at the time had my split pants, and ronnie just laughed and laughed every time i tired, making it impossible for her to even try. it was a total fail.
**TELEPHONE POLE- okay. so they literally had telephone poles that were cut into 1/3rds.... and we can to carry them around in a circle a certain distance. Me and Ronnie carried it with 2 other people. It was INSANE. the people were like, no you need more people, and we were like, NO NO lets do it. So we did it. it was crazy. i dont know how we did it, but we did. the people in charge were shocked too.
**THE BEAST- we had to go through this HUGE mud pit. I thought for sure we wouldnt have to get that dirty...but there was barbwire above you, so you HAD to army crawl through this muddy mess. Of course I had dirty and water at my ankles because of the opening at my waistline. after that we had to climb "the beast" . it was literally a wall caked with mud (plus your covered with mud). We had some more nice guys help us up and over. They pulled me up to the point that I was hanging there, and they said, "do you got it from here?" i yelled back, "NO! dont drop me!" but they helped me over the wall. thank goodness.
**FINISH. We finished jumping over fire pits to the finish line. it was INSANE. it was FUN. it was HARD. it was FANTASTIC. it was i cant even explain. I would TOTALLY do this again!
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