The video for the last post, finally!!

I am the one in all black, with neon green shorts, and braided hair.  I am in the back and hard to see, but Rob is the one in a sleeveless (of course) red shirt.

Tough Mudder 2012

This was the electric shock therapy at the end of 21 obstacles (it was the 21st) and 12 miles of running...the wires are live, whenever you hear popping, that hurts!

I am the one with braids in black, with lime green shorts...Rob is the one in the sleeveless red shirt. 

There are a LOT more pictures to come, this is just what had my Mom worried the most, so I am putting this on for her and Grandma to see :)

Everytime my back ducks I am taking a shock....not as bad as it seems, It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be!!

 See the blond girl in the lower left corner?  She entered way before us and came out after me and with some of us...you'll see on the video.  She must have gotten shocked a lot.  Yowser. Rob is on the ground behind the hay bale and I am hunched over, movin,  behind Chad.

 I'm out at this point, Rob is army crawling and Misty (the other girl in our group) just took one to the face, ouch!

 Rob is done, YEA!!

 We have our highly coveted orange headbands, that you can only get by running a tough mudder, and I think I am adjusting Rob's.  I am so annoying.

 They give you a free beer, so being angry about how much everything cost and non-drinkers we dumped them out!

 We are cold, wet, covered in mud, and have been excerting ourselves for 3 hours and 23 minutes...so, no pretty to be found here!!

We are just thankful to have made it and to be done!



Uncle, Uncle!! I can't keep up, clearly...

So much has happened since I posted for my hater brother in law, and I just can't take the time to do the posts...please forgive me, blog.  I am posting this for my grandma, who was shocked that anyone would want to run in mud.  Rob and I have been training for the Tough Mudder since June.  It has been very interesting.  The TM is on Oct. 13th, so we decided to do the Dirty Dash in Heber to get a feel for it.  It was 5.5 miles, where the TM is 10.  It really kind of freaked me out, but I am starting to feel excited.

This is Rob's younger brother, Jacob, Rob and I at the end...

 One of the many obstacles, I am on the top and Rob is just below me climbing down.

 I don't know who the green faced guy is, but I like his sense of humor!

 Rob and I are holding hands because we are just soooo in love, don't feel like your marriage might be inferior to mine, know that it is.  (If only you could be as mean as we are to eachother, your marriage would be as great as mine, ha!)

 We were clean once, sigh of longing.

 We had just realized that the woman with a baby strapped onto her, with a camera in her hands, was Jacob's wife Emily!

 Mud can't stop love, it just makes it a little gritty!

 This is Jacob trying to dunk me, because he is a dork,  See how Rob is just watching and not saving me?  Like I said, no need to compare your marriage to mine!

 It was a beautiful day, the mountains showing us some colors...and then the ice cold "shower" which was hoses.  Jacob liked torturing me there, too.  The showers were way worse than any of the obstacles, horrible ice cold water!!

The best part of training/running has been the power I have felt over this body of mine.  It has been surprisingly empowering to push myself past what I want to do or feel capable of.  I feel like I can do anything!!  But, right now dark chocolate and a few episodes of project runway on my comfy couch sound really nice :)