Well as many of you know, or have heard myself and any of the other 11 people talking about over the last 3 months. On Sunday we took part in the 2011 Warrior Dash in PA.
If you have never heard of this, check out the website to get a real idea.
It started off as a friendly idea, hey lets get 12 of us together and split into 2 teams and see who wins. Then after an official draft, trash talking, and even some trades, and some last minute drop outs, the teams were finally set.
The 2 teams of 6 spent time training(or at least some of us) and plenty more trash talking.
Raabs team was labeled as the front runner after what seemed to be a horrendous draft by the other team captain Aaron.
Raab with 2 ex army soldiers(himself and Matt), 2 half marathon runners(penny and adira), myself(the best self proclaimed athlete to never play a ncaa sport) and joey.
Aaron had a very unproven team with himself over working out, Aviva the most over hyped female athlete, a Pilot, An undrafted free agent in Seattle Chana, Jared who was supposed to be studying for the LSATs and Sweet Caroline.
But then came the last minute change of adding the one and Only Uri Freaking Westrich, of the Maccabaeats fame in replace of the Pilot. Now they as well had an ex soldier who also enjoys running in his spare time. Not only that, but the night before, The man himself Mr. Joseph frucht decided to twist his ankle on a 5 hour hike in the rain. As well as the fact that Raab was going to be performing straight off a red eye flight from Israel.
Suddenly the tides had turned drastically and the supposed front runners were now possibly even becoming the Underdogs.
As we arrived and started to get ready, the teams were pumped and it really was any ones game. With the time getting closer we all prepared for the 3.5 mile obstacle course run.
But none of us could have been prepared for the amount of Mud that was about to follow.
The amount of rain over the last few days, mixed with the fact that we were one of the last shifts to run, led to an extremely muddy course.
After jumping out to an early lead, Joey and Matt quickly fell behind as Joey twisted his second ankle in the MUD before the first obstacle. This allowed Raab and I to set the pace for everyone else until the 2nd obstacle when Chana and Uri snuck ahead of us while in a dark tunnel where we couldnt even see them and ended up banging my knee into a rock trying to catch them. Well done, I must admit.
For the next big chunk of the race it stayed this way, through knee high mud, balance beams, jumping over walls and under barbed wire, going through rivers it seemed the order would stay the same in the front. Chana and Uri, Raab and I, and then Jared and Aaron. All 6 of us were very close.
THEN came the giant wall where we caught up to Uri and Chana, and even passed them just to have them go right by us again when raab had to slow down. Stupid being sick and just landing from Israel. The end was close with the 6 of us all fighting to be the first group to finish, but the line at the tunnels ended up sealing the deal in that order, even after the cargo net, tire run and jumping through fire and crawling in mud under barbed wire The final six finished in that order.
Then came the waiting game for the rest of the players. We had no idea where they were, but raabs team was already down 4-2. A few minutes later we see emerging through the mud pit, Aviva and Sweet caroline and my heart dropped as I realised what this meant. We had not only lost, but were destroyed, in fact embarrassed. The unproven had become proven.
After some more time( I wont say how long after) the stragglers came in, Matt then Penny, followed by Adira and finally the man with 2 messed up ankles Joey.
For pics of what we all looked like at this point please check out Adiras facebook photos. There will also be a highlight video to follow as soon as we have time to edit it so you can all really get a feeling of what this was.
To celebrate everyone is given a free beer and then their is a concert for all to enjoy as well as Giant Turkey legs to eat. There may never have been a time where I wanted to eat non kosher more than at that moment watching everyone eat those legs.mmmmmmm.
Anyway I hope you all got a good idea of what we all went through and are super jealous that you did not take part.
Congrats to Aaron and the Black Team (although We lost more than you guys beat us) you def did win fair and square, and you deserve to feel proud.
AC
we should have won!
ReplyDeletethis was more disappointing than the heat losing in 6 games, which happened later that night!
worst day of my life...