Crossposted from the other BF RWOL forum:
So, I signed up for the Warrior Dash with hubby, thinking we would do some fundraising for my work's Chicago office. The fundraising office never promoted our efforts, so I ended up not really raising money. My Chicago colleagues did the Joliet race and made it sounds super easy - I kind of wonder if Quarryville was more whup butt than that one, though? My barefoot peeps [YOU GUYS AND YOU CAN SUCK IT!] said to do it barefoot, so I wore crappy old beach shoes that I had to ditch once we got to mud. These shoes offered almost no protection and the right one had huge holes in the sole - for some reason, I thought the whole race would be on soft dirt trail. I was stressed before the race and I think I might have come to my senses and taken trail shoes, but I was rushed and just grabbed what was around (I run in these on city streets with no problem).
Well, crayola. The first section of the race was huge chunky landscape gravel which was a problem even with the shoes. Then we got on nice trail and had the obstacles. Lots of obstacles - many more than I expected. I thought it would be more running than obstacles, but it was more obstacles than running. I was slow on the obstacles, but I got through them all fine. The shoes were fine on them and me and hubby passed quite a few people.
After the creek crossing (swimming under logs), I lost my shoes in the first mud pit. I had to continue barefoot on a brutal creek crossing, uphill mud climb, steep muddy dowhill, and then back to the %$&*# landscape gravel. It finished in a mudfield covering crushed asphalt that felt like walking on glass.
The pain started on the way home and eventually I figured I'd broken or severely bruised my toe. I went to the ER and I mentioned it felt like something under my toenail, but they never looked at it but did an X-ray to rule out a break. After reaching a level of pain on the way home I have never felt in my life, I finally pried my toenail away from the toe and, sure enough, I just had a cra*load of gravel underneath the nail. I picked it out with a needle and drained the pus and immediately the pain subsided. It's still swollen and infected-looking, but I am ever grateful it's not a realy injury and will not derail my half marathon and upcoming 4 miler race training.
Capmikee and I ran it together and he went BF all the way and was fine. As someone on the course pointed out, he went "spandex-only" (just some bike shorts).
So, I signed up for the Warrior Dash with hubby, thinking we would do some fundraising for my work's Chicago office. The fundraising office never promoted our efforts, so I ended up not really raising money. My Chicago colleagues did the Joliet race and made it sounds super easy - I kind of wonder if Quarryville was more whup butt than that one, though? My barefoot peeps [YOU GUYS AND YOU CAN SUCK IT!] said to do it barefoot, so I wore crappy old beach shoes that I had to ditch once we got to mud. These shoes offered almost no protection and the right one had huge holes in the sole - for some reason, I thought the whole race would be on soft dirt trail. I was stressed before the race and I think I might have come to my senses and taken trail shoes, but I was rushed and just grabbed what was around (I run in these on city streets with no problem).
Well, crayola. The first section of the race was huge chunky landscape gravel which was a problem even with the shoes. Then we got on nice trail and had the obstacles. Lots of obstacles - many more than I expected. I thought it would be more running than obstacles, but it was more obstacles than running. I was slow on the obstacles, but I got through them all fine. The shoes were fine on them and me and hubby passed quite a few people.
After the creek crossing (swimming under logs), I lost my shoes in the first mud pit. I had to continue barefoot on a brutal creek crossing, uphill mud climb, steep muddy dowhill, and then back to the %$&*# landscape gravel. It finished in a mudfield covering crushed asphalt that felt like walking on glass.
The pain started on the way home and eventually I figured I'd broken or severely bruised my toe. I went to the ER and I mentioned it felt like something under my toenail, but they never looked at it but did an X-ray to rule out a break. After reaching a level of pain on the way home I have never felt in my life, I finally pried my toenail away from the toe and, sure enough, I just had a cra*load of gravel underneath the nail. I picked it out with a needle and drained the pus and immediately the pain subsided. It's still swollen and infected-looking, but I am ever grateful it's not a realy injury and will not derail my half marathon and upcoming 4 miler race training.
Capmikee and I ran it together and he went BF all the way and was fine. As someone on the course pointed out, he went "spandex-only" (just some bike shorts).
