Training Log Archive: Funderstormin

I forgot my watch, which I actually wore for Dances with Dirt, in Michigan, and never looked at my times so I'm totally guessing at everything.

This was my fourth year doing Dances with Dirt in Hell with some of my Michigan pals. We don't decide in advance who is running what legs (although that was debated this year) so find out one leg beforehand if you are running or not. In other years, this has worked in my favour and I have been done just after lunchtime. This year, however, it worked against me as I didn't run my first leg (Leg 6, I think) until it was almost lunchtime and it sure was real hot! Fortunately this leg involved jumping into a waist high pond and getting wet and muddy, plus there was the opportunity to be hosed off at the end of it.

This was a fun leg that I had never run before but I didn't like not getting one done earlier.

My second leg was leg 10, I think? It was short with a bit of fun off trail stuff at the beginning. It was pretty uneventful compared to the last one!

My final leg was called "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and involved a field, a swamp crossing, dodging some fences and then jumping into a small pond at the end to try to impress the audience with your spectacular cannon balling skills, which I did not do! I was glad to be done, have run some new legs, and get to drink beer in earnest. We had just gotten our finish line pizzas when the skies opened up, so we had a pizza party in the van before heading to a friend's cottage for the after party.

A great time as always!

Dropping Earl off for a little TLC and running home.