Alright - so it's been a minute . . . Yeah, I did the Tough Mudder and Survived!

Yeah, it's been awhile since I blogged.  Been kind of bummed since getting injured - more on that later.  But I am getting back to it so here we go!!!!!

So I think my last post was about the Mercedes 1/2 I did in February. 

So then did a Tough Mudder.  This is our team before - "Mud Up or Shut Up". 

Got hurt - in the first freaking mile!!!!  I slid in some mud - oh the irony - and fell, twisting my ankle in the process.  So cheering and playing sports as I have most of my life, twisted ankles were no big deal.  You twist it, sit for 10 minutes, get back up and ignore it and get on with life.  This one, however, twisted outward (instead of the typical inward) and I felt it pop.   Well, I was the one that talked us all into going to do this dang event so there was no way I was quitting.  So I waived off my teammates and told them I was fine.  Ran another 11 miles and did all the obstacles.  Awesome!  So two weeks later, it is still swelling up to the size of a softball after I am on it for a couple hours so off to the doc I go.

Ended up in a boot for 4 weeks with physical therapy for 3 weeks.  My doc said my ligaments in my foot were not rubber bands anymore (like they are supposed to be), but more like spaghetti.  Kind of cool to look at the x-rays and ultrasound though, especially when the doc was injecting my ankle with cortisone.  So after the shot I felt like I could run for miles!  Yeah, that feeling lasted 45 minutes.  After that it was complete pain!  I did not think I was going to get to sleep that night.  I was relegated to flats for months - uh, I am 5 foot 2 inches tall.  Seriously???  Flats????  I wear heals just so I can reach the buttons on the dang copier!  But now I have grown to love them.  Still love my heals (and now can wear them) but flats are nice too.

So anyway, enough about injuries.  If you ever get the chance to do a Tough Mudder, do it!  I would (and probably will) do another one.  I had a blast. 


I mean, where else do you get to wallow in a muddy water pit, climbing mud hills with friends??  Where else do you get the crap shocked out of you voluntarily multiple times (okay, that was relaly not that much fun)??  Where else do you dive into water that is soooooo called it literally makes you lose your breath??  Where else do you get to slam your face into a half-pipe as you try to run up it and fail, all while your friends and family cheer you on and laugh at the same time?  Seriously, there is nothing like it in the world.  The commradery, the obstacles, the entertainment, the adrenaline.  Love it!!!!  There are just so few people I know that would actually do one.  To me, it's an amazing experience like no other - even though I got injured - and to be able to say I did it is so freaking cool to me.

So now I have added my bib and headband to my office wall.  People come in my office all the time and ask what a "Tough Mudder" is.  I just smile and say "A really fun muddy obstacle course.  You should do it!"