Muddy Buddy!

There is this race called Muddy Buddy that comes through Atlanta once a year and you sign up for it with a partner. AK and I decided to partner up even though that would mean that he had to use my tiny mountain bike.

They give out prizes for the best costume so we decided to give it a go and spent the night before trying to locate blue paint with which to smurfify ourselves. I grabbed a white dress at a thrift store and a pair of red shorts for AK so we could pull off Smurfette and Papa Smurf (complete with a Santa beard).

Man oh man were we a bright, bright blue! We ended up losing the costume contest to Mario and Luigi (complete with a Yoshi bike!).

The race is designed such that one person rides the mountain bike while the other trail runs and then when you get to one of the obstacles you switch off. Whoever was riding the bike gets to the obstacle first, drops the bike on the side of the trail and takes off running....and the runner will pick up the bike after completing said obstacle.

The trails weren't particularly hard, but the amount of people that you had to dodge certainly made it interesting. The obstacles were a ton of fun and we had to run across balance beams, go down inflatable slides, and it all ended in the giant mud pit.

I got to the mud pit first (I biked 3 times, and ran twice) and waited on AK to meet me there. You have to go through the mud pit with your partner and so we ran to it and dived on in, crawling on our knees underneath the flags and getting completely coated.

Making it out of the pit we ran to the finish line and as we would later find out we managed to place 4th in our age group!

After rinsing what mud we could off of our bodies and out of our eyes (ouch!) we headed over to the beer garden - because free beer at 10 am is always a good idea.

We met up with Mariah and grabbed a bite to eat afterwords at a great family joint. Needless to say we got some rather funny looks with our peeling blue skin and mud covered clothes! :)