We Came...We Saw...We Were Only a Tiny Bit Scared and We CONQUERED!!!!

Bring it Spartan...Swoobs of Sparta is ready...we think!

So this last Saturday it was finally time to put on our big girl panties (or blinding pink zebra striped spandex) and put all of our crazy training to the test, it was time for the first ever Utah Spartan Beast. For those of you who do not know about the race I'll do a little explaining for you....
It takes place at Soldier Hollow, where the Olympic cross country course was way back when we had them here in Utah. No I'm not going to compare it to the Dirty Dash...other than the dirty part. It's 12+ miles and 25+ obstacles and very HILLY...I don't even know if hilly is the right word...it was a freaking mountain.
We started off in the mud right off the bat with about 50 other people, mostly half naked men, and a few girls that should put on a shirt and take off some makeup...right out of the starting gate the guy in front of me puked up his bottle of red Gatorade he had downed probably 20 minutes prior (I almost was in the line of fire..COME ON SHELLY!).
Bring on the walls....they started us off nice and easy with 3 or 4, 4 foot walls, pretty easy and very fun...just watch out and don't get kicked in the head by the overzealous guy next to you! Then the hills came, and came and came and it got hot....really HOT! about mile 1.5 they took pity on us and threw in a mud slide into a mud pit complete with a Spartan volunteer blasting us with freezing cold water from a fire hose...THANK YOU, it was much needed! I was hoping for more of those through out the course but unfortunately I think they decided to use the heat and the dry mud we were covered in as an obstacle, we did not have nearly enough mud and/or water about miles 8 through how ever far we ran.
Brooke (my partner in crime and BFF sister) must have been a mountain goat in another life time cause she was KILLING the hills...I'm pretty sure I slowed her down on that part, but since we made a promise to stick together she had to deal with my pansy ass having to walk/hike up some of the hills. Thanks Brookie :)
Other obstacles...lets see...there was carrying or dragging heavy things up steep hills such as sandbags...cinder blocks attached to chains and home depot buckets that we had to fill up with rocks. Lots of climbing over 8 foot walls at the top of hills and a rope out of a mud pit, which we ROCKED! We used some team work to get over the walls and we worked pretty great together if I do say so myself! Like maybe we need to do The Amazing Race or something....just a thought!
We also had target shooting, spear throwing (Brooke's first set of burpees), crawling under lots of barbed wire, tractor tire flipping, climbing up cargo nets, pulling up tires and cinder blocks on a rope and some spider man wall we had to cross.
Unfortunately there was no fire to jump over, apparently the entire state of Utah being on fire was enough to make them hold off on that. Oh well...we had so much fun anyway and guess what!? We are already signed up for next year! YAY!
As you can tell I'm wrapping this up quickly because the natives are getting restless...very restless.
All in all we learned that we are freaking tough, we are all caught up on our tetanus shots and it's really fun to get the crap beat out of you for 12+ miles!