#85 - Participate in a Dirty Dash
#112 - Shower with Strangers
Who doesn't love playing in the mud? Add in hundreds of people, various obstacles, beautiful weather and 5 kilometers and you have yourself a Dirty Dash. Doesn't that sound like the best way to spend a Saturday morning? Unfortunately I had a difficult time convincing people to join me on the adventure. A few people in my singles ward decided to join in the fun so that I didn't have to participate all by myself.
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| Madi, Jenna, Erin, Kristen, Kelsi, and Me (not pictured: Laura) |
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Our Dirty Dash was held at Soldier Hollow in Midway, UT. We signed up for the 8:40 wave but ended up going with the 9:20 wave. From the starting line, we headed straight up a hill of dirt with sprinklers. I was slipping and sliding in no time. My shoes were caked in so much mud I instantly became 3 inches taller. Through out the course we had to overcome various obstacles...hills, cargo net ladder, hay bail stacks, mud pits, giant inflatable slide, trees, creek, saving our shoes from the mud pit and other things that I'm not remembering at this moment. But our biggest struggle was trying to find clean, dry sections of clothing to wipe the mud out of peoples' eyes.
Towards the end of the run they had a giant slip and slide that we went down. A line developed because they were having some trouble getting water to all the sections on the slide. I sat in line watching people struggle to get on the slip-n-slide or make it down. Because I had seen others go before, some excelling and some failing, I was prepared to be the most graceful of them all. Then I actually started moving and all dreams of being graceful went out the window. I ended up slipping right before I stepped onto the slip-n-slide. It wasn't just a little slip either. Both of my feet/legs slid underneath the slip-n-slide. I'm sure I looked extra spastic as I tried to wiggle myself out from under the slide. Spastic looking or not, I made it down the slide and to the final mud pit before the finish line. They couldn't have us looking semi-clean from the water on the slide so there was one last pit we had to trench through before finishing. We all ended up looking nice and muddy for our finish line and after pictures.
A group of people were waiting at the end of the race collecting our muddy shoes for charity. They send them off (hopefully to be cleaned) and the shoes end up in Africa. I was more than happy to leave my shoes behind so it was an added bonus that someone else will benefit from them.
Shocking that this wasn't on my original list of adventures! But showering with strangers happened so it made the list. We finished our race and had mud in places no one should ever have mud. Luckily they provided "showers" to clean up after the race. For those willing to pay $6, your shower could be a pressure wash with warm water. I was not willing to pay the money and figured cold water wouldn't be too bad. It wasn't the cold water that was the problem. When there are 30+ people all trying to get clean at the same time, water pressure goes down the drain. People were taking off the spray handles and hoses so they were getting gushing water. Great for them but horrible for those of us who were down the line getting a drop or two. I had finally given up trying to really get clean when I saw that a couple of my group members had commandeered a prime shower location with a steady stream of water. All 7 of us were able to get fairly clean before heading to the car.
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| Look closely and you can see the "showers" behind us |
At the car we created some make shift changing rooms to get out of our still muddy and wet clothes. My clothes went into a garbage bag that eventually made it's way into the trash. They were old clothes and it would have taken more effort to get them clean than they were worth.
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