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Warrior Dash – Saint Louis, MO

The Warrior Dash for Saint Louis is held in Old Monroe, which is not a great distance from our house.   The dash is 3.2 miles long through a country field over twelve obstacles consisting of crawling through a tunnel with wire over head, climbing over and under obstacles, walking over cars, using a rope to climb over a wall, jumping fire and at the end swimming through a huge mud pit under a wire.

Both of our daughters have competed in these events in Saint Louis and also in Las Vegas and they both had a blast.   What I did not think of when I sent the Groupon to our daughter is that she would enter us in the race since we would be at home.   We knew we would not be competitive and that we would do the event for fun and see how we would do on the obstacles.   We also knew that some of the obstacles we would not try due to worry that we might break something.

The day was awesome with sunshine and just a hint of coolness.   We dyed our clothes brown and became Indian Warriors and off we went to compete.   We formed a line about a mile away from the event as the volunteers worked to get everyone parked.   It was insane how many cars were trying to park in these fields.   It cost us $20.00 to park and with the Groupon it cost each of us $35.00 to enter the dash.   The charity we were helping was Saint Jude’s.

The Warrior Dash was held at a hunting preserve and was really a great place for a hike.   We climbed hills and meandered down through the valleys.   Some people were very serious about this event and they ran through quickly and made short work of all the obstacles, others like us enjoyed the day and had encouraging each other over the obstacles.   We enjoyed each other’s accomplishments and laughing over how funny we looked crawling around and over these obstacles.   The last two obstacles were jumping over a fire line and then swimming through a mud pit that required dog paddling as it was deep enough that I could not reach the bottom with my hands.  

After the race there was a fire truck spraying down the participants to remove the mud that was caked on us.   We still used a plastic tarp to cover the seat in the truck, as the fire truck was not able to remove all of the mud.   We had a great day and were glad we participated.