Mud Run 2008 - Little Rocks Dirtiest 5K

The Saturday morning after the AIA Convention, I woke up at 6:45 a.m. to drive back to Little Rock to compete in the 2008 Mud Run - Little Rock's Dirtiest 5K. My friends Mason Ellis and Katie Kummer were going to run with me (Katie unfortunately left her keys in Hot Springs with a friend so she couldn't get into her house and therefore did not run with us, slacker). So mason and I arrived at the race about 5 minutes to the start. Lucky for us though it’s a pretty laid back 5K, meaning they did not start on time. The point of the Mud Run is to dress in costume, run the 5K, and at the end jump into a 300' x 50' mud pit. Mason and I dressed in our Atomic Catsicle kickball uniforms (cough cough, the rest of our team was supposed to join us, cough cough).

There are prizes for the winner (though the same guy has won every year), muddiest, cleanest, best costume, best entry into the pit, 9th place, and some others that I can't remember at the moment. The runners have to get in the mud. On the side of the pits there are pit bosses which blow a whistle if you don't get in enough. If you try to go around it they will take you into the pit and make you get muddy.

It was a lot of fun doing this; seeing all the funny costumes and then people muddying them up. Also, surprisingly a 5K is not tough. I have not run like that since Junior High and I don't know what my time was (cause they don't keep that), but it was easy; though I had to keep Mason running. Anyways, we made it through the pit, after some pushing of each other into the mud, not that we needed to because it was not easy to walk shin deep in mud. We can't wait for next year and hopefully our whole team will make it out.

**the above picture is Mason in the pit.