RAWR!!

Hey All,

     In case you haven’t heard I’ve decided to give my hand at the Virginia Warrior Dash 2012.

     It’s on September 29^th, giving me plenty of time to get all my training in. Right now I’m doing Strive on Tuesdays and Thursdays, never heard of Strive? There’s a blog post on the right side bar about it. Shorthand, its strength/cardio circuit training. On the other weekdays I try to build up my running distance and endurance. My training plan is loosely based on the C25K program.

So. Are you a Warrior? The only way to know is to:

• Leap over the warrior flames
• Climb the cargo nets
• Dash down the river
• Climb the wall
• Clear hurdles
• Run up the narrow wooden ramps
• Trudge through the waist deep water (which has logs in it)
• Crawl across the tangled nets
• Run through the junkyard of cars
• Fight your way through the rubber junk jungle
• Hurdle over barricades and crawl under barbed wire
• Make it through the barbed wire mud pit

     
That’s it then, nothing to it! Basically what I see is a lot of running, climbing, and jumping. While the initial challenges sound hard a lot of the obstacles are likened to the things we did as kids on jungle gyms and playhouses (wading through ball pits, crawling through tunnels, hanging from monkey bars, etc).  So suffice to say I’m not feeling very intimidated. Yet.

     I’ll post updates to my training and plans for the even with the Warrior Dash tag. Anyone that wants in on this let me know, I think there’s a carpool going, and if you don’t want to get down and warrior dirty, there’s a spectator area as well. Food, beer, and mud; Also Live Music; September 29^th.

     If you do decide to run, all finishing runners get 1 free beer, and a medal. Just for signing up you get Fuzzy Viking horns, and a t-shirt. Also best costumes get an award!