The Crazy Things We Do With Our Family: The Dirty Dash

Somehow Marilyn talked us into signing up to run the "Dirty Dash". It was held in Midway.  The Dirty Dash is a 5K or 10K run through the mud. You get to choose to do the 5K or the 10K.  For some reason that no one quite understands; we chose to do the 10K course. There are mud bogs along the way.  There are obstacles to go over and under. A lot of the time we had to help each other get out of the bogs and a lot of the time we had to keep each other from falling down.   We survived.  The pictures are self-explanatory!!

The kids, Livvy, Addi, Oakley, Logan and Carter had to wait a few hours for their race to start.  Jeremy Redd waited with them.  When it was their turn to run the course, they also got covered from head to foot with that nice, icky, gooey mud.  They loved it.

Marilyn and Kristi had to go a long with them on their run through the mud because they had to have parents with them.

This is what we had looked like before the race.  It took a few showers to get the mud off.  We were digging it out of our ears for days.  We were muddy, exhausted, stiff and tired, but we will definitely do it again when we have the chance!!