Warrior Dash

For those of you who don't know the whole story, just know i'm dealing with some heavy shit right now. Last Friday was my birthday and it was a pretty rough day. I ended up getting my drink on with Mugsy and and Hammer. Closed the fucking hammer saloon around 3AM.

The next day I had the Warrior Dash  http://www.warriordash.com/

To Be honest, I had no respect for this thing going in. I mean it's only 3 miles with some obstacles, how fucking hard can it be??

Due to my situation, my nephew dropped out and I was running solo.

I showed up hung over and emotionally drained. But once I got my warrior helmet i started to embrace the moment.  The race started with an uphill sprint and the course was complete mud. We were running through the woods, hopping downed trees and sinking in knee high mud. The harder you ran, the deeper you sank. I suddenly realized I had been waiting for this moment my whole life. I was born to do extreme things and this is it.

About a mile in we came upon a muddy river. All the other runners went to either the far left or right bank. Not me! Fuck them!! I'm a warrior! I left the pack and sprinted straight through the deep muddy river as hard as i could. Thats when it happened. I planted my right for and felt my ankle roll over.  I went flying and ended up doing A face plant in the mud. I was in too much pain to be embarrassed.

The last two miles was very difficult! My ankle kept giving out. I couldnt get any traction in the mud and whenever i planted my right foot, the fucking thing would roll over!  I still managed to give it my best. I even scaled a twenty foot wall, which for me is amazing due to my fear of heights.

When I finished I heard someone say "we have a bleeder"! I didnt know they were talking about me. It turns out that I sliced my right knee open, and it was bleeding pretty bad. I have no idea where or how this occured.  I had to go to the medical tent. But i'm a fucking warrior, so you know i went to the beer tent first!

Out of 10,200 runners i finished 4,200! At my age, with a bum ankle, i'll take it!

The knee is fine! The ankle is pretty bad but getting better everyday. I cant wait to do another warrior dash and a Tough Mudder!! http://toughmudder.com/

But now the focus remains cleaning up my shit and slaying the beast in October!

My marathon team is growing, you'll hear more about that soon. I have three and maybe as many as 6 to help me slay the mother fucker!!

I cant wait to get back to training when the ankle heals up! I'll be lifting for sure tomorrow.

Keep the Faith!

Ross

Song of the day- The first cut is the deepest-Cheryl Crow version