August 19th – Day 51
Muddy Buddy!
One of the adventures that both of us had been looking forward to and one of the first things we officially planned to do on this trip was to compete in the Muddy Buddy race in Boulder. It was on our list to complete from last year even in Richmond but didn’t quite work out. So we were both pretty pumped to actually get to do this and voluntarily drag ourselves through a big mud pit at the end of the race.
The race consisted of 900 teams of two people, each team with one bike. There were five sections to the race and one teammate had to run while the other biked to the next section. Each part of the race was divided by a small obstacle where you swap your responsibilities after completing the task. The race itself was not challenging, especially if you have been biking every day for the past month and a half, but the real fun of the race is the whole atmosphere and camaraderie. They held a costume contest with well over 50 teams dressing in costumes (and racing in them) with the winning team being a couple of Umpa Lumpas. Everyone there was very excited to be racing and active. The weather was perfect, the organizers did a really great job putting it together, and it was great to watch teams come to the final section, the mud pit, and have a blast.
We personally did not set any land speed records but had a great time getting dirty…
-Brent
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