Spartan Tough!!

We did it!!  This last Saturday we had our Spartan Race at Soldier Hollow, UT.  We had a great time, and are sore to prove it!  Here are a bunch of photos and a few video clips of all the fun!!  Thanks to all our support group!  It was fun to have everyone there to cheer us on. Chatting before the race.  Since Megan is in the Missionary Training Center preparing for her mission to Tulsa, OK, Kelly's friend Kate joined us.  We missed Jared and Michelle and their family who weren't able to make it either.

 We dubbed ourselves the "Lightning Sisters" in honor of Megan(since she is serving a much greater cause).  Kelly and Megan had this little song called "Lightning Sisters" from when they were really little.  It's kinda a family joke.  We thought a more appropriate name for our speed and pace would be "rolling thunder", but, oh well!

 The race was a total of 8 miles with 18 obstacles.  There were pretty LONG stretches of running, and a lot more uphill than we thought we would have.  The race started with a 1 mile climb and then a 1 mile downhill.  Pretty intense.

 Here is a group of runners along the ridge line.  It was a beautiful view up there, but it was quite the climb.  Every time we thought we were to the top, there was more uphill!

 If you look closely, you can see these runners starting the steep downhill stretch.  That was very slippery and challenging in and of itself!

 There were many wall-climbing obstacles that our photographers didn't get because there were off the beaten spectator path.  Here is where we had to drag a cinder block up and then down a hill.

At about this point in our race the kids race started.  It was 1/2 mile obstacle run.  No mud.  Lani was the only one who wanted to do it.  Great job Lani!!

 
This was the second of the cargo net obstacles.

 Aerial view of the rope climb.

 If you look closely, you can see my sisters helping me try and climb the rope.  It was so great that we could help each other through each obstacle.

 Pull the tire up to the top of the bridge and let it down slowly...

 If you look closely here, you can see the tire that I'm pulling up.

 Yay for sisters!  I don't think any of us could have done the monkey bars alone, so we didn't even try!  If you couldn't do an obstacle you were supposed to do 30 burpees!!  It didn't take long for us to get tired of burpees!  I won't admit to how many burpees I should have done, nor to how many I actually did!

 The soap wall.  This wall was covered with soap and water.  I'm still in pain from my crash on this one.

 This was a VERY long stretch of barbed wire. You really had to get low in the mud to keep from cutting yourself.  I actually got a little tear in my shorts, but no cut!

 Jumping the fire!!

 Through the mud pit.  This was very uneven, so by the end we were laughing hard because each of us fell at least once!

 

 
We locked arms to go against the gladiators just before the finish line.

 WE DID IT!!

 

It was definitely HARD!  I'm glad I trained some for it.  If I ever do it again I will train a lot more hills, and do a lot more arm strengthening in addition to my distance running.  I really love my sisters!!