Seriously though, Mudder had its awesome moments. I was completely thrown out to left field many, many times. The obstacles that I thought were going to be the most challenging for me were not that bad and a couple of ones I looked at before hand and thought "no big deal" turned out to be effing frightening! From the inspirational speech given at the start of the challenge to the extremely crazy 17 kilometer terrain we had to cover, this was one insane day that I will never forget! I did have a moment of extreme fear on the "Walk the Plank" obstacle. I happily followed my team mates up to the top of a platform, only to find that I would then need to jump a huge distance into water. Uh, NO. I let (read: pushed) a few of my team members ahead of me then politely asked the Mudder staff member if I could pass and go back down. He promptly told me "no, your gonna have to jump". Well crap. I was scared shitless! Why, I don't know? It was just water. I eventually jumped and struggled to swim to the edge. I have been having nightmares about it since! If I had known that was going to be the obstacle that was going to send me over the edge I would have trained at the damn pool! (swimming with runners on also proved to be challenging!). Of course everyone keeps asking me if I would do it again and so far my answer is a very clear, absolute HELL NO, however if it had not rained and hailed on us during the event it may not have been such an uncomfortable situation and I would consider doing it again. We were beyond freezing and it made some of the challenges much more hard, if not impossible (for me anyway).
