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The BadAss Dash is 3 days away...

9/10/2014

 
Um, today is Wednesday. The BadAss Dash is on Saturday.
That's ... that's ... that's ...

Oh, dear lord.
February feels really far away, now. February is when I signed up for this thing. February is now as far away as, well, as September felt back then. Like I had an eternity to prepare myself.

I am not prepared for this.
Okay. Yeah. Freaking out just a bit.

A lot.

A really really lot.

And, I know it's supposed to be this fun event. The point is only to finish it. It's about working as a team. Blah blah blah. What if I hold everyone back? My team, or other racers? I still haven't been able to do monkey bars on a children's playground, nevermind the adult-sized race ones. I don't know how my knees will hold up through mud, or down a ski hill, even at a walking pace. There are tubes that people have to crawl through, people much smaller than me, and they barely fit into those tubes! I tiptoe/walk through the tires in Outdoor Fitness Challenge because I trip on my own two feet, and they have a field of tires to agility-run through. There is a giant slip-and-slide, people. Giant! Giant obstacles equal giant bruises.

What the hell was I thinking?

I'll tell you what I was thinking: I was cocky. I thought "sure, I can do it. I've got time to lose weight and get strong and train specifically for this event. And then we'll have some beers afterwards and congratulate ourselves on being badass-princesses-who-turn-forty-next-year."
God. I just hope I live to see 40 and don't end up "celebrating" this reunion from the emergency room.

Guess we'll know in about 3 days.
Scott M.
9/14/2014 10:37:23 am

How did it go, Barb? Did you survive? :)

Barb
9/14/2014 12:01:00 pm

Yes! Survived, and lived to write about it: http://www.myguttellsme.com/blog/processing-the-badass-dash-experience


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