Tough Mudder is not for sissies!

My mommy and her friends, did a really hard race a few weekends ago at the  Snow Valley ski resort, I know because daddy and I walked almost the entire course taking pictures!!  They wouldn’t even allow me to go swimming in the mud and lakes but I was the only dog doing the TOUGH MUDDER and cheering their mommy on!!

It was fun watching mommy crawl through mud, over walls, swim in ICE water and slide down giant slides.  It was not so fun watching her try to run the half pipe 3x just to slide back down and land on her tush! I don’t like to see mommy in pain! 🙁  And it wasn’t so fun watching her crawl and run through electric wires either but it was fun watching other people do it!

The Tough Runners consisted of Adam Smith, Penny Scarbrough, Cathy Hardalo and my mommy, Dawn Celapino.  They ran 10+ miles at 7,000′ elevation and most of it was hills.  They ran A LOT of steep hills–one hill, Cliffhanger, was a 35% grade and they ended up at 7,816′ elevation! For one mile they even had to carry a log! It took them 4 hours but they were smiling at the end and so happy that they did it!

Mommy even competed in the pushup contest only to tie a gal on 30 pushups!! She was so upset that she did not do just ONE MORE PUSHUP to win! Then they had a tie breaker and the gal did 28 and mommy did 25 pushups so the gal won.  Mommy tried to get a break because after all, it WAS her birthday!!

It was a lot of fun and mommy is really proud of her team for giving it their all!! Enjoy the photos and make sure you check out their VIDEO–we know that you will wish your were there!

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