Wendy's Nature Stroll: Dirty Girl Mud Run

The first mud run in my life! I mean, I've been in mud before, just never in a mud run. I did a Mangrove tree regrowth project back home and it was like a mud field.

Anyway, the Dirty Girl Mud run is a girl only event where no guys are allowed in the race. However, husbands and supportive guy friends are able to cheer the girls on along the path. I went with a friend, Ploy, and two of her friends, Rebecca and Jeremy (supportive guy friend).

It was fun! The race was a 5k obstacle course (around 3.5 miles) at KOA Ranch in Ventura. Rebecca and I were pushing Ploy pretty hard. Hahaha!

And because mud runs are such a big event, not everything went smoothly. The wait before going into the actual run was ridiculous! We were supposed to get there an hour and a half before our "wave" to register and get ready. They told us to park in this designated parking lot six miles from the course and that they had buses that will transport us back and forth throughout the day.

We waited, literally, for two hours at the parking lot before even getting on a bus.

They only had like three buses running. It was beyond ridiculous! Then after the race itself was another long wait before being able to get back on the bus to take us back to the parking lot. Seriously, if we didn't have any problems with their transportation we would have been out of there in three hours. The actual race itself took us around an hour and a half.

My wave started at 11:00am. I got back home at 6:00pm. That's horrible!

Other than that everything else was awesome. No line for the washing station. It was basically this huge tent with a circle of fountain and running hoses for us to wash ourselves. Locker room status, meaning you'll see occasional breasts as women are dressing themselves. The water was freezing!!! Oddly enough, it felt really good coming out of that cold wash. Really refreshing. :)