This morning we were up bright and early for the Merrell Down & Dirty Mud Run at Lake Castaic.

{the calm before the [mud] storm}

It was a gorgeous day for the 5K trail run which included short walls to scale, a waist deep wade through the lake, a rope wall and then the final mud crawl before the finish line.

{the perfect place for [a kodak moment]}

{thank goodness for bandanas}

{“go daddy go” ~ bib #1620}

{in the white shirt…off to get into his corral}

{in the far lane behind the person on their knees in the orange shirt}

{i don’t know why they bother passing out bibs}

{off to the showers}

{cool dog tag medal}

{quick picnic before heading home}

By the way, the edamame hummus at TJ’s is AWESOME!

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Jay did great and wants to try the 10K next year.

I’m going to definitely do the 5K and see how that goes….better work on my upper body strength!

The nice thing is that the lake is literally 15 minutes from our house.

Anyone wanna get a little team together, dress up and do it with me next year?

Put aside an old pair of tennies and let’s get dirty!

It seriously looked like so much fun.

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Enjoy the rest of the beautiful weekend!