Are you up for a Mud Run? The mother of all Mud Runs, the Camp Pendleton Mud Run, is coming up. Well, not really. The actual races will be held in June - on the 4th, 5th, 11th and 18th.
But the date to sign up for all races is on Jan. 1. As in Friday night.
Let me give you a little bit of a warning:
DON'T WAIT
Ahem. Let me repeat myself:
DON'T WAIT
This race will sell out.
It. Will. Sell. Out.
It will totally sell out. All four races will sell out. How quickly? Race number one sold out in less than 12 hours on Jan. 1, 2010. Race number two and three sold out in a day or two. Race number four sold out quickly afterward.
They have Marines stationed at the race entrance looking for bandits, so don't even try to crash this party.
I will sign up for race no. 4, on June 18. Now, while the course is no different than the other three, that one's the ASYMCA one. Not really sure what the difference is but there are different pictures for this race. A different company shoots the pictures for the ASYMCA run versus the other ones, and those pictures are better. So if you like to see pictures of yourself in races, I'd recommend signing up for the June 18 race.
Anyway, one thing you must do on Jan. 1 is to sign up for the race. Wherever you are at midnight, sign up. If you plan to get blitzed, please be sensible enough when the ball drops to log onto the site and register. If you think "That LB, he seems like a nice guy, but I'm sure he's exaggerating," well, you are mistaken (about me exaggerating - I do think I'm a nice guy). Don't wait or you will miss out. And you will be sad. You will cry. Okay, maybe you won't cry but you will be sad.
If you haven't decided if this race will be part of your 2011 race calendar, you best decide by Friday.
Register here.
If you need help deciding whether this is a race you should participate in, let me offer this as an argument.
Do it. This race is so much fun. I've run marathons, half marathons, 10Ks, a Ragnar Relay and this race is still very much fun, still very much a race I look forward to running.
So do it. And do it on June 18 because I'll be there.
Just remember to sign up on Friday.
2 comments:
Wow, I can't believe how quickly the mud runs fill up! Do they have them at military bases in other parts of the country? I'm thinking there might be a good business opportunity in opening mud training courses!
The two friends I am doing it with have made me their designated signer upper, so I will be signing three people up for this race. Sadly, we are doing it on the 11th, so we won't get there at the same time.
Maybe next year we'll make it all work out.
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