So the swamp romp is basically a 5 mile obstacle run through the "swamps" of the marine corps base in Kaneohe Bay. Sounds fun right? When in reality its nasty! Some of the mud that you are running through you are almost positive it has come out of sewage drains... Your legs get stuck in the mud because it is so deep in places, and in other places the water is so deep you can literally go under, which is what a lot of people do (mostly guys). They dive right into this nasty nasty stuff... I tried to keep my head out of it to spare my hair, and also spare my cape. I knew it was going to get heavy! And, sadly by the end it was totally soaked, smelly, and super heavy. I continued to randomly run and allow it to catch the wind so it would billow up. I wanted to look really cool, which is easy for me obviously :) I was one of the only people with a cape on, which instantly makes me badass, out of over 1000 participants! I would climb to the top of obstacle and jump off with my cape flying behind me. That's just what you do as a super squatch!
Yup, Mary and Keysa made us all t-shirts.
At the end of the race they have basically fire hoses to spray everyone
down. My shoes and socks went right into the dumpster. We're saving my
cape for the Warrior Dash in March though :)
Our before and after shots :)
It took about 5 good scrubbings and shampoos to get the stench out of my skin and hair, but boy oh boy was it worth it!!!!!
