Mike getting ready to kick some butt!

This past weekend a group of us ran in the 3rd Annual Marine Mud Corps Run at Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, NC.  It was a great time and its always good to help a charity.  My friends and I had brought 2 teams of 4 people each to endure the 5-5.5 mile course.  The course was filled with all sorts of different challenges including a number of calistenic stations, climbing over walls, crawling under tarps, running through a single track course through pricker and poison ivy filled woods, and my personal favorite which was crawling through 2-3 feet of a 150-200 ft mud pit.  Did I say crawling?  This also included push ups, running, and getting yelled at by a number of Marines as we did this.  Not only were we yelled at in the mud pits, but also throughout the entire course.  Let’s just call it “verbal encouragement”.

All in all it was a great morning last saturday.  My team (“The Swamp Donkeys”) pulled it together and we crossed the finish line together.  Note: If we didn’t finish together we probably would’ve been beaten to shreds on the spot.  Remember, the Marines “Never leave a man behind” and nor did we.  Checkout the pic below.  I was picking tiny grits of gravel out of my contact lenses the entire rest of that day!

Mike's Team Approaching The Finish Line

I urge you to google a marine corp mud run in your local area or join one of the few offered in the greater Charlotte, NC area. Here is the website of the event that we just did – Marine Corp Mud Run . To view more pictures of the event click here.

Take care, to your health.

Mike