Tough Mudder

October 11th was our anniversary so we decided to sign up for the Tough Mudder with friends for that weekend. The Tough Mudder is an 11 mile race with obstacles. We signed up before I broke my arm but it was expensive so of course I was going to still do it and do as many obstacles as I could with one arm. Kelly's mom came down for the weekend to watch the boys and Kelly and I headed to Austin on Friday afternoon. On Friday night, we camped out with friends. Saturday we headed to the course and started our race around noon. Here's a quick shot of Kelly and I right before we started.



These pictures are bad quality because I downloaded them from facebook but they can give you an idea of some of the obstacles. This one was called Mount Everest and we had to run up the incline and grab the ledge.



Crawling under barbed wire was the first obstacle and it got us nice and muddy.



Meagan, Rob, and myself pretty early in the race. Meagan's dad came to take pictures and he took hundreds.



This one was fun. We had to climb up the back side of that wall and then jump into the muddy pond and swim across. That's me in the middle of the water.



Carrying a log for a 1/4 mile or so. Kind of dumb.



This was a stretch of having to climb up muddy hills and then slide down into a pit of mud. Over and over and over again.



The group we ran with. Most of us are from the gym and then Meagan's brother and his friend.



Those were just a few of the obstacles. We also had to scale 9-10 foot walls, dive into an ice cold pond and go under water, swim under barrels in a pond filled with dead fish, walk across a balance beam suspended over a 20 foot drop into water, crawl across sharp rocks under barbed wire, climb over hay bales, and run through an electroshock thing with 10,000 volts of electricity just to name a few. I was able to do every obstacle except for the monkey bars. It was fun but the obstacles weren't that hard. Our friends, who have done the same Tough Mudder course before, told us it took them just over 2.5 hours last time. So we had 2.5-3 hours in mind. Well the obstacles got pretty backed up and we had to wait in line for several of them and there were just tons of people around most of the time so it ended up taking closer to 5 hours to finish. By the end, we were tired and hungry. So it was a good thing Kelly and I had planned on visiting The Salt Lick that night.

The Salt Lick was featured on an episode of Man vs Food and we had been wanting to try it ever since. It is an awesome BBQ place on the west side of Austin. Here is the open meat pit inside the restaurant. Kelly got the all you can eat platter and I got the pulled beef sandwich. The food was really great, best BBQ we've had down here.



On Sunday morning, we had to head back to Fort Worth, but not before stopping at another Man vs Food locale, Round Rock Donuts.



I wanted a small cream filled chocolate bismark. Kelly wanted the Texas sized glazed donut they were famous for. My bismark was incredible. The Texas sized glazed was pretty good but they only glazed the top so we just kind of picked the top off and tossed the bottom. We brought back some sprinkle donuts for the boys.



We had a great weekend away, thanks Grandma for watching the boys for us!