Dirt in your skirt blog

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Posted on December 22, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
There we were in the Wetsuit tent, the three amigos together. Our team had unknowingly assembled for what would proved to be a long rest of the day and night. We headed off to the water obstacles for the first of many times over the next day. As we headed......
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Posted on December 22, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
Cold and wet, much colder and wetter than I thought this race would be we soldiered on to the next obstacle about half way through the course we hit Shake and Bake. This obstacle was much like the barbed wire, as it was another barbed wire section. This one however......
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Posted on December 22, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
All of a sudden I wasmoving, moving forward and we were running, running to make the first obstacleor suffer the penalty of an extra quarter mile. The weather was sunny and tempswere in the high 30’s or low 40’s. A nice day for a run in December. In hindsite I......
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Posted on December 21, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
My Bib I will try to tell the story of this weekend as well as possible. The last couple of days have been a complete daze and anything before the race seems like it was months ago. I sit here staring at the computer wondering how to put down into......
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Posted on December 20, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
I am not ready to put into words all that I experienced over the weekend. I need to let my brain take in all that happened and process this weekend. For as I sit here it all seems like a blur mostly of water and neoprene. At this point all......