Dirt in your skirt blog

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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 5, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
As with most races when they happen, I black out, the actualrace is always a blur. I struggle after the fact to recall all the obstacles inthe correct order. I go into what I call “go mode” when I slip into this statethere is no before, there is no after,......
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Posted on December 5, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
PRE-RACE Race day, this race day was like no other I haveexperienced. The Championship Heat was slated to start at 3:30pm. We would be the final heat of the day, the last group to finish out the 2011 Spartan Race Season. As I lay in bed willing myself to sleep......
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Posted on September 27, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
It happened After a night of nerves running extremely high, just ask some of my friends with whom I swapped texts with on Saturday night. I was a ball of nerves, yes I had trained but this was a huge new challenge. When the alarm went off at 5:30am it......