Warrior Dash 2011

Thanks guys, and good luck to you guys who are trying it for the first time.

@c00ncc that depends on your compete level and how serious you take it. I took it as a race, a real race, which meant I ran the whole thing, and our course was a sloppy mess, they actually removed 2 obsticles because there was to much mud (it rained for 3 days before the race) so times were slower than usually (by like 3 minutes on average, which for a 5K is a BIG difference), a lot of people walked, in which case I doubt it would have been all that hard, if you can walk 4 miles and climb a rope ladder then this will be a piece of cake, but wear clothes and sneakers you don't care about.


Oh and as a courtesy, don't walk 4 abreast in the path, forcing runners to pass in the areas that are not well trodden or more dangerous, I almost killed myself a few times because some of the people were in groups taking the whole path and I had to detour into the deep woods to go around them, really, some say "just ask them to move" but in reality, you are concentrating on your footing, not looking up that often (if you do, you WILL fall) so you don't see folks until they are very close, and at that point, you either have to stop and wait for them to move over, or go around. I know this sounds like whining, but it was very annoying because I was going for time, and I literally lost about 4 minutes stopping and starting or running over logs and through thorn bushes to get around people at a leisurely walk. I have no issue with folks walking it, just give the rest of us a path to run if we like.