First Race Before the Push

Life is a hard mistress and I will be missing the Crown Tournament this weekend.  Good luck to the top contenders!!! I look forward to greeting our new royalty.

This Saturday I'll be competing in my second 5k mud race.  To remedy the mistakes of the first I come into this with better shoes, New Balance MT10,  and a new set of compression running gear.  The Minimus shoes offer light weight, snug fit, quick drainage for mud and water, as well as good traction.  So far they have performed very well.  Unlike the first race, as an individual competitor, I will be competing as part of a 4 man team.  Our overall score will be an average of the first and last members of the group to cross the finish line.  We've all been training and will be able to top our old score of 45 minutes.   Even though our fitness strengths vary, staying together and dominating the obstacles will be no problem.

Mind-over-matter.  The desire to dominate the course successfully will pull the team through.  This race is the month marker for the Spartan Race in June.  It will indicate how far all of us have come and how far we need to go before that race.  It is crucial to continue the race training uninterrupted.  This Race on Saturday will look like a cake walk compared to what we will experience in June; A brutal, hilly run, combined with such obstacles as a 500-800 meter barbwire crawl.....

How you might ask does all this relate to fighting.  Perseverance, intensity, fitness and learning personal limitations are just a few of the benefits.  Great feats of physical prowess,  this is how we offset sword training, because in the gym you can't leave your competition in the mud....