5K Foam Fest 2013

I have definitely kicked the year off right, going into my 2^nd month of 2013 and I just knocked out my 4^th race.

This one however left a little bit to be desired, when I first saw it, I thought it looked like a lot of fun! Foam…like mud right, just a bit different! I am totally down…until I saw that it wasn’t timed. Ummm. Does that even qualify as one of my 24 for 2013 if it isn’t even timed??

 

But my girl talked me into it. Something about an easy relaxing fun run. “And we can still run it anyway” she claimed. Well we made it competitive and pushed ourselves to do well!

We get to the event and it seems to be pretty organized….we start off in our 9 am wave and run yet more trails at Amelia Park. To be honest, those bike trails can be kind hard!

But the obstacles, Foam Obstacles, were not very good. They had big blow up bounce housed filled with foam and some of the bounce houses had holes dropping to the ground and others had things sticking up to block your way. Which was fine, but with the foam you couldn’t see the holes and my friend almost sprained her ankle falling into one.

And being the only people running a fun run…well that just leads to lines and waiting around as much as running.

We get to the Foam Drop of Death…and that was fun! You got to climb up this big ass slide and at the end, slide down into a big pill of foam.

Besides that I think the only other obstacle that we enjoyed was the one at the end, where you dove into this tunnel and came out into a bath of foam.

There was one part of the race, where you had to crawl under electric wire.  I didn’t realize until half way through that it was electrified. I kept wondering what the heck that was.

Sadly, the mud pit was not very muddy and unless you seriously got down and groveled in it you came out pretty much clean.

Overall this race wasn’t challenging and didn’t really bring anything new to the table. You did get a medal at the end, so I guess you can say this race you would do for the bling.

Either way, we did have fun. My next race is a timed one. The Miami Zoo 5K! It will be my second year doing it so I am hoping to beat last year’s time!