Warrior Dashers look at the race page

Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 12:36 pm

I dont know when but they updated the course for the upper midwest. The course is totally different now, and all new obstacles, that imho look to be harder than what they had on there before.

http://www.warriordash.com/register2011_upper_midwest.php

Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 3:35 pm

after running the one in Minnesota, this one still doesn't look that bad. Ski hills are much worse. You'll discover that the obstacles really aren't terrible. I thought they would take a lot more energy to complete, but they are meant to be tough, not impossible.

WGA Member Joined: 2007-09-11 Posts: 453

Thanks for the heads up!

WGA Member Joined: 2009-06-05 Posts: 473

thanks for the heads up, we are scheduled for a Saturday run time around 12 or 1230

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:25 pm

I specifically chose to do this one instead of the Minnesota one because I didn't want to run hills. Used to be good at that, not anymore. We were caching the area of the MN event this past week and it about did us in.

Darn, it sucks to get older! When in the world did that happen???

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 3:45 pm

I was hoping they'd dump the net climbing thing. I can probably slog my way through the other stuff okay, but I know my wimpy arms will struggle to hang onto that net until I can get over the top. Oh well.

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:10 pm

Good luck to you crazy runners!!

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:33 pm

I am starting to think that this might have been a bad idea. I am in the 10:30 wave tomorrow. I don't think I can help with the carpool idea.

WGA Member Joined: 2007-11-26 Posts: 3259

Trekkin and Birdin wrote:

Darn, it sucks to get older! When in the world did that happen???

Yesterday.

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:20 pm

Braid Beards Gang wrote:

I am starting to think that this might have been a bad idea. I am in the 10:30 wave tomorrow. I don't think I can help with the carpool idea.

Its raining here at Bong. I am tent caming in this beautiful November weather. I can't wait to freeze my ass off tomorrow!

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:49 pm

anyone reporting back yet?

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 9:56 pm

I finished! And I had a BLAST, will do it again next year.

I didnt finish last, in my age group or overall and I beat my time goal by 15 minutes!

WGA Member Joined: 2009-06-05 Posts: 473

35:48, my first time attempting and definately plan to return next year.

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:45 am

24:19 --- 9:30 faster than the race in Minnesota (@#%$ ski hills).

for the day...

62 out of 651 in my age group...
277 out of 5477 overall

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 11:24 am

forgot to mention the downside... still waiting to see if they got a pic of me later in the race. I managed to fall off the first obstacle on the way down. my foot was square on the wood, but it was so wet I still fell about 4-5 feet down. landed on my hands and knees... still picking out gravel out of both. when i got to the second obstacle I noticed I had blood from kneecap to sock and today it hurts to open doors