The Little Birdee: The Dirty Dash

Hey! For all you active runners out there I have the next best thing! If any of you have heard of The Dirty Dash then you already know where I'm going with this and how totally awesome it is. I heard about the beloved mud run from a friend of mine. When she told me that it was a 5k mud obstacle course where you wallow in filthiness and sometimes dress up in ridiculous costumes, I almost peed with excitement. Also, I was a little nervous. I love running but I was in no way ready for a race. But when the day came, I realized that most people there weren't ready for a race either. Thy just came to roll around in the mud.

The dirty dash has been around for a while now and travels the country giving everyone a chance to act like a pig for a day. You get to jump over hay stacks, crawl through muddy tunnels, wade through thick swampy pools and run (or slide) up and down muddy hills. Towards the end there was a HUGE waterside down this hill and into, can you guess? More mud. The finale was filled with tall muddy hills you had to crawl up and over and then slide into a deeper-than-it-looked mud pool. It was pretty humorous watching us, and others, try to get up over that hill with how slippery it was. Teamwork was definitely involved.

At the end, one of the friends I was running with tackled another friend and then disappeared into the mud pool. After crossing the finish line, you walk through a tent where they have photographers set up so you can forever bask in your muddy glory and show everyone that you really know how to get dirty.

I recommend anyone who has the chance to try it at least once, if not every year it comes around. It was a BLAST and, really, when are you ever going to get THIS muddy?