Betcha you’re thinking that the title of this post isn’t to be taken literally… ‘cept you’d be wrong.<\/p>\n
It’s about the “RunAmuck Festival<\/a>” – which is about slogging through the mud, Big Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n RunAmuck is a good, hard 5K trail run with a difference: three crossings of the muddy lake in hip-deep water and shoe-sucking muck, two man-made mud pits, a few wooden barriers to climb and a couple of those agility grids that football players run through during training camp.<\/p>\n …Sunday’s event was divided into six races — individuals, couples and teams, each with and without costumes — and was no walk in the park. I was in the first wave, which began at 9:30 a.m., so it was still relatively cool. After some hard running on the hilly first half of the course, I was ready for a plunge into the lake.<\/p>\n It wasn’t too cold, but I quickly sank ankle deep in the slime and slowed to a halting walk. There’s no question I would have left a shoe, maybe both, on the lake bottom if I hadn’t decided at the last moment to tape them to my ankles, as the RunAmuck Web site recommends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I gotta\u00a0give the\u00a0race organizers credit for imagination… the RunAmuck certainly isn’t your typical 5K fun run. I\u00a0expect it’s fantastic exercise, too.\u00a0 Nonetheless, I think I’ll pass.\u00a0 I don’t mind getting my hands dirty, but I don’t think I’d enjoy\u00a0exercising with\u00a0gloop dripping off my hair and\/or packed in my underwear.\u00a0I’d have taken up mud wrestling a long time ago, if I thought that sort of thing was appealing. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Betcha you’re thinking that the title of this post isn’t to be taken literally… ‘cept you’d be wrong. It’s about the “RunAmuck Festival” – which is about slogging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[610],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10302,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions\/10302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}