Cody has been looking into the Spartan Races for quite a while now. He loves talking about all the things they do on those races...crazy stuff! This week he has been on a work trip to New Hampshire. When he was getting on his last leg of his plane ride home he spotted a guy wearing a Spartan sweatshirt. He approached the guy and asked if he ran those races and what he thought of them. Of course the guy thought they were GREAT because as it turned out he was the owner of the Spartan Race Series. Cody had let him know how interested in them he was and the guy told him to come run it...the next morning! Cody called us around 7:30 pm to see if it was okay. We headed for the airport to pick him up, got there at midnight, and headed to a hotel in Park City for the night (The race was near Heber City). As you can see, the kids slept well...(it had been a long week and I think everyone had some sleep to catch up on!)
Well, everyone but Konrad. Lucky me, he woke up bright and early!
Cody's race was a 12-mile race full of obstacles and challenges (he threw a spear, rolled through mud under barbed wire, shot a pellet gun, climbed rope, hauled rocks and sand bags, jumped through tractor tires with his legs bound together, among lots of other things!) It took him about 2 hours 47 minutes. He was REALLY happy he got to do this. It's one of those things on his "bucket list". When we were checking out the race we saw there was a Kid's Spartan Race that Corbett could do so we entered him in that. Below, Corbett and Konrad before his race...
We had no idea when to expect Cody at the finish line. He couldn't carry a phone (which wouldn't have mattered anyway because Kennedy thought the toilet would be the perfect place to dump Cody's phone!) so we didn't know where/how we would find each other. Luckily though, Cody finished just as Corbett's heat took off and Cody made it over to the Kid's Race and found us just in time to cheer him on through the whole course. I don't know if that meant more to Corbett or Cody!
Corbett coming down the mud pit...
And through the water...
He flew over the hay bales...
Going over the ropes...
All finished!
Corbett was pretty excited about his medal! He had to over, under and through several obstacles. It was a lot of fun for him. He didn't care for being dirty though...
Showing off his medal to his dad...
Washing up!
What a fun adventure!
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