Hard Charge Obstacle Course

Amy recently planned a quick trip home to visit the family.  I stress that it was a whirl wind weekend.  She flew in at 9:30pm on a Friday and was flying home at 9am on a Tuesday.  That left three tiny days to push in a whole lot of fun.  Amy and Melissa enjoy doing races together recently, so we checked what race was available and found out it was the Hard Charge Obstacle Course.  If you remember, Amy recently did an obstacle course and as it didn't' kill her ~ she felt another was a breeze (She Was Wrong, but more on that later)!

Melissa hooked Amy up with some sweet pink socks, a bandanna headband and of course black eye to make us look tough.  We brought mom along with us as our photographer. She was so worried how she would be able to find us.  We said; no problem - just look for our Sweet socks, Bright colored T-shirts and bandannas.  You will see why this was a funny concept later.  Here we are all cute just minutes before the big race.

The race was approximately 4.5 miles long and had 29 obstacles.  As Amy had done an obstacle run before, she was not worried.  What she wasn't aware of was that ND is full of a bunch of tough, crazy people who like to punish themselves with overly tough obstacles.  There were multiple half walls to throw your body over, plenty of muddy ditches, cargo nets, A-walls to climb over, dark tunnels, the back scratcher wires to crawl under, trip wires to jog through and of course plenty of mud hills.  A few of the obstacles were new to Amy (and were some of her favorites).  There was the "Drag Racer"; where we grabbed a tire and ran around the go-cart race track.  There was "Stormin' the Desert" where you army crawl in sand under a very small fence under a covered area.  We entered this together and at one point, Melissa lifted the flap to ask if Amy was OK.  Have to laugh now, but not funny at the time.  The "Jalopy Justice" where we ran up and over three separate cars.  The vertical vengeance; which was a wall at a 75 degree angle with only a rope to pull to get over it.  Not going to lie ~ this was Tough!  Amy had some help and then assisted additional help to her sweet and loving sister.  Such fun obstacles and Amy loved the friendly Midwestern camaraderie during the race!  Everyone was in this race to help all the finishers through the course.

Unfortunately, since the race was over 4 miles long; our photographer was only able to capture a few of the obstacles at the end.  This was the 29th obstacle and included 5 activities in the one obstacle called the "Abusement Park".  This included diving under a metal fence through the mud, pushing through and jumping through some tires, thrusting yourself over an 8 foot wall, rock climbing up to a fireman's pole and sliding down over 24 feet, only to run a few more feet to the finish line.  Whew, I am tired just telling you about it!

Melissa "busting" her way through the tires!

Melissa Thrusting herself over the 8 ft wall
(ps: AMY is on the other side giving her a LIFT!)

Yes, this is Amy TRYING to Thrust Herself over the wall...
(Notice Melissa giggling as she runs away)

Synchronized leg lifts ~ the next Olympic event?!?

Amy's Quote of the day:  "Seriously? Another Obstacle??!?!"

"FINE!  Let's Do This Thing!"



Whoa!  This is Pretty High Up!  You Sure About This?

We Will Finish This Thing... You Know WHY?!?!?!
We are Mattson's Damn It!

Nothing will Stop These Girls! We Definitely EARNED IT!

Yep, these sisters had an incredible time facing obstacles together and crushing them!  It was an incredibly tough race, but Amy was SO glad she was able to share it with her sister.  Oh, by the way ~ check out those Sweet Socks, Bright Colored T-shirts and Bandannas.... yup; they are a Little Muddy.  We were glad our photographer even recognized us!