Picking up from last time –
There were some obstacles that surprised me. There was this one where we had to pick up a heavy log and a lighter log, and carry them around a little extra trail.
I’d gotten kind of used to the idea of guys and girls having different weights in obstacles that involved carrying or lifting. But alas, no. We all grabbed from the same pile. This should be empowering, but it made me a little nervous.
I asked if we didn’t think we could handle the weight if we could burpee out of this one. And the volunteer said no. No? I thought we could burpee out of any obstacle we wanted.
(I mean, I think technically you can do whatever you want, as I met another racer later who’d talked about burpee-ing out of things you technically weren’t supposed to because he didn’t feel he had the time for them, while trying to get in the whole trifecta-in-a-day.)
Things got a little lax later in the day, but during The Beast, I tried to follow all the rules to a T. So, I picked up my heavy and light log and made my way around the little trail. I know we probably should just totally believe in ourselves and not be pleasantly surprised when we can do something simple such as carry logs around – but I was, nonetheless.
And I was really happy the volunteer said I couldn’t burpee out of that, because it allowed me to surprise myself, which was awesome!
In true Spartan fashion, at every obstacle, people were helping each other, giving each other boosts and that sort of thing. But dum, dum dum (*scary chords*), there was one (just as in Temecula) where people were not as uplifting – and it was the same one!
Thankfully, there were people in front of me during the barbed wire crawl this time around. So, I wasn’t taking the brunt of any yelling. But there was a girl behind us who was all, “uh, move it!” And the guy in front of me shot back, “I can’t when there are people in front of me.” And she called right back, “They’re not right in front of you! There’s some room!”
So, yet again, there was an angry woman behind me on that obstacle. I’m wondering if maybe there needs to be two lines for the barbed wire crawl – the one for those who have no patience (which I get it, I guess, they may be going for a PR or something), and the one for the rest of us. Something to think about, Spartan?
There was only one obstacle that was genuinely scary – which I’ll get to next time!