Back in November or December I signed up for a mud run with
Mud Factor. I signed up during a “special
pricing” window for (I think) $35 but every time I looked at the website, it
was always the same price. So, I’m not
too sure about that special pricing. I think
they were on Groupon too.
Anyway, I didn’t get ANY communication (besides the sign up
email) until the day before the race. I
thought surely there would be some sort of communication, but nope. Luckily, the day before the race they did
send something, otherwise I would have completely forgotten!
I got there about 30 minutes before the race (they suggest
an hour) and parked haphazardly. They
were directing us to park really close together but we were blocking everyone
in. At the end I had to wait 30 minutes
for someone to move their car enough for me to get out. AND you had to PAY $10 to park. They did say that in the sign up but for us
to get blocked in and have to park, that is no Bueno.
I got my bib, bandanna and temporary tattoo quickly and
walked around a bit looking for at everything.
They were charging $25 for a t-shirt (!!!) that they probably got for
$6. The food and drinks were not
included like most races, not even something like a bottled water or bananas
were free! There was water after the
loop (two loop course) but that‘s it.
The obstacles were cool, two were walls you had to climb,
one was a slip in slide down a hill (!!!!!!!), a cargo net walls, barbed wire
through mud, etc. I was only going to do
one loop because it was lame, but I wanted my medal so I did a 2nd
loop. I got my medal and took a picture
of myself caked in mud. There were some
showers that were pumping water from the local creek. Some people were just wading in the river to
get the mud off. No one (that I know of)
got bit by an alligator though. LOL.
I got back to my car, changed and waited for someone next to
me to move their car so I could get out.
The parking situation really irked me, can you tell? LOL.
Anyway, all in all mud races are not for me. I for sure would NOT recommend Mud Factor as
the race to go with.
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