SPARTAN BEAST 2012

13 miles. 25 Obstacles. 

Fun?

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My Best Buds. Love them!

Sam and Natalee

Yes, I am pretty nervous!

 Chase and Doug started off with us, but ended up taking off ahead of us.

 Tons of people at the starting line 

 We ended up running into some friends, Robert and Amber,

and they ran the rest of the race with us.

 HI

 Oh I hated crawling through that mud with all those rocks

only to get poked in the butt with barbed wire anyway....

 Sammy! Always smiling

 Natalee thinks its fun too :)

 Oh yeah, Im good.... 

Robert holding up the wire for Amber..

What a good boyfriend! :)

 Chase and Doug doing their burpees... 

 Three Amigos... 

Trying to look like we're not in as much pain as we actually were... 

By this point my knee had given up on me and was screaming at me

 I missed... 

 So did Natalee, so we are also doing burpees... 

Are we done yet??? 

 Thanks Nat! 

   

 Oh that beautiful finish line!

 YAY! We're done! And we survived!

 Filthy Animals! 

 We weren't able to get more pictures because the spectators weren't allowed in most places. But Matt did a great job getting as much as he could. 

this isn't something I could have done without photographic proof.

:)

The Aftermath!

Well.....SOME of it! 

I ended up covered in bruises, scrapes, welts and other painful swollen injuries throughout my body! These are just a few i was able to take with my cell phone camera. 

The worst ones are all up and down my legs, arms and elbows, 

although I have a few on my hips and stomach.

 My knee

 This bad boy is huge! Its much more swollen than it looks here...

I'm gonna be hurtin' in the morning....haha
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These are photos taken by the Spartan Photographers...
Not the greatest, and its kind of disappointing they didn't get more obstacles...