Tough Mudder Tahoe 2013

I guess sloshing through mud for 10+ miles last October wasn't enough for a lifetime so Eddie signed up to do it again in Tahoe. The event was held at Northstar Ski Resort in the Truckee, CA area. We had a 45 minuted drive to the parking area and then rode a school bus for 45 minutes to the location of the event. Not ideal, but we missed the window for the parking at the event. It wasn't too bad actually. The area is beautiful. When we got there we could immediately see that it was much bigger and busier than the one in Beatty last year. Eddie registered, found his group and then we went off to wait for his start time around 10:30am.

We caught him at the starting line and then immediately took a chairlift up to the top of the mountain to catch one of his events. He had several events and a several mile run up to the top of the mountain. We wouldn't have been able to see any of the obstacles for that section of the race. The chairlift was an interesting experience for me since I have trouble with heights. Not to mention have Nate on there with us. I had a death grip on him and the bar over our laps the whole time. It was a beautiful view though. At the top we sat and ate some lunch and watch other people going through the Electric Eel while we waiting for Eddie's group. We waited for quite a while and thought we may have missed them somehow, but we finally saw them. Then we headed back down the mountain on the chairlift to try and catch some more of his events.

At this point the day for me got more frustrating. We were supposed to take a different lift over in another direction to the next set of events, but it was running really slow. By the time we got there we had missed a few events, but caught up with his group and saw a few things. We had to do quite a bit of walking ourselves to catch him. Then we needed to head back down the mountain to catch the last 2 events. We couldnt take the lift so we hiked down. We did it, but it was a pain and took a while. We ended up missing the last 2 events and Eddie found out after he had finished. I was bummed that we missed him finishing and it had been a long day. We jetted out of there pretty quickly so we could catch a bus back to the parking area before the lines got really long. Long day for everyone, but definitely an interesting experience.

On the bus with his new Camelback from Grandma and Grandpa

Every wave had this many people. Craziness!

Eddie hopping the wall to get into the starting pen

Nate and I on the chairlift. The 4 of us rode together.

Lunch at the top of the mountain

Nathan's self portrait

The Electric Eel - yes they get shocked

His group from work

Muddy hand from high fiving Daddy

Walk the Plank

Cage Crawl

All done - the orange headband means he finished

Eddie isn't signed up for another race yet, but it's only a matter of time. They have another one in Tahoe in September, but we'll miss that one since it's coming up so soon.