Jason and I had a relaxing weekend right before I went back to work. We had to get all of our house stuff together to make sure we were starting out ahead of the game, but then we decided to go to Casanel for lunch outside and some live music with the dog.
The following weekend was not so relaxing in our neighborhood. Last weekend the tough mudder took place at the farm right outside of our neighborhood, which was a TERRIBLE idea. First of all there is one small one lane country road going in and out of the farm. Second of all, that road leads to one exit off of route 15, and there were 30,000 people there. This also wasn't advertised to the general public or the surrounding neighborhoods. We literally couldn't leave our house. From route 15 to our house, which is about a mile, was a 3-4 hour trip. They couldn't get emergency vehicles through and it was so poorly planned and run, it couldn't have been any worse. To top it all off it started storming and was calling for tornadoes. They continues with the race. Jason and I walked down the street to see the zoo.
During the tough mudder you run through various obstacles and one of the obstacles is live wires and cattle prodders and you actually get shocked as you run through, while you are wet and muddy. Doesn't that look like a great idea in the storm???
Luckily, this was a 2 day event. The mayor of Frederick said that it was so poorly run that they cancelled the second day and Tough Mudder lost about 2 million dollars in revenue. It was absolutely insane here last weekend.
