The marathon involved crawling through the mud and jump over fire to 3.24 miles is an obstacle to complete. The top three won a total of hours for men and women war custom engraved steel helmet, the first three in each age group, men and women have a steel helmet Warrior trophy and a cash prize best costume, too.
The marathon takes place in various states throughout the year including Florida, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, among others. It also occurs in Australia.
It comes to New York for the second time on 13 August and 14. It will be held at Windham Mountain and 3.20 "hellish" mileage with 12 obstacles, including digging tunnels and scales of a black wall. It costs $ 65 to $ 55 on Saturday and Sunday.
Covered in mud from head to toe and dripping wet, Todd Perry was smiling Saturday among thousands of others who had just completed or on the verge of a very unusual five km race.
For one thing, the warrior Dash is held on Saturday and Sunday at DFW Adventure Park is not much of a race. Instead, there is a line - or walk, scoot, climb or run - in a dozen obstacles especially also promoted the fastest slow to a crawl, one that seems tailor-made for each participant in the fun they designed thinking of it as had a child sloshing through a stream or play in the rain have.
Message received, "said Perry, 35
"It's great to get out of here and go dirty and have a blast," said Perry, a financial consultant Allen, as the mud dried on him. "It's not something you do not."
The event is expected to attract about 17,000 "fighters" for more than two days and another 10,000 or more friends, family and onlookers. Registration for Sunday is closed.
The instrument panel itself is short - not more than 30 to 45 minutes for most people, although organizers said there was "Freaks", on at full speed from beginning to end, and can take about 18 minutes to exist.
But for the vast majority of the warriors, the course appeared to be custom designed to remind them that everything is the way - not the destination - that counts.
There were young people between the ages of 14 and grandfathers and brothers and groups of almost any kind of combination of teams splashed Saturday.
One family came from Oklahoma City with one thought in my head.
"Fun!" Les Hardy shouted with his wife and son and a few others, his silver hair light on dark, wet, brown mud from every other part of his fall.
Lol, yes, works well as a summary of what inspired the Chicago-enthusiasts who ordered the first shot in 2009, said Greg Bostrom, one of the coordinators of the national tour, the North Texas event runs Saturday.
He describes the competition as "an extreme obstacle course where you jump over the fire 5K and crawl through mud under barbed wire. Then you get the one day live music, giant turkey legs and cold beer to celebrate."
Last year there were 10 races, and this year it will be 35th The open field, where festivities take place after the race looked like a cross between a meeting of the Society for Creative Anachronism and Lebowski Fest, where Fred Flintstone costumes, Viking outfits, turkey legs and fuzzy, horned helmets had been the norm.
Standing near a sign that read "Mud, Sweat and Beer," the 20-year-old Kenny Chamberlin Plano took a break from hacking a nearby friend with a toy ax to admit he was not old enough to make the big beer jugs enjoy beer, which seemed to be everywhere.
But painted bare-chested, with mud everywhere and big red handprints on his face, he said he just have fun with mud and sweat.
"It was a little easier than I thought it would be," he said. "I think they kind of talk a little, but I had an advantage. I am a rock promoter, thus the slain of my heart, but I went all the obstacles It's a lot of fun .."
For 36-year-old Ruth Calzada, a minister in Fort Worth, was the obstacle more than a joke. The 12-foot wall, it was climbing to climb the cargo net, they had to knife fight, and 30-meter-long black tunnel had to crawl through, they said they need all the help their friends, who call themselves Team Nicole in honor of a friend with breast cancer were willing to give her.
"I'm not good with heights," she said. ".. And the wall and the luggage, they gave me trouble, but I heard my teammates yelling from the floor encouraged me to continue, it just feels so good to stand here and say:" I have it.
She had something other than the dirt along with the most finishers Saturday: It is prepared to do it again, and she is not sure she can wait until next year.
"I am happy to go where I can get it later. It's doing fantastic."
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