I lined up with Sarah and Clayton at the starting line, feeling good, making jokes, and a little anxious. Finally the race starts. right away is some tires for some high knees, done. easy enough. next we have to run on the beach, that sucked a little but not terrible. I'm thinking to myself "where is the mud?!" as we ascend a small hill and turn a corner, the first mud obstacle. an above ground square pool about 2 and a half feet deep with some ropes criss crossed over the top so you have to put your head in the muddy water. i see some people in front of me dive in head first so i go for it. i know it is going to be shallow so i went with the shallow water dive. my hands hit the bottom and my left in particular. my left had scraped along some rocks at the bottom that felt like concrete as opposed to sediment. i pop out covered in muddy water and look at the flap of skin that i now have on my palm. it looked bad but i didn't think it was deep, so i continue.
the next obstacle is a wall with a slid on the other side. at this obstacle there is a bit of a line up, as i stand there waiting, i look at my hand and blood is dripping from my fingers.
"oh man that looks bad" Sarah said.
i took a closer look and realized that under the flap is a gash that was a portal to my thumb meat.
Danny said to Sarah "i think i need to get it checked out".
and with that i left the race...... :(. it took a while to actually leave the event to go to the doctor so i waited towards the end of the race and when Sarah came around (she left Clayton to the wolves) i jumped back on course to finish with her.
Molly and Evelyn took me to the Urgent Care (which only took a half hour from check in to back in the car, not bad at all). to make this short and not too yucky, the doctor pushed on my wound, and fat squirted out. ( that wasn't too yucky was it?).
"Oh whoa" said the doctor. "i am going to have to stitch you up."
4 stitches in the palm of my left hand. next year i am wearing gloves.
2 comments:
Thanks for sharing this - what an event! Hope you are healing up well!
I couldn't help it... at first I laughed at the video. I think it was the cheesy background music. Then I cried like a 2year old whose mom wouldn't buy them that awesome hot wheel conveniently placed in the checkout line at K-Mart... One of these years I'll have the balls to participate in Muds to Suds. Hopefully sans injury.
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