Race Review - ChicagoTerrain

This was a sketchy one. It is a company that travels and does OCRs at various locations across the country.  The reason it was sketchy was the weather.  It was gloomy and gray.  Once we got there - the heavens opened up.  It was a torrential downpour.  It rained buckets.  It was raining so bad that I couldn't even see.  We went to get our bib and lo and behold I didn't have my ID and Matt forgot my paper in the van.  So we had to trudge back through the sheets of rain.  By this time I had enough.  My mood was less than happy.

Finally the rain subsided and we were all drenched.  We did the 10K.  It was alright.  It seemed like a lot of walking and not that many obstacles.  It was around a motor speedway and some of the obstacles were climbing bleacher stairs - that royally sucked.

Once we got to the end there was a rig about 5 or 10 feet up in the air.  We climbed one side, did a cargo net across then there was a fire pole we slide down and got our medal.

We went to find the cleaning station and it was not working due to lack of water.  We were informed that it would be 15 minutes or so.  We were on a time crunch because we had to drive 4 hours to Ohio for another race (yes, we are crazy like that).

We decided to just get back into a water tub underneath an obstacle to at least get some muck off.  As we were walking that way, I heard an odd cracking noise and looked as the rig that we were on about a minute or so prior crumbled and collapsed with people on it.  There were yells and screams.  I yelled at Matt, I do that in all crisis situations, and we ran to see if anyone needed help.  Everyone seemed okay for the most part.  It was the scariest thing I had witnessed in a long time.  The race crew had that cleaned up in record time.

Also, they charged to take pictures at the end.  Who does that?

So the review of the event Chicago Terrain
Terrain - grass, gravel, stairs
Organization - organized alright
Cost - $35 plus $10 to park
Time of the race - 9:00am
Overall - wouldn't necessarily do this one again, was rather boring not to mention the rig mishap
Swag - a medal and tee
My Time - untimed
Race #29 (49 total to date)