Race Review - Rugged Maniac

OCR season is winding down.  It is a predominately summer season, for reasons that are obvious.  Granted there are winter ones but they are few and far between and suck.

We had never done Rugged Maniac and drove about 3 hours to do it.  This was a double header day for us.

The event was at a ski resort - who knew that Indiana had so many ski resorts?  Haha!  We were running a little behind and once we got there the registration line was huge.  We heard of several people that was signed up to run the elite and had over an hour wait time in the lines and missed their heat.  While it isn't a big deal for us because we run for the fun of it - the elites are a different story.  They run to qualify for the world OCR.  So I can understand their frustration.

We were in line for quite a while.  Once we got up there, they gave me a men's shirt.  Matt asked for a women's shirt for me and I heard them say they ran small so I got a large.  It still doesn't fit.  I was bummed because I really liked the shirts.  Blah.

Start times were every 15 minutes and ours was at 10:15.  We were soon in the corral and were off.  Holy hills.  Hills...Hills....Hills.  Not as bad as the Indy sprint but they were hard on the legs.  I like hills though.  So I didn't mind them.

There were a couple obstacles that I hadn't seen at other OCRs before.  So that made it fun.  Most of the obstacles were not impossible.  The rings were slick and no one was doing that great on them. I often wonder why they put rings or metal things in mud OCRs?

There wasn't a lot of "mud" which I actually liked.  I enjoy mud races but I liked that it was wet and muddy but I wasn't caked with it afterward.

The warped wall made me nervous.  I have seen them at several events we have been to and never attempted.  While this one was shorter, I was still nervous and almost backed out and took the ladder up.  But seeing everyone attacking it and seeing the guys helping everyone over it, I decided to go for it.  It was exhilarating.  I felt pretty beast even though I didn't do it on my own.  But I can say I have done it!

Then the Accelerator was kind of scary.  It was a pretty high up warped slide into a pool of water.  It was fun but Matt ended up kicking me in the head.  haha....but it was all good.

Overall it was a fun race and would be a good one for a first timer.

So the review of the event Rugged Maniac
Terrain - trails, hills, ski resort
Organization - organized okay but the registration line was crazy long
Cost - $50 plus $10 parking
Time of the race - 10:15am
Overall - was fun, not too challenging and would do it again
Swag - a medal and tee (tee was way to small and even got a bigger size)
My Time - untimed
Race #27 (47 total to date)