We planned to have breakfast at Seaport but that plan was scrapped pretty quickly. No one could get up at the 8.45am alarm. I woke up about 9am, and just rolled around in the sleeping bag. Rachel, being who she is, had shared her blanket with Leo after waking up to go to the toilet at 5am. I, being blur as usual, had taken the sleeping bag and given Leo the air-mattress thinking it would be more comfortable for him. I was wrong. It deflated and he slept without a blanket, too. Cold and tough on the back. Sorry Leo! Isaac kept sleeping till about 10+. Had a few bananas and some of Rachel's amazing sandwiches for breakfast. This one was a leftover peanut butter and honey one. No one makes sandwiches/wraps like she does :P
Darshan, Rachel, Naz and Awis messaged us at 9+ saying they were headed to Seaport. They had breakfast there, and joined us at Evandale at the Van Diemon brewery at 11.15am. Our wave would start at 11.45am. We were greeted by a bunch of people running across the open, hilly region, completely covered in mud. Intimidating much! There was a light drizzle and the sun was hidden, but the brewery's grounds were well lit. Perfect weather for a mud run, as Isaac would say later.
When we were walking to the registration site, we passed by a guy shouting at the group, briefing them about the mud run like a captain would pep his army up before war. A bunch of people in Dinosaur onesies started running up the hill as we got up to the tent to register. It was pretty exciting, really. Even though I had complained/whined so much about joining an endurance event, I felt a little anticipation building up.
We left our bags at the bag-drop tents, pinned on our numbers and went down just in time for our wave to start. The first bit was an uphill run in over-trudged mud. Every step had us sinking in about half an inch. At the top, we got baptised in mud by rolling through a hole in the fence into a muddy puddle. It got pretty dirty pretty quick! In a few seconds Darsh, Rachel and I fell into a hole in the middle of the path filled with mud. The waist-deep muddiness quickly cleared any qualms I had about getting myself muddy. Rach(Chong)'s knee had been feeling pretty bad but apparently dancing the night before cleared up most of the pain and she was doing pretty well.
Things that I remember pretty well from the run:
1. People randomly laying out into mud.
2. Jumping over huge tyres and rolls of hay.
3. Major exfoliation while commander-crawling through mud.
4. Resting when Rach's knee started to hurt.
5. Freezing water. It did freeze balls.
6. Darshan sliding everywhere. We all slid down hills but Darshan just did it at ANY chance hahah.
7. Rachel(Ng)'s cleats dying.
8. Climb/jumping a hay-fortress.
9. There were different types of mud. Some smelled better than others. I got familiar with the taste of the brown mud. It was actually a little salty...
10. Tribal music played by the organisers.
11. Being covered totally in mud. Apparently my teeth had some too. Enough to look like they were missing.
12. Wishing for more mud when we got out of the water. It was so cold!
13. Spotting the barbecue before the race finished and getting really hungry halfway through.
I actually broke my one-meat-meal rule that day :/ and ate sausages. I also tried the Van Diemon beer and it was really good. So much depth in one drink. Never knew what I was missing till then! The beer. Of course. But food was after we showered. Which was really difficult. No idea where all the mud was coming from and we were shivering all the way to the showers, mud was still stuck in our hair after the showers.
After the barbecue we left for lunch, at Burger Got Soul because Koreana was closed. We had a little fiasco with Rachel's wallet, which had been left on the chair. It was missing and we thought someone had stolen it but it was really the staff who had kept it- LUCKILY. I had a vege-burger to restart my vegetarian-transformation. It was not bad but pretty expensive- I had Ya Gotta Have Soul if I remember correctly, 12.90. Chips were really good with the Dijon-Mayo though! After that, we left for Hobart. Leo driving the whole way though Rachel was protesting and asking to drive. That girl.. hahah.
So Launnie was good. I need to visit Burnie next, and check out more of Hobart soon.
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