On Sunday, Micah and two friends completed a Spartan Race (the 5K Sprint event which has 20 obstacles along the route) down in Colorado Springs. One of the other boys' dads drove them all down and wonderfully managed to take a bunch of pictures for those of us who didn't make the drive...

It sounds like they had a fabulous time! One of the friends ran on his own and apparently won their heat. Micah and the other friend stuck together and were rejoined by the other friend at the end. According to Micah's text to me afterward, "the obstacles were awesome...i need to start doing cardio." LOL.

And here they are after the race...

Yes, they were filthy. They also got sunburned. (According to Micah, they thought they'd be getting all muddy and wet and it would wash off any sunscreen so didn't put any on. As it turned out, those obstacles came later in the race so there was plenty of time where sunscreen would have helped. When Micah left the house, he'd been telling me that he was going to wear long sleeves and long pants because of barbed wire and such, so I didn't think to remind him about sunscreen. Oh well. Micah's a bit red but claims he's nowhere near as bad as his friends.)

And now they have plans to complete more races...