Originally Posted by Allegheny Jet

I'll put it in a woman's perspective. My wife said that next time I needed to take a hose to my kit before I bring it into our home. She is still a little ticked because after two washing machine cycles there is still some sand in the bottom of the machine. The mud and sand were caked to my lower legs at the end of the race, I peeled it off when it dried.

These images were early in the race. The first time "off the cliff" produced a pucker factor of around 9. It kept getting muddier as the race progressed. They made a "maze of mud" on a baseball infield that took about 1.5 minutes to get through. The slimy, slippery quicksand was the hardest thing I've ever done on a bike x 5 laps through.