Here we go

When I signed up back in October, the Tough Mudder date of May 31 seemed to be light years away. Now it's less than a week away. What.

How prepared do I feel?

Ehhhh. On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd say maybe a 6.

My two major goals before TM were losing some weight/fat%, and being able to do a pull up, and I didn't meet either of these goals. My weight is holding steady right in the low 150s and has been for the past month or so. This is entirely due to weekends. I keep having too much fun on the weekends and it seems to always involve some sort (read: lots) of calories. That said, I suppose having too much fun is a good problem to have, yeah? On the flip side, I DO have more muscles. I got definition in my arms and legs, so that's pretty cool.

As for the pull up, I have made progress - I can now jump up, hold myself up for a while and sloooowly lower myself down easily, whereas before I would jump up and immediately come back down again. I could barely even just hang there for any length of time. But I'm nowhere close to an actual pull up. Also, my dream goal was to rock the monkey bars and that is definitely not happening. I tried some kiddie monkey bars at the playground down the street last week and literally could not get from one bar to the second bar. I just can't support my whole weight with only one hand.

You look so deceivingly simple.

My running has been going well - I can fairly easily do over 6 miles at this point, which I think will be enough endurance to get me through.

My goals for TM:

1. Finish. Get orange headband. ???.  Profit.

2. Don't die or get horribly injured. 

3. Don't bail out on any obstacles without trying them just cause you're too scared (with the exception of the ice water one, no can do). I'm looking at you, Walk the Plank. And the electric wire ones. I want to finish feeling like I tried everything that I could. Even if I can't do some of the obstacles (monkey bars) at least I can say I tried them.

One obstacle I definitely want to complete is this one:

Basically a wall with tiny footholds and a rope to climb up. When I did the warrior dash last year, I couldn't get up this one. So if I can't do the monkey bars, I'm hoping to at least manage this one.

So there you have it. I'm anxious, excited, terrified. Recap coming in a week :) Wish me luck!