The real reason that the Co Founders of the Snazarella family find themselves in Hawaii was to meet "in the middle" to do some races with some dear friends from Australia. So, last November, when we were feeling very sad about leaving, Dave and I signed up to do a Spartan Trifecta in a weekend in Hawaii.
Mad right? Today was the day that we needed to put our bodies out there and do that which seemed so long ago to be a brilliant strategy.
We started with the Beast. It's the longest distance and is usually around 21k and we wanted it out of the way first. You can do the three races in any order you like over the 2 days.
In this photo we are still so blissfully unaware of what is ahead of us.
True to Spartan form at 0.5km we went for a swim. So for the rest of 6.5 hours our socks and shoes were soaking wet. Classic.
We are racing through Kualoa Ranch where Lost and Jurassic Park were filmed.
The views wereally stunning. The obstacles were very difficult.
Without question the hardest part of the Beast course was the time that we spent up in the mountain on sheer mud. Not deep mud, though there was lots of that too. This was mud so slick that if you were not holding on to a tree (many of them covered in thorns) you wouldn't be able to make any progress at all. We climbed up over this stuff, we climbed down over this stuff, we tried to walk on flat ground over this stuff. It was unrelenting. One of our kilometers up in that muck took almost 45 MINUTES.
There is video footage of me sliding down right off the path and only barely catching two tree roots on my way down to the valley below. (Don't tell my mom about that please).
Don't take my word for it though, just do a quick search around instagram and see all of the muscle bound athletes talking about how incredibly difficult this beast was.
We just kept taking it one step at a time.
So yeah, it was fun! We ran the beast and just barely made it back in time to be allowed to get back on course to do the Sprint (7km) course.
We stopped for a quick selfie (obligatory), changed some key clothing (for me it was my shoes and socks,
for Dave it was his shirt) and then strolled back out on to the course before the final call.
The Sprint felt like a walk in the park after that Beast. It covered the first and last 1/3 of the Beast course-no mud!! Some tough obstacles that we had already done but nothing sheer will and determination couldn't overcome.
Next thing you know, we had these puppies in our hands!
Which meant THIS!
So now, going in to tomorrow, we have done 2/3 of the races and have also covered 2/3 of the kilometres. I can live with that.
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