A BIG TEAM WELCOME

You'll never guess what my daughter did this weekend, as a sort of "welcome to our team" project for her new job at Linfield Design. She got to participate in a Lozilu Women's Mud Run! I think they do them in lots of different cities throughout the year, but this one was held at the Stunt Ranch between Austin and Dripping Springs. It's not really a race, as they don't track times or anything. It's just a fairly hilarious way of doing a little teambuilding with your bff's or coworkers, while raising a bit of money to help fight leukemia. All you have to do is run/walk a mere 5k, while overcoming a few obstacles along the way. Oh yeah, and your team needs a cute name, and outfits to match.

Lexie's team called themselves the Double D's, or Dirty Designers.

Now, if you know my daughter at all, you know that she is more into dancing than jogging. Or climbing. Or getting dirty. But what the hey, it was for a good cause.

And they're off! They had different "waves" starting at different times, so some groups were already finishing up as Lexie's group took off. They had great music playing the whole time (I recognized a few of my Zumba songs) which inspired more than a few spontaneous spurts of "dirty dancing."

The best part was getting to see all the different costumes the groups chose for themselves. Several teams wore their hair in braids, and were dressed a la Hunger Games (I heard the announcer refer to one of them as the Tracker Jackers), some resembled Brave Merida, and others went for the more feminine ballerina look. Those tutus will never be the same!

We didn't know our way around well enough to get ahead of Lex and see her going over all the obstacles, but if you click on the Lozilu link above, you can see examples of what they had to deal with along the way. We finally caught up with her just in time to see her entering the final mud pit.

She wasn't exactly smiling when she came across the finish line, but after she had time to catch her breath and gulp down a bottle of water, she finally admitted that it was "kinda" fun.

When asked if she would be willing to do it again next year, she would only say "Well, if I do, I'm training for it this time!"