Mudderella

MUDDERELLA 

I wanted to take some time and write about the amazing experience we had at Mudderella this year.  

Haven't heard of Mudderella before?  

Check out this video for a glimpse of what it's about.

It is a world class, 5-7 mile long, muddy obstacle course.  Designed by women and run by women.  It featured 14 obstacles with some pretty fun names like:

• Skinny Jeans
• I Got Your Back
• Hay Girl Hay
• Down to the Wire
• Ain't no Mountain High
• Wheels in Motion
• Dirty Downward Dog
• Break the glass Ceiling
• Hat Trick

This is totally out of my element.  Maybe you're like me, I'm a mom of three, with a full time office job, and here is a crazy event of crawling through the mud and water.  Sound like fun?  

Honestly it kinda-sorta did, am I weird??   Maybe I don't get out much but I loved this idea of doing something that you totally wouldn't normally do and the idea of helping other people through an obstacle course and showing some GIRL POWER!

The theme to Mudderella is to "Own Your Strong"

Empowering women to take pride in their strength.  To do something they may not think they could do.  To step out of the grind of day to day life, work, kids, grocery shopping, and prove to yourself you are so much stronger than you think.

This truly was an event about team work, encouraging others, and just stepping outside of your comfort zone.  I think it's safe to say we all gained a little more confidence and realized that we CAN do anything we set our mind too.  Even crawl in mud!  We all just had a really uplifting and motivating morning doing this all together.
   

The whole team felt Mudderella ran so smoothly!  Probably because it was run by women right ?  ;)  

They had a booth to get decked out in tats and ribbons.  They had showers at the end of the course so you could wash off your shoes, feet, clothes, hair, face, arms, legs. etc. (because you always wonder if you're going to have to drive home as a stinky muddy mess in your car right?  

They had a change tent so you could get out of the muddy clothes and into your clean ones.  

They had booths for free stuff AND they had a FREE celebratory beer waiting for you after you completed the course.  I kept checking throughout the morning to make sure I still had my freebie beer bracelet on!  Didn't want to lose that!

After completing the course you also earned a Mudderella headband and T-shirt to remember the event.  

I would highly recommend anyone to do something like this.  Just out of your comfort zone a bit.  You can see that you really are able to do anything you set your mind to.

Thanks ladies for a fantastic day and great memories!



 "Mudderella was such an empowering event that helped me prove to myself that I am stronger then I think I am. I was surrounded buy a great group of woman who all worked along side me to get through and obstacles, and encouraged me to keep going. We all had each others backs though the entire course and it was very motivating. I definitely gained more self confidence from this event and took some new friendships and stronger existing friendships away from it as well. My favourite obstacle was the giant slip n' slide. It was such a rush, so much fun! I can't wait to do it again next year!"  -- Rebecca Swartz







 "The Mudderella experience was something that I am so excited and proud to say I completed.  I wanted to commit to finishing all obstacles and I did it!  Setting a goal for myself and seeing it all the way through, (even when I didn't want to train or do one of the obstacles that were way outside my comfort zone) is an amazing feeling !  "   -- Jody Weiss

"Mudderella was so awesome. The atmosphere was full of energy with so many women out to have a great time together. I showed myself I was stronger than I thought and had fun doing it. I will definitely be back next year"  -- Pam Law

"I'm glad I took part in Mudderella because so often women lack confidence in themselves and miss out on fun and cool opportunities because of fear of the unknown. Mudderella showed me many things. Women being kind and supportive to one another instead of judging. Women challenging themselves - their minds and bodies. Women trying something new outside of their comfort zone. Women digging deep and realizing that they could conquer their fears. Women having fun during fitness. Sure my legs were a bit sore from the Bingaman's hills, but aside from that, the gain of the amazing experience was well worth it." 
 -- Amy Ballantyne

"The Mudderella event was great. All of the obstacles were challenging but still easy enough to complete. There was nothing a little mind over matter couldn't beat. Looking back its amazing to know we all ran the 9km race with obstacles. The atmosphere was so supportive with other women cheering everyone on and helping people along the way. I look forward to doing it again next year. "  -- Nikki Cee