When we reached the 10th obstacle dubbed the "Warrior Wall," there was a serious wait. The obstacle required competitors to climb up a 15 foot wall using a rope then climb down the other side. This created a bottleneck because of the mass amount of people trying to get over a wall with only 7 ropes on it. Thus, I believe my time was closer to 35 minutes, but since everyone had to wait I think I deserved the 530th place.
As for my age group of males aged 20-24 years, I finished in 113th place out of 533 racers.
I had a great time at the race. It was muddy, tiring, and exciting. The ground was mud, rocks, and tree roots. This makes complete sense because we were running through the woods majority of the race. Going into it I expected the running to be the easy part in comparison to the obstacles. While this was true with some obstacles like the "Barricade Breakdown" it was the opposite with the "Warrior Wall." The "Barricade Breakdown" consisted of jumping over 5 foot walls then immediately rolling under barbed wire. There were probably five sets of this motion. Turns out it was a lot harder than I thought it would be, but now I have motivation to prepare for the GoRuck Challenge in August.
My only problems with the Warrior Dash were the people walking from the wave before me that got in the way and the parking. We parked in a field that turned into a mud pit very quickly. With thousands of people there the mud pit was pretty deep too. However, they did take care of it as best as they could by putting rocks down and other things.
Overall, Warrior Dash was pretty sweet. I got real muddy...
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