The Before
Warrior Dash is advertised as the "craziest freakin day of your life"; well they got that right. Aimee and I traveled to KC the night before the run so we could hit up the power and light district one last time before moving to Farmington. The next morning we had our race at 9:30 am followed by a quick turnaround for the Kenny Chesney show at Arrowhead that afternoon/evening.
When we went down to our car in the parking garage Saturday morning (7:30 am) it would not start. All power worked but nothing when we turned the key. BIG problem. The race is 17 miles north out by the Airport and we are stranded, except our life saver Ashley was staying at the same hotel as us. She too was going to the concert and running Warrior Dash, but not until Sunday. We're sure she appreciated our wake-up call, especially when we ask to borrow her car.
Drive north, talk to insurance and towing about car issue, can't find parking lot, backtrack after directed by police officer, board bus (8:55 am), continue to deal with car issues back at hotel via phone, return to where we just came from, pick up bibs (9:18 am), bathroom, pre-race pictures, stretch (kinda), back of pack in line, get talked into doing some pull-ups, race begins (9:30 am), complete 3.10 hellish miles included: barbed wire, river crossings, tires, muddy hills, balance beams, hay climbs, wall drops, nets, fire, and mud pit with barbed wire (10:15 am), get medals, wait in line for bags (10:35 am) take post-race pictures (10:40 am) try to hose off, catch bus back, continue to talk with companies about car issue, arrive back at hotel (11:30 am), realize tow truck came by but could not locate car in parking garage, find new tow company, get late check out, try to remove all mud, tow truck arrives (12:30 pm), back up traffic in parking garage while tow truck loads car, tow guy informs me he could have fixed problem himself says it is security issue and tells me what to do, call mechanic to let them know I will be by shortly, meet Ashley in lobby with all our stuff plus hers to head to Arrowhead (1:00 pm), tow guy calls back and has car running is on his way back to hotel, have own car again (1:15 pm), McDonalds, Wal-Mart, check into new hotel by Arrowhead, meet concert group (2:30 pm) set up tailgate, tailgate in parking lot (3:30 pm), head in for Zac Brown Band (6:00 pm), Kenny (8:30 pm), Encore (11:00 pm) take down tailgate (11:45 pm), walk across street to hotel, hang out in parking lot, get to room, watch ESPN (1:00 am) Bed.
Craziest Freakin Day of Our Lives!
Kenny and Zac
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