Big Week Coming Up!!

We here at the 50@50 Project strive to keep you, the reader and follower and supporter, entertained.  It's because of this crazy commitment that we will be attempting to hurt ourselves next week, not in one event but in three.

First up - Event 44:  This Sunday is an XDog Event (I could stop right there and you'd get the point) - Ole's Assault.  We've never done this race.  It's rumored to be the toughest, most badass XDog event on the calendar.  The website says the average racer will take 2 to 2.5 hours to complete the course.  An as yet to be determined number of miles in the forested mountains of the Coast Range near Astoria, OR with 'no less than 10 challenging obstacles' on the course.  Yippee. 

This fat kid is in trouble.

(Note to Kevin at XDog:  I love you and hate you.)

Next up will be Event 45:  Race #2 in the Portland Trail Series.  This one is an evening run on Wednesday.  If the first course we ran a couple of weeks ago,for Event 43, was any indication, these guys like hills.

Camera Crew - don't forget to wear your hair up...

And then, the following Sunday - Event 46 AND (more importantly) our first wedding anniversary!!!!  XDog's (there they are again) Ride-Row-Run, an extreme triathlon.  Yep.  This is how everyone celebrates their anniversary, right?  Right?  No?  Hmmm...
So our one year celebration will be in Maupin, OR where we'll bike 26 miles, then kayak the river for three miles, then run four miles to the finish line.  I'm going to say this now - ouch. 

What's that?  I could have just gotten Camera Crew some flowers and a card?  Son of a... 

So, yeah.  Three potentially grueling and painful events in 8 days.  I hope this makes you very happy.