The Urbanathalon! The guys did GREAT! The wives are proud!

The title pretty much sums up this post! The Men's Health Urbanathalon took place this past Sunday and Matt did GREAT!! So did Jason! They both placed in the TOP 10%! Matt placed 111 out of 1137 competitors and Jason was 1 step behind him at the finish line. Way to go guys!!!

The Urbanathlon is a 12.5 km run (that's about 7.75 miles) that includes obstacles along the way. While the obstacles vary a bit depending on the city that the race is held in, the obstacles in Singapore included jumping hurdles, racing up stairs, climbing a wall, crossing monkey bars, crawling through tunnels, stepping in and out of tires, wading through a pool of water and crawling through a pit of mud before sprinting to the finish line. Amanda and I teamed up by spliting up throughout the course to try to catch Matt and Jason at as many as the obstacles as we could. The guys has SO much fun and looked great out there. We're both SO proud of our husbands and you should be too ;) Haha :)

Matt standing in our teeny tiny kitchen before the race at 5:30 a.m.!

The first obstacle was the hurdles. They were allowed to get over them any way they wanted, but both feet had to touch the ground between each hurdle.

Matt is in the orange and Jason is in the yellow on the right.

Look at that great form :)

The next obstacle was the stair climb, but neither Amanda nor I made it to that so the next one up for us was the wall. Again, they could get over it any way they wanted!

Go, Matt, Go!!!

Look at that, he even had time for a smile and a wave!

Jason's turn on the wall. Go, Jason, Go!!

Jason had time for a smile and a wave too! This race was a piece of cake for our guys :)

Next up was the monkey bars and tunnel crawl...

Jason is on the bars!

Jason on the left and Matt on the right. They made it look so simple, when really, I saw countless guys fall off the bars before they got to the obstacle!

There they go just after crawling through the tunnels.

The next two obstacles were the tires (where they just had to step in each one) and the "leap of faith" where they had to jump into a large pool of water and wade through it. We weren't able to make it to those two obstacles, but thankfully, Amanda made it to the best obstacle of all...

THE MUD PIT!!

Approaching the mud pit...

...and they're IN! Nothing like crawing through a stinky pit of mud :)

Almost through!

Jason gets out...

Matt gets out...

Run, Matt, Run!

I made it to the finish line just in time to see our mud-covered husbands sprint to the end!

Just a few more steps guys!

Matt crosses the finish with Jason right behind him. GOOD JOB MATT AND JASON!!

Worn out and muddy after a great race!

For some reason though, I didn't feel like giving Matt a hug when the race was over ;)

If any of the male blog readers want to compete in the Urbanathalon in the states, I think the next one is in Chicago!

Are we the only couple that still owns rollerblades?

I'm going to start this post by bragging on Matt for a second! He's been gearing up for an Urbanathalon  and has been working pretty hard to get ready. I know with all of the running and obstacle training he's been doing he is going to do a GREAT job. I can't wait for him to do it! (It's next week by the way, on Sunday the 31st...keep him in your prayers if you remember). So anyway, his friend Jason (you are probably familiar with him by now, he's been mentioned in a couple of previous posts) is doing the race with him so they've been training together. One particular Sunday morning Jason wasn't available to do the usual 10 mile run and darn it I could have kicked myself for something I said to Matt just the day before! See I had said in conversation "I'm glad Jason does those long runs with you. Otherwise I'd have to follow you on rollerblades to be your support!" Imagine my surprise when Matt later came up to me and said "guess who is rollerblading tomorrow morning??" So....I did it. I put those stinkin' rollerblades on and accompanied him on his long run. It wasn't without some difficulty...I mean, for one thing, I don't know how to stop so the tiny ramps we came to at underpasses caused problems for me...as in "if that person doesn't move out of the way in 2 seconds, we'll both be on the ground!"  Then there were the loose bricks on the ground that caused me to nearly fall more than once. Fortunately, I made it through and Matt adored me for the rest of the afternoon :)

That story leads us to this past weekend. Saturday was hot and sunny (no surprise of course) and when Matt came home from work the first thing he said is "this would be the perfect afternoon for us to go rollerblading together!" to which I said "ummm...that was a one time thing for me" to which he said "...but you were so good at it!" to which I said "ehhh, just don't really feel like it" to which he said "we can go to lunch first...anywhere you want!"....and I was sold. I can always be bribed with good food. So after lunch we made our way toward East Coast Park, a place that we've been meaning to go to for quite some time now. I must admit...the afternoon was lots of fun! We shared lots of laughs over funny signs throughout the park and over the poses we were doing for pictures. I even made a few videos for your viewing entertainment (at the bottom of the post). I'm sure we'll be back at East Coast Park again...and this time we won't wait 7 months to do it :)

East Coast Park

Matt getting ready to do some pro rollerblading ;)

Gotta stretch first...the sign says so...and I like to follow rules!

...but oh no! Matt didn't bring the suggested safety gear :(

...and we're off!

We passed this awesome, cable water skiing park. Perhaps next time we go, we'll give it a whirl.

Next was a stop at the Extreme Skate Park...where obviously, we did some extreme skating.

Ahhh, nothing like a refreshing drink!

Matt felt this was a fitting pose for the day...

...so he did it too!