What did you do on Saturday? I competed in the CopperMan Adventure Race 3K at Copper Mountain. It is pretty epic when you get the opportunity to do a snow obstacle course in 80s gear. Saturday morning I woke up, did some stretches, and headed over to Copper with my friend Laura.
We prepared for months and months for this epic race*. Every day at 3am for 2 months preceding the race, we ran at least 5K in Denver**.
*There was no training for this.
**You are so gullible. I would never wake up at 3am to run.
The race began with a run up the mountain. It was a lot harder than it looks. Imagine running up a groomed slope with treaded out sneakers. Yup, that was what I was doing. There were a few people with what I can best describe as ice cleats but most were unprepared for the ascent. May I remind you that the base elevation of Copper Mountain is 9,712 ft.
Following the ascent, we had to slide down, essentially, terrain park jump landings. This photo gives you a good idea of what it looked like– unless you’ve slid down a snow hill in thin pants and no sled, you won’t know what it felt like. Suffice it to say, it didn’t feel great.
After the slide, there were some sticks we had to run through. We were supposed to dodge the sticks. After that there were barrels to crawl through, a haystack wall to climb over, a beach ball filled net-room to walk through, a leap of faith, a maze, and finally the hot chocolate pool. Along the way, people were cheering for me “Go Frankie Go!” or they would start singing the wonderful 80s hit by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
Laura was such a champ for jumping in. Little kids were throwing marshmallows, people were cheering and taking photos, madness!
The pool was super cold as you can see from her face. I didn’t want to get all chocolate-y. Overall it was a great day. I’ll definitely compete in the CopperMan next year!
