Around February, Jackie sent me an instant message at work and asked me if I would do the following with this: http://www.gladiatorrocknrun.com/. My reply was, “You don’t know me at all! Why would you think I’d be interested in such a thing!” and she rebuttal with “Look at the obstacles though.” So I did and changed my thinking to, “Oh, this looks like fun.” Long story short, I signed up and got Mike and Tina to as well and there we were, a team of 4 we like to call, “Mikey’s Angels”.

After I paid my registration, I immediately had buyer’s remorse. I was so nervous that I felt the need to somehow take control of the situation. “I know, I’m going to start training.”

I haven’t ran since high school, so no better time than now than since I still have a couple months to get ready. I talked to Van, the family runner, then I looked up “How to Train for your First 5K Race” online and found a great program. I started jogging/walking and by a couple of weeks before the race, I went from walking 4 minutes then jogging 1 minute to jogging 2 miles straight. According to Van, I was ready. Then I got this cough and wasn’t able to run the 2 weeks before the race! DOH!

Teamwork

Down the mudslide

The day of the race came and we had so much fun! The first half was a lot of running and tires, tires and MORE tires. After the first real obstacle in my opinion, the mud slide, things really picked up. We had to climb walls, crawl through mud, jump into mud pits, jump over fire and so much more. It was so much fun doing it with Mike. He was definitely our anchor. He helped us guys over the big wheels and any hurdles we weren’t able to do ourselves. The teamwork was awesome. Jackie would wait for me (the weakest link on the team, btw) and take pictures of all of us. The photos are hilarious and so worth it!

Dirty, but we did it!

We rewarded ourselves (we finished the race in 54 minutes) with some Shik Do Rak, now deemed the “Meal of Gladiators”, celebrated and thanked our cheerleaders (Khoa & Bao) for coming out to support us and take pictures.

I have a feeling we will be doing this again. Can’t wait until next year!

Good job, Team!

this year was no different. average ngo’s vs. hike (or hike-y as we like to pronounce it) and they killed us. (not to say we didn’t get our moment of glory…my amazing pass back to khoa who took it home for our 1st touchdown — victory! we reached our goal for the year). thanks to the benchwarmers (an, trang & duy) we have over 100 pictures…hahaha.

Average Ngo’s

take a HIKE

Last night I played with Mike, Thanh & Bao. It’s an official match. We’re training Thanh. The game of the year will be Thanh against Anh 2 Doan! Come out and support your favorite rookie!