Let me start this by saying, we are doing this. My fiance and I are avid mud run enthusiasts and we discovered there is a college spartan race (only like 2 miles, 15 obstacles), on our wedding day in the morning. We have decided to do this race and I have no idea what our team name should be. I was thinking something wedding themed. My entire bridal party has told me that they will do it with me, love them so much.
Re: PreWedding Race
Mudmaids and Doomsmen
Wedding cake and mud pies
Get me to the church on time
I hope I don't regret my wedding photos
What if you get a black eye or hurt yourself? What if that happens to someone in your bridal party? This just sounds like a nightmare. Aside from the logistics of running said race, getting totally cleaned up, then ready for the wedding. And then there's your energy levels as well. When are you setting up the hall or ceremony/reception space? Does that need to be factored into your "day of" timeline?
I love these races too. I've done quite a few. Not in a million years would I do one on my wedding day. It's too many variables out of my control that can fuck with my day. #1 being mud in the eye and a trip to the ER.
Not just no. Fuck no.
There were outdoor "showers" you could go to when you finished, and we were literally caked in mud head-to-toe so we stood in line for those. Had to stand in line and wait for them, and then it took several minutes to rinse off. Several more minutes to dry off. Several minutes to go back to registration and get our stuff (car keys and whatnot. Can't run with those). Took a while to get back to the car cuz of the location of the race relative to the parking area, and it took forever to find the car. So it took about an hour to get out of there.
We got home and spent forever hosing off in the backyard. Then spent forever in the shower. After all this rinsing and hosing and showering, I spent the rest of the day digging mud out of the inside of my ears, the edges around my nail beds, and trying to blow my nose enough to get it out, and for the next several days I could not for the life of me get the mud out from under my toe nails and finger nails.
I had a great time and loved doing it. Being dirty didn't bother me. My point is, there was zero chance of me being wedding-ready by the end of that. Not the mention the exhaustion and sore muscles.
Just for the hell of it, here's us at the end of the race:
I've spent all day doing Seneca 7 (7 people do a 77.7 mile relay race around seneca lake) so I think a quick little spartan race to start our day will be fine. If we get injured I'm sure people won't mind waiting around enjoying the food and drinks while we have a little hospital adventure.
Now back to the question at hand, team names!!!
They will care. They will care a lot.
I hope you feel proud of yourself for bullying a fellow bride, maybe that helps you with your own planning stress.
If you're looking for validation of your bad idea, maybe go ask your friends that are like so totes on board with this asinine idea.
If someone asked you the best way to jump off a cliff, you'd advise them not to jump, right? Well, the general consensus here seems to be that doing this mud run is the proverbial cliff. You're asking for team names, and we're telling you why this might not be a great idea.
9:30-4:30 is...not really all that long. Won't you be tired? Are you SURE your wp would even be into this (I can assure you I would refuse to participate)? Finally, don't use this to be a shitty host. Just skip it so you know your guests won't be ignored!