Getting their game faces on to tackle 2016 Run Amuck at Quantico Marine Base. 2500 people tackling the mud. @wtop pic.twitter.com/kFapOOGAhS
— Kathy Stewart (@KStewartWTOP) June 4, 2016
Nothing like a nice mud bath on a Saturday morning. 2016 Run Amuck at Quantico. @WTOP pic.twitter.com/Ay0qh06DyR
— Kathy Stewart (@KStewartWTOP) June 4, 2016
Shower anyone? 2500 participants in the Run Amuck and mini Run Amuck at Quantico Marine Base. @WTOP pic.twitter.com/9O3WviRmA2
— Kathy Stewart (@KStewartWTOP) June 4, 2016
Victory! Run Amuck 2016 done! @wtop pic.twitter.com/gq8KWEYERe
— Kathy Stewart (@KStewartWTOP) June 4, 2016
QUATNICO, Va.– It was a muddy mess Saturday at Quantico Marine Base, where about 2,500 adults and kids tackled the 2016 Run Amuck and Mini Run Amuck.
It’s the ninth year for the Marine Corps Marathon’s messiest run.
The Run Amuck is 4-mile course of steep hills and trails on the Marine base with 25 obstacles and challenges and, of course, mega mud.
It includes three murky mud pits and several mud crawls. The Mini Run Amuck is a 2-miler that’s just as muddy, though it is more family-friendly.
Hailey Adams, who just graduated from high school on Friday, was running amuck with her mom and a few of her mom’s friends.
“Running Amuck, that’s my graduation gift, seeing some guys and running in the mud,” Adams said,
Her mother, Rhonda Adams had never done a “mudder” before. But she said she’s here out of love for her daughter.
“I’m here for her and her and her and her,” she said, pointing to her daughter and her other friends.
One of those friends is Andrea Landis, from LaPlata, Maryland. Landis said forget the mud. She said she’s here for the beer and the men.
Hillary Chan, from Herndon, Virginia had never done a “mudder” before but came dressed for the occasion.
“In my fantastic tutu, pink tutu,” she said.
Her friend Rebecca Loades , who lives in Arlington, Virginia, was also in tutu — hers was rainbow-colored. Loades said, laughing, that they were going to show the Marines how to do this mud run in a skirt. Loades said she’d be disappointed if she walked away with her skirt still looking pretty.
Both women said they won’t be walking away mud-less.
“I say the dirtier the better,” Chan said laughing. “Dirt in the skirt.”
“We came to get dirty,” said Chan.
