Welcome to Wednesday Word, a weekly linkup for everyone, not just health and fitness bloggers. Each Wednesday you will have a single word prompt to write about. Let your imagination run free and share with your readers your interpretation of that word, or simply use it as inspiration for your post. Today’s word is annoying…… I’d love to have you link up, and if you do, please remember to follow my six simple rules.
Annoying – causing irritation or annoyance….
“It didn’t take long for all that mud to become very annoying.”
There’s a reason I’ve never done a mud run, and it became more and more obvious with every step I took this past weekend at Ragnar Relay Appalachians WV.
I grew up on a farm with plenty of mud and other aromatic mud-like substances all around the cattle barns. That was then, this is now.
Back then I was young and tough, now I’m not.
Back then I was a tomboy, now I’m a princess.
Back then I had overshoes, now I have trail shoes.
Back then I walked in it, now I run in it…
I have fallen in love with trail running over the last couple of years.
Give me a dirt trail winding up a mountain to a scenic overlook, and I’ll take it on with the excitement of a child running toward the tree on Christmas morning.
Throw in some rocks and roots and I will scramble over them without nary a complaint.
Give me a creek to cross and I will charge through it gleefully like a puppy splashing in water for the first time.
But give me mud – slippery, slimy, stinky, annoying mud…
Give me mud and I’ll find it annoying that my pace slows to that of a snail.
Give me mud and I’ll find it annoying when I slip and fall on my behind.
Give me mud and I’ll find it annoying when I hear that sucking sound and feel my foot slipping out of my shoe.
Yes, give me mud and I’ll find many reasons to be annoyed, yet a teeny tiny part of this princess will love feeling like a badass when I finish my run with mud all over me. Just don’t let me get any on my tiara!
What do you find annoying?
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Next Wednesday’s Word: Independent
Yuck!
I was suppose to run that but after much thought I decided against it-so glad I did! I too would have been annoyed!
Congrats on being a badass finisher!
We kept telling ourselves that it would be cool after the fact, and that we would have great stories to tell! 🙂
I am not a trail runner; too easy to trip! But mud – yuck! I did one race where we just had to run along the side of the paved path a little because it was flooded & obviously it was muddy – almost lost a shoe!
You are definitely one bada$$ princess!
Judy @ Chocolaterunsjudy recently posted…Running pet peeves: Wednesday word – Annoying
HaHa, thanks! 🙂
Funny, I couldn’t help but mention the mud, too! I definitely felt like a badass after running through it, but it really would have been a much better experience without it Maybe just a little mud would have been better!
Meagan recently posted…Annoying…..?
I think it would have been an amazingly fun experience without the mud. Just sitting around talking, laughing, and going for a run here and there…
I don’t mind running in the rain, but mud? Ick.
Wendy@Taking the Long Way Home recently posted…Annoyed
Yes, running in the rain is fine, but I got enough mud on me to last me a lifetime!
That mud was FOR REAL! I’m glad you got pictures of it because you know, that stuff washes off (maybe) but the memories and awesome stories last forever!
Anne recently posted…What’s Annoying?
OxiClean got the mud out of all of my clothes, but it’s going to take an industrial strength pedicure to get my toes back to normal! 😀
That amount of mud is insane! That would be enough to make me curse lol
I am so impressed you made it through that mess. I love to run a good trail but that much mud, I probably would have packed up and gone home. Yes, this is also why I will NOT do a mud run 🙂
karen recently posted…Annoying
I think that being part of a team made it more bearable!
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