Ft Gordon Marine Mud Run

The Screeching Seagulls made a strong showing at the Ft Gordon Marine Mud Run over the weekend. The event was once again well-organized and quite a blast. We entered the event as a non-competitive team this year, and were the second group to start after all of the competitive teams had started. About a hundred yards into the race there is a big mud pit followed by a big mud pile we've dubbed Mt Suribachi with a Marine up on top manning a fire hose. By the bottom of Suribachi we had already overtaken one of the two non-competitive teams that started in front of us, and from then on we were flying. In the end, after mud pits, walls, bars, tires, a run down the middle of a stream, and a big sandy hill, we finished in about an hour and ten minutes. Of 47 male competitive teams, only 12 finished faster than our time, and only 4 were significantly faster. We'll have to train for next year and give it a run...