MCB Swamp Romp

I've never heard of it, but from the looks of the website it's an obstacle course team relay. I'll check with my favorite Marine (Heidi) and see what she knows about it. Might have to dust off my combat boots too

Just found the link to last years photos, looks like this race might be fun.

http://www.printroom.com/event.asp?domain_name=pfp&group_id=64

Can you say Leptospirosis? lol... Looks fun though. I've never done this event. It says "teams of six"... is it a relay? How does this work?

I have ran it for the past 2 years.  it is super fun but also really hard.  its not a relay you start with your six person team and you have to finish with at least 5 of those members.  usually the obstacles are wooden walls,  the swamp and whatever else they can throw in the way.  if you have ever been on the Marine Corps base as you are coming in the front gate if you look to your right those are the "Swamps" that is what they call swamps.  You will get super muddy and the mud stinks but at the end of the race they have fire trucks spraying everyone down.  Oh one thing to watch out for is at the beginning of the race the course gets really backed up so if you actually want to compete you have to have a low number.  I would suggest long pants and boots,  if you dont have boots then ducktape your tennis shoes to your feet if you lose your shoes you get DQed

After all this, I'm not doing it.  My friend found someone else but I'm anxious to read the race reports from those of you who are doing it!

Edited by Happychick 2010-01-20 2:04 PM