Ryan Hale http://ryanjhale.com My life and times, stories and happenings Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:33:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Murder Mystery Dinner Night Out http://ryanjhale.com/2012/01/22/murder-mystery-dinner-night-out/ http://ryanjhale.com/2012/01/22/murder-mystery-dinner-night-out/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:33:13 +0000 Ryan Hale http://ryanjhale.com/2012/01/22/murder-mystery-dinner-night-out/ Anthony and Jolene hosted quite a bash last night.  Everyone was dressed in character for dinner and a whodunit.  Tons of fun and Jolene is a great cook!

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Top 10 Places to Eat Ice Cream

 

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With that in mind, I'm not altogether sure what possessed me to try this, but some folks on my team at work started talking about this race that they were going to do here in town called the Rugged Maniac.  They had done some similar races earlier in the summer, the Warrior Dash and the Tough Mudder, and listening to them discuss those, I was a little jealous that I hadn't signed up previously and given it a shot.

Yesterday was the day to be one of the crazy Maniacs doing the race.  Thankfully, it was a nice day.  About 80 degrees.  That's notable because I've seen snow in mid-October here in Denver, so I was thankful that didn't happen!

To give you a sense of what the race was like, I've added a quick promo video and a few of our pictures below.  Suffice to say that yesterday kicked me in the pants and I'm still feeling it, but I'm glad I did it.  I might not do this particular race again, but I'm thinking that it would be great to try some of the other similar races again next year.

On to the pictures:

A little pre-race bravado:

After several mud bogs, I decided I wanted to backstroke this one...

The end of the race.  Battered, bruised, and beaten:

But not without a little celebration with my friend Jose (who beat me by at least 15-20 minutes!)

And some post-race group shots in front of the port-a-johns:

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Speaking of memories, here are a couple of pictures of our family right after they gave Ellie to us.  We've shown these pictures many times, but I've always thought that they best captured the moment.  Thanks Barb for snapping those pictures for us!

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Happy Father's Day!

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