Devils Circuit

Last weekend we drove two hours to get to the outskirts of Delhi to take part in the Devils Circuit - a mud run/obstacle course that occurs twice a year here. The drive was so long because we had to get out to the construction site for Wave City, after all where else could you lay down a 5 km track, dig holes, make several pits of mud and in general make a mess of a space? A construction site has the added benefit of already coming with some of its own obstacle like the giant concrete pipes we clambered over and ran through. There we about 12-15 different obstacles to get across, although the benefit of participating in the non-competitive section was that it didn't matter if we chose not to do some. I generally did one section of an obstacle and then skipped the two repeats that followed. I was surprised to find that it wasn't as strenuous of exercise as I had anticipated (perhaps because I walked around too much of it), but I definitely came home covered in mud and with bruises just about everywhere.

Photo op in the middle of the race...Why not? We're not really competing.

We had a group of about 20 teachers and spouses that joined up to do the race together. As if having that many foreigners in one group wasn't enough to attract a lot of attention we also decided to try to win the costume contest (a successful endeavor) - which resulted in us wearing tiger hats, pinning tails to our back and painting some stripes onto our faces. In a way I liked that better...at least we earned the attention we got instead of it just coming our way for existing. It was definitely a lot of fun to go through the race with so many other people, and to be able to identify our group so handily from across the course: "Go tigers!" Good dirty fun for sure.

Nice and clean before the race

After the muddy run

I even ended up on the banner of their face book page! I must admit, the hats have definitely made it easier to find pictures that involve our group!