Clemson's Stadium, #1-- paint run!

This is so awesome I just had to share it.  One of the things that first attracted me to Clemson University (besides the beautiful campus, wonderful people, and great academics) was the in your face "I LOVE MY SCHOOL" spirit.  


I love game days because seeing over 80,000 people come together to celebrate a great game and to cheer on one team, is such an awesome experience.  I've always felt that Clemson was superior when it came to crowd noise, and school spirit.  Well, it turns out the Bleacher Report agrees! Check this out:

Power Ranking All 124 College Football Stadiums

Know nationwide as "Death Valley", this venue is the best place in the country to enjoy a college football game. It seats 80,301 and was built in 1942.  The stadium will be filled with orange as the crowed loves to support their Tigers. There are not many fans in the country that are more passionate about their team than this group. When Clemson is playing well and the game is going good, the noise in here is as loud as it gets in college football.

All rights reserved, Bleacher report: found here!

Also, today we ran the Tri-county Young Life paint run, the first 5k as a fundraiser for kids going to camp in our area, ever!  If you're not familiar with Young Life, you should check out their vision and mission, here! Basically, Young Life is made all about and all for the younger generation.  Providing young kids the tools they need to really grow in their faith, meanwhile nurturing this faith and really showing the kids a relationship with Christ.  

The Paint run was my first (running only, no obstacles this time) 5k, and it was a blast! I'm becoming so proud of my new love for running, and I'm officially setting my eyes on the next 10k near me!

Mud Run... YOLO

I feel like I should start off by saying, OUCH. The amount of pain that I am in today is pretty amazing.  Yesterday I participated in the Greenville Mud Run with my boyfriend Alex, and our two friends Katie and Nick. It was indeed the dirtiest thing I've ever done, but also the hardest!

I went into this thinking, "how hard can it be?" and it only took one second into the run, where a nice sweet guy in uniform turned into a big, mean, drilling machine that I realized it was going to be pretty darn hard. 

Although I can't lift my arms above my head, and I've got burning scrapes across both legs and arms, it really was fun! I expected a run with a few obstacles here and there. Yeah, I couldn't have been more wrong.  There were walls we had to climb over (or in my case, step on my teammates to get over), rope walls to climb over, gigantic tires to flip, mud pits to swim through. It was legit if I do say so myself.  We had soldiers yelling at us at every obstacle, with the exception of a few who I'm assuming felt bad for us and added some kind words of encouragement. 

I feel like I could sum it up by saying, if we hadn't had two strong guys on our team we would have been struggling. Although Katie and I held our own for sure!  

Greenville Mud Run: before

Greenville Mud Run: after

I'm hoping that the website will be uploading pictures onto their website, soon! And when they do I'll be sure to post them, because I remember a few being snapped that I'm sure will be hilarious.

Also, I'm pretty proud of us, we finished the course in under an hour, and came in 55 out of 310.  That's not so bad, right? I certainly plan on doing it again, except next time i'm training for real!  I encourage you if you like a challenge to give it a shot! You only live once, and yes, that was a YOLO reference.