Getting Dirty
WEB-EXCLUSIVE: Silverado's Irvine Lake Mud Run is good dirty fun. Don't miss our video from the event!
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Let’s face it – we all love a good, old-fashioned race. But on July 17, the competition came with a slight twist: mud.
The 3.8-mile Irvine Lake Mud Run was held at Oak Canyon Park in Silverado. Whether racing individually or in a four-person team, participants were covered in mud. Knowing the doomed fate of their clothing, many runners dressed simply; however, some spiced things up by dressing up in everything from valiant Medieval knights to life-sized troll dolls to various comic book superheroes. But with the run featuring multiple mud pits and obstacles, including cargo nets, dirt mounds, hills, ramps, and jump walls, all contestants finished the race covered in the color brown from head to toe.
The first heat of morning individual mud runners started at 8 a.m., four-person competitive team heats started at 9:30 a.m. and at 10 a.m., open-sized team heats began. The afternoon half of the event began at 1:30 pm. with the afternoon individual heats, continuing with the four-person competitive teams at 2:30 p.m. and finally the open-sized teams from 3-5 p.m. Kids partook in the fun by jumping and playing in mud with the Mud Puddles Fun Run.
Bustling with activity, the venue stayed lively and full all day, with people from all over Southern California coming in and out. Before, during and after the races, everyone had plenty of activities to enjoy, including rinsing off at the showers, quenching their thirst at the event's beer garden, satisfying their appetites at the food booths, visiting the Action Sports and Eco Fair booths, and listening and dancing to live music by '80s new wave tribute band Flashback Heart Attack.
Proceeds from the run benefitted the Gavin R. Stevens Foundation to raise awareness and further funding in the fight against Leber’s congenital amaurosis disease.
If you missed your chance to get dirty this time around, the next Irvine Lake Mud Run is set for September 10. Sign up for a chance to race against reality television stars from shows like “Survivor,” “Big Brother” and “Amazing Race.” Profits will go toward Stand Up 2 Cancer, an organization dedicated to finding the cure to cancer. For more information, visit realitymudrun.com.
