Go big or go home
Madison Dixon, 4 How old is a grown up? 8 Favourite song? A Disney Princess song. I love
Jasmine and Belle. Belle is better. I watched her on my TV and she marries a beast, but he turns into a human. Belle marries the person and they live happy ever after
Favourite colour? Favourite game?
Pink and purple
I have a train game on my tablet. We just need to stop it and go it, when it goes to a person and station it picks up a person
What are you really good at? You know, I have a big shovel and I dig with it. It has a blue shovel thing and it has a long stick like that (uses hands to show). I have a dog at my house. It’s a little dog. I can eat my crust when I have my sandwich, but not every day.
What pet would you have if you could have anything at all? A unicorn. I would ride it on the
ground but some unicorns fly, but I don’t know if mine would.
What are you scared of?
Dragons. I was sleeping in my bed under my blankie and there was a dragon near the window. It was big and red. It was trying to eat my curtain. But I didn’t wake up.
What would you like to be when you grow up?
A princess, then I could ride unicorns IF you’ve ever done the Maas Macquarie Titan Mud Run, you’ll know a lot of earth on Ollie Robbins Oval and in paddocks behind Regand Park needs to be moved to create oversized mud puddles for the enjoyment of entrants.
That dirt and mud-moving is all thanks to the event’s namesake, Maas Group, whose ongoing sponsorship of the mud run since its beginning in 2014 has guaranteed the obstacles are experiences which leave lasting impressions.
Most of the digging work along the 10-kilometre course is done in Mud Mania, located in a paddock behind Regand Park. This year’s obstacles will be different to last year which included trenches you could only cross on your hands and knees in elbow-deep mud, and long, long, muddy slippery slides which funnelled you into mud pools, naturally.
“We use an excavator grader bobcat and we spend a week beforehand doing the excavation and a few days to clean it all up afterwards,” Maas managing director Wes Maas told Dubbo Photo News.
“We don’t actually take any dirt down, we use the dirt that’s there and fill it all back in after the event. On the Ollie Robbins Oval we do a bit of returfing where we’ve made the biggest mess.”
Enter the Mud Run and you’ll discover just how much of an understatement ‘biggest mess’ is.
There are three categories in the mud run. The Titan is for anyone over 14, while Titan Kids is split into two age groups of 5 to 8 years and 9 to 14 years.
The Elite Wave participants are the competitors who most of only see the backs of as they run off ahead, and then again as they lap us!
Yes, Dubbo Photo News is entering a team.
However you choose to participate, as an entrant, a volunteer or a concerned parent wondering if those mud stains will ever wash out, be assured that the Maas Macquarie Titan Mud Run puts its profits back into the local community towards recreational facilities that promote an active