Sharla Brown didn't know how many people wanted to get dirty this weekend.
The director of Keynote events was shown a mud run and thought maybe people in the city wanted to give it a try. It turns out a lot of people were waiting for the five kilometre, 16 obstacle course to come to town.
The first-year event, which kicks off Saturday morning at This Old Barn in Murillo, has 750 people runnig through the mud throughout the day.
"Getting muddy and having a blast," Brown said Friday as the final preparations were being made on the Dirty Girls Thunder Bay course.
The 150 teams also raised more than $125,000 for the Cancer Society with more expected.
"Who knows where we'll end up; we'll know by the end of the day tomorrow," Brown said.
Designed by local soldiers, the course features everything from scaling walls to greased poles hanging over pits of mud. But Brown said there is a competitive and a just-for-fun category so people shouldn't be too intimidated.
"Worst case scenario you can always go around it," she said.
Not that she expects most of the women, aged 14 to 83, to do that.
"We are country people a lot of us," she said of Thunder Bay. "We love the mud, we love the outdoors that's just the way Thunder Bay is and besides, who doesn't want to be a dirty girl?"
The races start at 10 a.m. Although it's sold out, perhaps some teams might need a last minute member.
"We could get you connected to possibly race tomorrow," Brown said.
