Michael Winner, center, leads a group of costumed friends into a mud pit during the XCX Extreme Cross Country event at the Midway Sandbar in Columbia, Mo. “Spartans, prepare for mud!” Winner shouted at former classmates from St. Mary’s High School in Independence in the four-mile race that featured other obstacles such as a chainsaw-wielding man posing as a maniac. The overall winner of the race was Cameron Bogue of O’Fallon.
