Preparing your child for Spartan Race Junior the fun or dreamy way

Spartan Junior is pretty doable but if your child does not want to get dirty or jump into small puddles of mud there is always an alternative.

I present to you Wonderland 3K Junior!

Basically, when you attend a Spartan Race event or Tough Mudder or something of that kind of nature, the first thing you have to do is line up at registration or the entrance.  When you visit Wonderland, an amusement park with roller coasters and water park, you also have to first line up at the entrance.  If you are lucky, there will be maps for you to grab or to look at.

As your child is preparing for an important obstacle race event, your child will have to skip the roller coasters and head immediately to the water park.  As of August 18, 2017, the water park inside of Wonderland opens up one hour after the park gate opens.  This will give your child ample of time to change and stuff.  If you have a fully prepared child, your child will be able to change without heading to the change room and proceed to the lockers.

Once the clock strikes 11 am, your child should already be at the first water park attraction that he/she wants to attempt.  Your child will have to walk around the whole water park, carry floatation devices up the stairs, up elevated pathways, etc as he/she goes through the entire waterpark.  Your child will have to meet you at your specified time for lunch.  After which time, you guys will go and now explore the roller coaster portion of the park.  Quick decisions, whether to line up for a ride or not is up for your entire family to decide or taking detour to grab potential prizes, take photos, buy food, etc. on your way to each roller coaster/attraction.  There are also limited live performances that you might want to catch.

Your child will be exhausted but very happy by the end of the visit.  (Unless your child refused to play all day!)

Sidenote:  This author has not truly played at Wonderland again until August 18, 2017.  Prior to that, the last time she visited Wonderland as a guest for an entire day was probably more than a decade ago.  Obviously, she is not a Junior so she did not get a ride from her parents to the park, instead, she bike rode, she got to Wonderland right when the park opened and she was at Wonderland until 8 or 9 p.m.  For a more detailed description of her trip to/at Wonderland on August 18, 2017, please comment below or contact the author.