As I continue to do more obstacle course races, it’s very humbling to get to see them evolve, sometimes for the best and sometimes for the worst. While I can say the Central Texas Tough Mudder was one I thought improved and was better than it was the year before - I can honestly say I was shocked to see the Dallas course take the opposite effect from last year.
Forget the shoe-swallowing mud of Spartan Race Seattle’s past. This Seattle Beast and Sprint events were held once again on the beautiful terrain of Snohomish, Washington, under beautiful skies, a slight smell of smoke in the air and completely dry terrain. Perfect race conditions are a rarity in the Pacific Northwest, but the Meadow Wood Equestrian Center was pretty close!
The running joke in Georgia is that if Savage Race is coming to town, it's going to be a cold & wet weekend. Their race this fall proved to be the exception to the rule as it was a beautiful weekend for a race that bills itself as "The Best Obstacles. The perfect distance". The following is our quick overview and recap of the race.
It has honestly taken me a while to process everything emotionally and physically that I went through during the Sun Peaks Spartan Race Beast. I have never had a race break me like that (not even a marathon). To put it lightly, the Beast was the hardest race that I ever conquered and the last piece of my Trifecta puzzle
Conquer The Gauntlet is one of the nation’s oldest multi-state OCR series. The race company, founded by the Mainprizes (David, Steve and his wife Courtney), have a huge fan following in the Midwest. Since 2012, they have expanded every year adding more venues in more locations.
Spartan Race returned again this year to a very familiar venue, Killington Resort, nestled high in the mountains of Vermont. What was once home to the Spartan World Championship race is now a more obtainable opportunity for many OCR athletes in the Northeast to complete their coveted Spartan trifecta. The course in years past was 16+ miles with many thousands of feet elevation gain.
This past weekend I traveled up to beautiful Seattle, WA to participate in my first ever Tough Mudder event. My grandparents even flew out from Michigan to cheer me on throughout the course! With this being my first Tough Mudder event I wasn’t too sure what to expect.
Green, orange, and blue may not be the new red, white, and blue. But these are definitely the colors of a unique obstacle challenge in South Jersey. Mix in a little yellow and you’ve got the all-American Goliathon.
Maryland International Speedway hosted a Spartan Race Sprint race this past Saturday and Sunday. The combined totals for the weekend were about 7,500 participants. The weather was certainly not a problem, as plenty of sunshine and cooler temperatures made for a very pleasant weekend.
In the first weekend of September, the best Obstacle Course Racing (OCR) athletes gathered from across America to a small town outside of San Antonio, Texas. I knew this was a no miss event so took the trip out to run in the 15k. If you didn’t make it to the first ever US OCR Championship, here is what you missed.
