Tomorrow NBC airs the Spartan Race World Championships at 5:00 pm eastern time. Obstacle enthusiasts and their families will be tuning in to watch the action after all the presents are opened. After the live show tune into Mud Run Guide on Facebook for an exclusive question and answer session starting at 6:00pm eastern time Sunday afternoon.
After the presents are open and you are full of egg nog and Christmas cookies, it's time to tune into television and watch some of your favorite athletes shine. Obstacle racing enthusiasts around America are being given the ultimate Christmas gift with OCR on two major networks! This year both CBS and NBC are airing their World's Toughest Mudder & Spartan Race World Championship broadcasts on Christmas Day.
Yesterday, the International Management Group (IMG) the global sports and event management company announced that Tough Mudder is heading to China in 2017. The first event will take place on May 20 -21, 2017 in Shanghai. See the full article first published in China.org below.
In August of 2016, Conquer the Gauntlet announced via their Facebook page the creation of Conquer Fitness. The facility will be opening in January 2017. Conquer Fitness is owned by the Mainprize Family owners of Conquer The Gauntlet race series. Conquer Fitness will launch their OCR/Ninja/General fitness gym in their hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Yesterday, Sports Business Journal/Sports Business Daily reported that Tough Mudder is looking to expand into gyms in 2017. According to the news source, Will Dean said during a panel discussion a SportsBusiness Journal conference that "Tough Mudder will launch a chain of fitness boutiques in the U.S. in 2017".
They fought through the maze that is Tokyo, took on the brutal practice of the famed Marathon Monks, raced to the top of a skyscraper and endured freezing cold nights on a mountain—all in the name of the first Spartan Race Agoge in Japan. From December 8-11, the Land of the Rising Sun welcomed 26 international Spartans, including members of the Reebok Japan team, to the debut Agoge in Japan on the island of Honshu. (The term Agoge derives from an Ancient Greek series of physical challenges that tested the strength of young Spartan Warriors.)
Coming fresh off his 3rd Place Team podium win, with his partner Josh Fiore, at World’s Toughest Mudder 2016 in Las Vegas I had a chance to speak with my friend Mark Jones about his endurance racing history, highs and lows and his upcoming debut as race director for The Endurance Society – Dark Rainbow Trail Series in Calgary, Alberta in 2017.
Yesterday Variety broke the news that NBCUniversal International Formats has sold “Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge” to Denmark’s Kanal 5 after launching sales at Mipcom. The Danish version of the show will be produced by Nordisk Denmark and will be the first international adaptation of the NBC reality show.
The voting for Mud Run Guide’s 2016 Best of OCR is now open. We received more than a thousand nominations from the OCR Community. The team at Mud Run Guide has compiled the list of who you the OCR Community nominated as the movers, shakers, leaders, and top races in our industry globally.
Yancy Culp, the founder of Yancy Camp announced today the Virtual OCR Games on the Yancy Camp website. The OCR Games gives obstacle racing enthusiasts a way to train together and compete in the offseason. Starting today registration is open for the OCR Games.
