For most SoCal Spartans, the Spartan Los Angeles Sprint Weekend at the Castaic Lake Recreation Area signifies the end of a long and grueling OCR season. For some, it's a last chance to earn that Sprint medal needed to complete a trifecta. For others, it's simply a chance to run with friends, take a leisurely [...]
This weekend, I had my world expanded up in the Big Apple. Solace New York hosted an event called Strong New York, created by Kenny Santucci with the purpose of supporting the Alzheimer’s Association and the 400,000+ New Yorkers who suffer from this disease. Now in its third year, Strong New York brought together top [...]
Spartan Race had a very busy weekend with the Championships in Iceland, a race in Los Angeles, and a race in Central Florida. There was a lot going on and a lot of people chasing their final Trifectas of the year. I had the pleasure of running both days in Central Florida and drew a [...]
Spartan Race South Carolina Ultra – Race Recap What is an Ultra? A Spartan Ultra, previously known as “Ultra Beast” is one of Spartan’s longest and most challenging events, consisting of 30+ miles on trail terrain (usually lots of elevation) and 60+ obstacles. As quoted by Spartan, “The Ultra is the first race of its [...]
Obstacle course racing and attending baseball games are two of my favorite things. Unfortunately, in December, there simply aren’t many opportunities to participate in either of these wonderful pastimes. Luckily for me, Spartan held one of its coveted Stadium Sprints at the home of the three-time World Series champion San Francisco Giants on December 1 [...]
It is really tough to follow a Spartan Kids World Championship and the first ever Elite Para Heat, but there was a race day on Sunday with thousands of people taking on the Super course. This was one of the few weekends where Spartan flipped the distances and ran the Sprint on Saturday and the Super on Sunday...
Twice a year F.I.T. Challenge hosts a small race in Rhode Island. November 17th at Diamond Hill State Park I had the pleasure of attending my 1st F.I.T. Challenge race. F.I.T. has won and been a top contender for many Mud Run Guide best of awards the last few years which made me very excited to see what all the talk was about.
This past weekend, my son had a chance to do more than a homemade obstacle course in the living room. He got to be the one that dragged me to a race. Okay, maybe I helped scout out the race. It’s not easy to find a race when you’re only four and don’t have a credit card.
Recently Spartan made history, as Laughlin, Nevada was home to Spartans first adaptive athlete only event and the Spartan Kids World Championship.
I feel like people are now expecting me to do a comparison every year since I started writing this post-race comparison article after 2016’s World’s Toughest Mudder (WTM) (here’s the one from last year comparing all four years of WTM Vegas: Leaving Las Vegas).
