OCRTUBE headed to Pennsylvania over the weekend to capture all the action at SHADEY's Rugged Run. This mud run is unique for several aspects, first, it's put on by Lancaster Bible College as a fundraiser for both their athletic department and Penn State Hershey Children's Miracle Network.
InsideTracker announced on Friday they will be a sponsor for the US Spartan Race Season. InsideTracker is a personalized health analytics company whose mission is to empower people to improve their health and performance through science, quantification, and personalization. The company, founded by scientists from MIT, Tufts, and Harvard, offers a platform to analyze key biomarkers related to health and performance and delivers actionable guidance tailored to each individual.
Five years ago Spartan Race became Reebok Spartan Race as the two companies entered into multi-year title sponsorship deal. At the time, the announcement was a major turning point for the entire obstacle racing industry, having a company rebrand with a major sponsor.
Yokohama Tires become the official tire of Spartan Race for the 2017 season. Yesterday, the company announced it would be sponsoring three athletes for the season, continuing the commitment that Yokohama has with the obstacle racing industry.
Obstacle Course Racing is a sport built upon extremes. Athletes are always looking to make things harder running up mountains with more challenging obstacles for longer distances. From this, the niche market of Ultra-OCR has risen focusing on multi-lapping events that typically are available in two formats, the 8-hour events, and the 24-hour events.
Recently, the European Obstacle Sports Federation was formed in Sardinia bringing together many of the National Governing Bodies in Europe to create a unified vision of OCR for Europe. The EOSF has taken it one step further with the election of their board of directors and committees within the organization. This continental Governing Body represents many factions within Europe.
It is no secret obstacle course racing has blasted onto the international sporting scene in the last decade. The most recent push has been to legitimize obstacle course racing into an Olympic sport. While opinions vary, OCR is headed there. Over the last couple of months, an "arms race" for OCR seems to be brewing.
American Ninja Warrior returns to NBC on June 12. Recently both the show and network released a new promo for the season. From the looks of the quick promo, it looks to be another epic season of the show. Some of American Ninja Warrior favorite athletes are profiled. New obstacles, new challenges, and fan favorites make this a must see event on June 12 right before the premiere of season two of Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge.
For years now I’ve been trying to find ways to push my limits in search of that DNF (Did Not Finish). I realize that may seem like a strange goal to many people. But ever since I started Obstacle Course Racing (OCR) over six years ago, I keep doing things that would not have seemed possible…only because I tried. Each step has been to a new plateau for me something just out of reach, but ‘possible.'
The urban obstacle course advertised as the Ultimate Urban Obstacle Challenge took place right in the heart of downtown Toronto over two days this past weekend, Friday and Saturday. On Friday the first wave went out at 5:00 pm with all heats taking place in 5-minute intervals until 6:30 pm, these were all open waves with the Elite Waves and OCRWC qualifiers taking place on Saturday morning starting at 8:30am-9:30 am with all heats taking place in 5-minute intervals as well.
