I recently received my Mad About Plaid" Women's Active Skirt / Kilt from JWalking Designs in the mail and was eager to try it out. That night I headed to the track, to join our weekly run club, and wore my new blue plaid kilt. It was lightweight, comfortable and incredibly cool against my legs.
There is a new way to exercise and condition your body in the great outdoors which has been gaining popularity over the last couple of years. You may be a veteran of it, or completely unfamiliar with the term, depending on the circles in which you play. It's called rucking, a term that derives from the military slang for a rucksack (aka backpack). To ruck is also a verb meaning to move with a rucksack (usually with a significant amount of gear), and implies action, energy, and purpose.
Canada's Toughest (and nicest) Couple - Claude Godbout (2x Spartan World Champion) and her Olympic teammate/boyfriend/OCR World Championships teammate (also a Spartan champ) Marco Bedard bring us inside their lives, training, and more!
Getting loads of swag from races seems like a good thing at first. As your obstacle course racing (OCR) addiction grows though, it can present problems. If you missed the last article on what to do with your race shirts, make sure you check it out here. Now is time to decide what to do with all your race bibs. Luckily, I have six strong suggestions for you.
Mud Run Guide partners with For Those Who Would and OCR World Championships to award the first For Those Who Would OCR Humanitarian Award. For Those Who Would, a Richmond, Kentucky based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity rooted in the obstacle racing community launched this week as an organization supporting individuals unable to participate in athletic and physical recreational activities due to debilitating injuries or chronic diseases.
On this episode of Obstacle and Adventure Weekly, we get inside the head of Joe De Sena, the CEO of Spartan Race at his home in Pittsfield VT on the eve of the 2014 Spartan Race World Championship. Then, we meet up with the winner of that race, along with the 2014 OCR World Championships, Jon Albon.
So…you have signed up for two races in one weekend. The first thing you should do is admit that you have a problem and are addicted to obstacle course racing (OCR). Now that you have done that, it is time to get ready to perform at your best for the events using these techniques:
The first-ever "Beer OCR Warrior" happened in the middle of the mayhem in SoCal! Cassidy Watton challenged Lauren Ho - and then all hell broke loose, check it out!!
Margaret asks OCR World Championships' Founder, Adrian Bijanada all about the inaugural event at Mud Guts & Glory on October 25 & 26, we go inside the gear shed for some how-to with one of the simplest - and cheapest - training tools yet.
Margaret gets to know a couple of the best and brightest new stars in the sport of OCR on the men's and women's side: Reigning World's Toughest Mudder champion Ryan Atkins and Corinna Coffin. Both athletes were runners-up at Spartan Race World Championship, and they both also won those same divisions at the BattleFrog race [...]
