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The Death Race Profile Series: Amelia Boone

Posted on February 20, 2012 - by: carrie

Posted in Death Race Profile Series

Tagged amelia boone, death race, pittsfield

by Carrie Adams The alarm goes off shortly after 4:00 AM and Amelia Boone, 28 is off to the gym before an undetermined number of hours at the law firm where she works as an attorney in downtown Chicago. “It’s important to make time.” she explains. “And I don’t know when else I will get [...]

Ode to Sparta: Canadian Spartan

Posted on February 17, 2012 - by: admin

Posted in Ode to Sparta

[Editor's note: We regularly get stories from our Spartans all over the world telling about their Spartan stories. Everyone has a reason, an inspiration, and we want to share one Canadian's story.] My Canadian Spartan Race by Joshua Styles It all started in Ottawa, Ontario where I participated in my first SR and it was [...]

Arizona Hurricane Heat: HH-007 A storm in the desert

Posted on February 16, 2012 - by: carrie

Posted in Hurrican Heat

Tagged Arizona, joe desena, rawhide ranch

Originally posted in MA Spahtens: maspahtens.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/hh-007-a-storm-in-the-desert/ 0530, 11 Feb 2012 Rawhide. Chandler Arizona. HH-007 Dispatches from the Storm Front. Arizona, pre-dawn. The darkened desert stretches for miles and seems to absorb the light from my rental cars headlamps. The ever expanding darkness is not a comfort. Coyotes really are howling in the distance, otherwise I [...]

Spartan HQ: Where Love Meets the Outdoors

Posted on February 14, 2012 - by: carrie

Posted in Spartan Spotlight, Spartan Stories

Tagged jay marathon, Mike Morris, shonda morris

by Carrie Adams When Shonda Morris, Spartan Regional Manager, took off from the start line of the Jay 50K trail marathon in Vermont in July of 2008, she didn’t know what awaited her at the finish over eight hours later. The Jay is infamous for river crossings, an ascent of Jay peak, and a healthy [...]

Tales From the Chicked: Cornhuskers meet Rawhide

Posted on February 13, 2012 - by: carrie

Posted in Spartan Chicked

by Carrie Adams As the Spartan Brand Ambassador and a frequent participant in the Spartan events myself, I’ve been lucky enough to travel all over the country and meet amazing Spartans on the course on race day. I’ve met extraordinary people in my travels and made friends everywhere I’ve been. It has made leaving home [...]

GASPARI NUTRITION PRESENTS – SPARTAN WOD SERIES: WOD #5

Posted on February 13, 2012 - by: admin

Posted in Uncategorized

WOD for Tuesday, Feb 14th ~By Hobie Call & James Villepigue CSCS www.ConquerAnyCourse.com The Best Of Both Worlds Mid-distance Workout & Progression A mid-distance workout is designed to link your speed and endurance workouts together. I once trained with only speed and endurance workouts. I figured that if my speed was phenomenal, and I had [...]

Fittest Box Competition

Posted on February 12, 2012 - by: carrie

Posted in Fittest Box

Tagged BodyWrench, Concept 2, crossfit, LifeAsRx

Spartan Race has teamed up with Concept 2, LifeAsRx, BodyWrench and several other innovators in the fitness industry, to bring you the “Fittest Box” competition. We are challenging the fittest, toughest, most gnarly, bad-ass group of maniacs in the country to “think outside of the box” and strut your stuff at a Spartan Race near [...]

GASPARI NUTRITION PRESENTS – SPARTAN WOD SERIES: WOD #4

Posted on February 06, 2012 - by: carrie

Posted in Spartan Sponsors

Tagged hobie call, James Villepigue

WOD for Monday, Jan 30th ~By James Villepigue CSCS & Hobie Call www.ConquerAnyCourse.com THE TITLE – 15 Minute Burst-Bouts Workout OVERALL ACHIEVEMENT: This explosive high-Intensity metabolic resistance training WOD is going to kick your arse into high gear. Just 15 minutes to maximize your time and results! SETS & REPS Max Endurance & Metabolic Overhaul [...]

Message from Joe DeSena: The Hurricane Heat

Posted on February 01, 2012 - by: carrie

Posted in Hurrican Heat, The Founding Few

Tagged hurrican heat, joe desena

What’s in Spartan Race DNA? We are a different kind of competitive event. Why do I say that? The Spartan Race series was born from the Death Race and as such, it is meant to emulate life and help us, “the founders“, find extraordinary people that inspire us as well others. Therefore, our job has [...]

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