![]() ![]() Unfortunately, I only had two of those-running endurance and friends.īetween the atlas carry, which includes holding a 75-pound ball, and the Hercules hoist (pulling a large weight up with a rope and pulley), you’ll need upper body strength. To succeed, you need to have running endurance, strength, and friends. Since starting the beloved but nigh-impossible obstacle races in 2010, founder Joe De Sena has been pushing people around the world (in 42 countries to be exact) to their limits. At the end of the race, I managed to jump over a fire before crossing the finish line.Īside from the Beast, the series of races, from the Boston-based Spartan, fall into one of three categories: the Sprint (5k with 20 obstacles), the Super (10k with 25 obstacles), and the Ultra (50k with 60 obstacles). ![]() As for those obstacles, we climbed over 10-foot walls, carried 70-pound buckets of rocks, swung from rotating monkey bars, and completed too many burpees to count. We hiked through dense forests, slid down ski trails, ran through mud, swam in a lake, and climbed 1.5 miles straight up the mountain at a 25 percent incline. This entails 13.1 miles ( or 15.11 miles according to my GPS watch), 30 obstacles, and over 5,000 feet of elevation gain. This past September, I competed in Spartan’s Vermont Beast at Killington Mountain. Nevertheless, I flipped over on my back and began swimming toward shore, too stubborn to drop out of the race. ![]() The face of victory I made after leaping over flames at the finish line of the Spartan Beast Race / Photo courtesy of SpartanĪs my numb fingers slipped on the second in a series of swinging ropes I was using to cross a 50 degree lake and I crashed into the depths, I knew I was not prepared for the next 10-plus miles that lay ahead of me. ![]()
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