Spartan Race Sprint : the report of the Mammoth!
 

Hi chicks!

This week, I received a very sweet message from devadiva who was asking me about my last race, as I was stressing about it on pretty much every thread of the Featherweight section. She suggested to post something about on the Exercise section... If this can motivate a few chicks, WHY NOT! ;)

I ran my first Spartan Race Sprint ever last weekend, in Morin Height, Qc (Canada). The Spartan Races are, well... races :P when you have to face a number of obstacles. Usually, the Sprint version (there is also a Super and a Beast) is usually around 15 obstacles and 5 km (3.1 mi), but people who raced it with their GPS watch reported that this one was more of a 6.5 km.
Another challenge was that being held at a Ski Resort, the boyfriend and I were naive and were like ‘’oh, we’ll probably gonna run around the mountain’’. WRONG. We went up and down the mountain about 3 times, offering us a great bonus challenge. We ran on Sunday, but there was races held on the through the rainy previous day, offering us an awesome mud fest the day we went to conquer the mountain. I thought the mud was fun, the boyfriend was sick of it after the first 1 km ;)

To name a few obstacles, there was : crawling under barbedwire, tunnel to crawl into, carrying weight around little path loops, jumping above walls, climbing up a rope, pulling a weight using a rope (that was a freaking heavy weight, I had to do burpees to skip this one :P, jumping above fire (that was FUN!), etc

I highly suggest you to try a Spartan if you want a challenge. People are pumped, and you easily get pumped out yourself: you really do feel like a warrior, crawling under barbed wire and jumping above wall. A race like that would be a good endpoint, or a great motivation factor, for someone who want s to train to become an overall fit person; I run a lot, but I took on weight lifting in the past months to be ready for the race (and there is still some obstacles I was not able to deal with). Honestly, to just be able to finish it was such a cool acknowledgment of all the work done in the past years to a healthiest lifestyle.

Here is a few picture of the race : )

The site :
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That is me with my ARGGGGGGHHHH face
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I'd like you to take a moment an enjoy my muddy back :P
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Dudes welcoming us with giant Qtips to the finish line
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Happy finishers!!
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Congratulations TurboMammoth! I ran the Warrior Dash twice and Run for Your Lives once. I just want to pass along something that helped me when facing some of the obstacles. I wear cheap (under $5) gardening gloves for each race. They breathe but they also help to grip ropes and bars. They also protect you from hand injuries from small rocks when crawling under wires and splinters when climbing walls.

Thanks for the full report and the pictures are great. How empowering to finish something like that! wow!

Originally Posted by ImImportant:
Congratulations TurboMammoth! I ran the Warrior Dash twice and Run for Your Lives once. I just want to pass along something that helped me when facing some of the obstacles. I wear cheap (under $5) gardening gloves for each race. They breathe but they also help to grip ropes and bars. They also protect you from hand injuries from small rocks when crawling under wires and splinters when climbing walls.

The gloves are such a great idea! Two obstacles I fail were about pulling slippery ropes; with my hands that got all scratched from crawling the mud/rocks under the barbedwire, gloves would have probably made a big difference!

Yay Turbo Way to go!! What was the weather like for you? I guarantee you it was more than 3 miles. They rarely go under 4.5 miles so you are f8n awesome lol. I find Spartan races to be the toughest of all - even the sprints are harder than tough mudders.

I wear these gloves fyi for all these obstacle races [10+ so far] they are awesome.

http://www.amazon.com/Mad-Grip-Knuck...s+tough+mudder