I took on my second race of this season Saturday, the Indian Mud Run up in Coshocton, OH. It’s one of those races that I’ve been meaning to get to for a while and this year took the plunge. It’s also part of the Ohio OCR Grand Slam that I’m…
I held off on putting out a post yesterday because I knew what was coming up last night: Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge. Yeah, that’s right, there’s a new way to get your Spartan Race on and it’s on prime time TV. The show is on NBC, and it appears it’s…
Of all the reasons I have for my love of obstacle course racing, I think the one that really sticks with me the most is its power to change lives. More than any other sport, activity, or what have you, OCR seems to propel people to new things. Naturally, I’m biased,…
Watch out, I’ve been listening to my podcasts again, and Daniel Vitalis came through for me again with a great interview with a lady named Gretchen Rubin. Rubin is a habits expert – she helps people to form good habits and shuck bad ones. And obviously, creating habits is the…
A lot of OCR training comes down to making the most of what you have. We don’t all have the ability to run trails any time we want, or climb walls or ropes, crawl in the mud, etc. as part of our regular training regimens. Those things don’t exist in…
Man, do I hate yardwork. I’m serious. Ask my parents about the amount of griping I did when it was time to mow the lawn or what have you. I still can’t stand it, either. One of the most irritating things for me is to have to mow, or weed,…
As I’ve mentioned a few times, I just ran my first Spartan Race a couple weekends ago and loved it a lot. It was well-run, tough but not impossible, surrounded by great people, and more. Spartan is obviously one of the big three or four races that go on around…
Grip strength. With the influx of TV shows like American Ninja Warrior (which we talked about on an #OCRChat a while back) and more people wanting to try out the great challenges that such shows hold, obstacles with various grip challenges have been popping up at more races for the past…
That’s right, I feel like I’ve claimed more legitimacy in the Obstacle Course Racing world after taking on one of the granddaddies of the sport: The Spartan Race. As I mentioned last week, yesterday I took part my first Spartan Sprint at The Wilds outside of Zanesville, Ohio, and holy hippo spit,…
