Have You Been Initiated into Adulthood?

Feeling good halfway through the race!

Two weekends ago, I completed my latest Mud Ninja race. 슠And though it wasn’t my most successful race as far as obstacle completion and time go, it was a complete success from a level that I didn’t even consider at the time, but was슠a lesson I realized a few days…

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“Why Would You WANT To?

Be Strong To Be Helpful

The first time you tell someone that you’re training for an obstacle course race, you generally get one of two attitudes about it: 슠those who think it’s awesome or even just impressive, and those who don’t get슠the attraction. 슠And that’s fine. 슠Not everyone is into OCR. But there’s an extreme…

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Natural Born Heroes: The Primer on Being Strong to Be Useful

Back before World War I, a French navy officer named Georges H쎩bert was present at the eruption of Mount Pel쎩e on the island of Martinique.  There, he witnessed the disaster and what he considered too much needless death due to the accident.  And it had nothing to do with early-warning…

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