Tag: racing

All the articles with the tag "racing".

• One Year Later: Spartan Race Championships

  25 Sep, 2013

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  If there is one thing I learned from the Reebok Spartan Race World Championships this past weekend, it’s that you can EASILY get rope burn through c

• The Push for Legitimacy

  6 Sep, 2013

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  At my grandma’s 90th birthday party following the Pacific Northwest Spartan Sprint, I found myself in a conversation with a family friend, who I had

• Death Race Truths*

  1 Jul, 2013

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  *for me. (like I would proclaim universal truths. pshaw) (1) The Death Race isn’t fair Andy and Joe should really keep a running tally of the number of times racers complain “but this isn’t FAIR.”…

• 2013 Summer Death Race By the Numbers

  26 Jun, 2013

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  Participants registered: 390 Participants that started the race: 206 Finishers: 41 Finishers that received all 8 chips as of 6am Monday morning (“fi

• World’s Toughest Mudder 2013: and it won’t change a thing?

  4 Jun, 2013

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  World’s Toughest Mudder registration went live two weeks ago, and judging from the Facebook and social media reaction, you would have thought TMHQ h

• The Trouble with Chicking

  2 May, 2013

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  As I passed a group of guys at the sandbag carry during the Indiana Spartan Sprint this past weekend, I heard “Are you kidding? She’s passing us. A

• The First DNF

  4 Feb, 2013

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  Two years ago, the letters “DNF” meant nothing to me. Nor did the letters “DNS.” Despite running some road races, I’d never really heard the terms thrown around. I’d never known the stigma attached…

• Coming Back as a Veteran

  29 Jan, 2013

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  The racing season hasn’t exactly started off with a bang. After missing the Spartan SoCal due to weather and air traffic control (thanks Philly!), I

• A Racing Year in Review: The Tippity Top

  20 Dec, 2012

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  So the world didn’t end today, though judging by the looks of the weather outside here in Chicago, it may still choose to do so. I guess that means

• WTM Commandments Revisited: One Year Later

  20 Nov, 2012

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  You all can blame WTM 2011 for me entering into the blogosphere. It’s because of that race that you feel obliged to read my unimportant and trivial

• Day After World’s Toughest Mudder Hangover

  18 Nov, 2012

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  No, not like booze hangover. I wish. Back to work, back to the grind, and thanking the higher powers I’m a desk jockey. Sitting is the only thing th

• How World’s Toughest Mudder Ruined My Life

  19 Oct, 2012

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  The second ever World’s Toughest Mudder is rapidly approaching on November 17th. It’s not technically a perfect one-year anniversary, since TMHQ moved the race up a month this year, but on that day,…

• Spartan Ultrabeast: The Happiest Place on Earth

  27 Sep, 2012

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  The winners have been declared, the legs have become mobil-ish again, and the bruises and scrapes have begun to heal. And all I can think is “Woo, l

• UltraBeast Eve Eve Non-Sequiturs

  19 Sep, 2012

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  As I sit in an Epsom salt bath, the random musings of a brain on overdrive: Grape Pedialyte is the bomb. Ironic that this is my first “real” Spartan

• DR Recovery: At Sea

  2 Jul, 2012

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  A funny thing happened over the past few weeks. I’ve had post after post started concerning the Death Race, yet I couldn’t finish any of them. There

• DR 2012: Cheaters (and Brats) Never Prosper

  20 Jun, 2012

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  As we began the 6hr drive back to Philly from Vermont, I broke out my legal pad and a pen and began to list all the tasks we completed in the 2012 D

• Death Race by the Numbers

  19 Jun, 2012

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  Total time to finish: 60 hours, 23 minutes Place: 2nd female Total approximate distance covered: 50-70 miles (depending on who you talk to) Clif bar

• The Betrayal Has Begun

  10 Jun, 2012

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  When I signed up for the Death Race back in December, I remember talking to a previous Death Race finisher and asking about the race. “What is it?”

• Used and Abused: The Essentials

  15 Apr, 2012

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  My body hates me. There isn’t a day where I’m not nursing some type of sore muscle, blister, injury, or rash of some sort (yum). If you know me, you

• Winter Death Race: FAQ’s

  6 Mar, 2012

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  Post-Winter Death Race, I’ve received tons of questions about the race, my experience, and life in general. I do not claim any special DR knowledge–