A Spartan Race is a series of obstacle races of varying distance and difficulty ranging from 3 miles to marathon distances. I am going to be running the Stadium Spartan at Citifield on April 21. It consists of a 5K race with about 15 obstacles. Two of my cousins who have run Spartans before asked if I would like to join them. I am assuming they asked me because I am so buff and tough (lol)! Their team for this event consists of ten members. There is one other woman on the team (a friend of mine). I am the eldest in the group by 5 years.
Some of the obstacles in the past included monkey bars; a spear throw; skips with a massive, heavy, rope; box jumps; a sandbag carry; a rope climb; a traverse wall and a wall climb. Every time you can't complete a task you need to do burpees. I think I might have to do tons of burpees! There are also many, many stadium stairs to climb! Can you believe I willfully signed up for this?!?
During the next few months I am going to keep you updated on my training plan for this event. Who wouldn't want to follow along with my progress?!? For example, yesterday, in addition to running 3 miles on the treadmill I also did the exercises found on the poster below. I know that on the bottom of the poster it indicates that "level 1" should repeat everything 3 times but to be honest I only did everything once. I did have to go to work afterwards and I didn't want to be totally spent!
