Spartan Sprint, April 8,9, Concord

Welcome to my neck of the woods. It is technically in Mt. Pleasant, the Porter Farm where the race is held borders my family's dairy farm. I enjoy riding the jeeps and 4wheelers over and watching the events. Looks tough, hats off to ya.
 
Here is the link if anyone is interested. From what I understand, the Sprint race is mostly considered at intro/beginner race. So shouldn't be too overwhelming, I think.

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Time to find some decent trail shoes.
 
Have you ever done one before?

They are fun, hopefully that will be a warm weekend for you.

FYI: you can sign up for whatever time and just go when you want. Nobody has ever checked my start time before.
 
This will be our first race. The boot camp I've been a part of the last few months is going and I decided to go along. The 1115 am spot is sold out so I had to do early afternoon.

I figure I may try and slide in to the morning spot if they let me.
 
Our first Spartan was this race last year. It will be 5.2 miles and 24-28 obstacles and will definitely test your fitness. Last year was brutally cold and the wait for the slip wall almost did us in (it was after the three water obstacles and the wait was over 30 minutes). Should have just done the burpees and moved on.

They will not let you go early but we had some people that had afternoon times jump the wall and run with us.

My daughter and I are doing the Asheville Sprint in July and the Fayetteville Super in September. I needed the extra time to get my cardio right since that was my biggest deficiency last year.
 
I've been doing boot camp and lost over 40 pounds since October and have noticed a considerable increase in cardio, core strength, and upper body strength. I do need to get my cardio better but I am usually pretty good at pacing myself to keep up. Now Bri on the other hand, I am hoping to get her into more unique fitness and mostly plan to help her through the course more than worrying with my own time.

Why is there a wait at an obstacle? Difficult and people trying it multiple times? I guess I need to figure out how to beat it.
 
rockcity said:
Why is there a wait at an obstacle? Difficult and people trying it multiple times? I guess I need to figure out how to beat it.
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Difficulty and placement. It was right after the 100 yd barbed wire crawl and then the water obstacles. Neither is set up to spread the field out (kind of like how Par 3s slow a round of golf down), so there were a lot of people moving on at the same time. Plus, it is a difficult obstacle that will take most a couple attempts to conquer, at a minimum. Last year, there was a cold wind, which slowed people down too. If you are looking to break a certain time, do the burpees instead of the busy obstacles. If you are doing it for the experience (our mode last year), just wait until it is your turn. We will be doing the burpees at the packed obstacles this year.
 
Well @rockcity, how was it? I know Randy Moss ran there this past weekend too (he ran there last year too) but haven't seen or heard much else about the run
 
Me, the wife, @YJJPWrangler and his better half.

It was easier than I was expecting. Only a couple obstacles I couldn't do.

It was fun. So much so I signed up for the Trifecta. Asheville Super in July then the Beast at CAW in November. :)

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Yup it was fun, super muddy for the barb wire crawl. I was bummed about the rope climb and the monkey bars. Muddy hands don't grip to well :lol:. I guess I need to go get signed up for the trifecta as well..
 
YJJPWrangler said:
Yup it was fun, super muddy for the barb wire crawl. I was bummed about the rope climb and the monkey bars. Muddy hands don't grip to well :lol:. I guess I need to go get signed up for the trifecta as well..
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Maybe I'll get through the monkey bars next time instead of falling on my back on the 2nd to last bar. :lol:


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