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what a change! well done on your distance/time PBs x

Woohooo!! go Silo! impressive stuff

I loved this! That's a mighty scary hill, well done for the complete life overhaul you went through btw, I had the same 'you get your mother's non-athletic genes' talk from my parents so I know what you mean there x

Wow, well done!

I've never done a stadium run but I'm sure they'll still make it fun despite the lack of mud! Ummm, I don't have any big suggestions on training since I had trouble with a few obsacles so maybe I'm not the best example! A lot of it ended up being mind over matter. I think if I was doing many of those obstacles in a 'training' environment with no pressure I wouldn't have done as well - but it was just a case of telling myself to go on. I suppose the one thing I would recommend is to work on things which require grip; the pushing, pulling, lifting etc you can get help with on the day if you need it but if you can't grab on to stuff HARD then no one can help you. Also, a related one is getting some tough skin/callouses on your hands. I saw a lot of people with gloves which were pretty much useless after they got wet/muddy. Once they took the gloves off they sometimes found it difficult to perform tasks without them since their skin was so sensitive. Tateman, let me know how the San Francisco one goes - good luck! You would totally be my hero if you did a trifecta next year, that's much too much for me!

Thanks guys! and yes, disil, it was icing on the cake I had to burpee my way through 3 obstacles. Two were rope-based so I feel your pain Lizzig, but one of them was the spear throw which we only got one chance for... not sure that was fair Ummm, Tateman... I don't know... as soon as I finished I thought 'never again!'. But I think now that if it was under different circumstances (not as ridiculously hilly) I might be tempted. what about you? I met people last weekend that did the Berlin and Munich one and they said the hills/mud/slipping situation made a really big difference. Maybe next year in one of the stadium ones... does that make me a pansy? haha I LOVED the team atmosphere, because I was there on my own loads of people took me under their wing and would shout random encouragements at me and give me a helping hand - if I did a race again it would be for that feeling. I can definitely recommend it for anyone sitting on the fence

Did my first Spartan race this weekend - wooo!!! It was so challenging, there was a lot of 50% gradient hills and it was much muddier than the event planners wanted it to be. I had every excuse not to do it (cold weather, 3hr drive there and back, nobody doing the race with me etc) but I did it!!! It felt amazing and I think it's obvious how much I enjoyed it from this pic

AWESOME!!! must feel great to reach your goal like that

Wow! that's so impressive, well done! The numbers are great but I love that your whole lifestyle and outlook on life has changed.

Awesome! good job!

Berserker Mode Story - signed up for a Spartan race at the end of June. I've never been a big runner anyway and have never even done a normal race, nevermind an obstacle race! Also, am going totally on my own since none of my friends want to, should be interesting!

Mad Hatter, that's awesome! am training to do my first one and while I can see sooooooooome progress, it's so slow....!

That's fab! (on both the 10lbs and the 115 deadlift ) xx

Well done-that's amazing! and it must have felt pretty good to just casually do a pull up with co-worker standing there stunned!

Hi Kilian, I live in Luxembourg and am trying to get a team of friends from here to go - maybe see you there!