2017-08-19 Spartan Sprint event

Went and tried my hand at doing the "Spartan Sprint" this weekend. Shortest of the 3 spartan events, this one was 4.2 mile run with 24 obstacles. My son Matthew said he wanted to do the kids race (1 mile, easier obstacles of course) so we both signed up and did it this weekend.

Here's the course map.

Results:

I placed:

- Men 45-49: 18th of 220 (8th percentile)

- Men overall: 297th of 2,681 (11th percentile)

- Finishers overall: 326 of 4,421 (7th perentile)

Not bad considering no prep.

Mini post-mortem: 

Lessons learned/observations made.

1. Do not squat heavy the day before an event. Duh.

2. Definitely harder than tough mudder. Shorter course (4.2 miles vs 10), but the obstacles were harder for sure. More straight-up WORK.

3. My time wsa 1:22. I bonked *hard* at about 1hr. Definitely should be eating more right before event and during

4. We do a lot of upper-body stuff (pullups, etc), so those obstacles related to that (monkey bars, rope climb) went fine. Ones that were asymetrical (hand-over-hand rings, corkscrew traverse, etc) went poorly. Need to do more asymetrical stuff.

5. Earlier start time would have made more sense. Got caught in traffic, and some obstacles were gunked up w mud, etc.