I am so excited!! A winner has been chosen!! See the rafflecopter below to see if you’re our lucky winner! If you’ve won, we will contact you right away! If you are not the lucky winner, don’t fret – we have a surprise for all of our amazing readers! If you’d like to join in on a Spartan Race in your city, enter the coupon code SPARTANBLOGGER at checkout to receive 10% off the cost of your race! I hope to see lots of muddy race pictures from ALL of you soon!
Trust me, I completely get it… you’ve had a long day, work was draining, you’re exhausted and the last thing you want to do is work out. Some days it?s nearly impossible to muster up the energy to get yourself moving again after spending your entire day running around and answering to everyone else’s needs?even IF you promised yourself you would get that workout in after the kids went to bed.
Unfortunately, with so much busy-ness in our lives, it?s far too easy to break promises and cancel plans with the most important person in the world: Ourselves.
So how do we remedy this and get ourselves on track? With?drumroll?.an accountabilibuddy! ?A what-a-bili-buddy,? you ask?? You heard me right ? an accountabilibuddy?a fun little term the fitness community has used for years. An accountabilibuddy is a buddy that holds you accountable. It?s as simple as that.
When you have someone else counting on you wake up early to work out and be there to push them, you?re MUCH more likely to get the job done?AND to have fun doing it! Let?s face it ? everything is more fun with a friend.
One of Chris? and my absolute favorite ways to get our exercise in and have fun at the same time is by participating in local weekend events. Competitions, 5Ks, 10Ks, and obstacle course races (with every theme and cause imaginable) are popping up all across the nation, making it so easy to find a fun event to participate in with a friend or group of friends! While we love them all, some of our favorites are the Spartan Races. SUCH a blast! Who doesn?t want to channel their inner-beast by jumping over fire, scaling walls, running through mud, crawling under barbed wire ? all while running uphill in some gnarly?terrain? The adrenaline rush is unreal, and the sense of accomplishment after is even better.
Well, get this. Spartan has just announced their very own Spartan Cruise , featuring a Private Island Race! An opportunity for you and your accountabilibuddy to explore the Caribbean AND get your Spartan on. You can even bring the kiddos along!
Best part is next: Spartan is giving away a trip for TWO (cruise + airfare for you and your accountabilibuddy) on their March 2015 Caribbean cruise. Click here for details on how you can win!
In the meantime – while we wait for the cruise to set sail – I?m giving away one free entrance to a Spartan Race near you! Using the Rafflecopter below, leave a comment telling me why you want to compete in a Spartan Race and a lucky winner will be randomly selected and announced Thursday, August 28th.
Xoxo,
Heidi
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524 Responses
Running a spartan race is one of my goals, but I have been struggling with motivation for the past few months. Winning this would help me step-up and accomplish my goals.
I did a Tough Mudder last year and I want to see if I can do this one!
After many years of battling PTSD from my active duty, I’m finally getting a handle on my life (and weight) again. Im ready to take that next step to doing something with other people. I have an amazing supporter that would be right by my side the whole time. I thinkthis would give me the final push I need to get out around people again.
I would love to do this to prove to myself and others that it is possible to stay healthy and fit while being a mother of three under three (currently pregnant with number 3). I did not stay healthy during my first two pregnancies and finally started feeling better about myself and exercising (thanks to a stroller fitness class!) right before finding about I was expecting number three. Now my goal is to continue running and staying active until delivery and then making it a piping to continue exercising as a gift to MYSELF and my family once the new baby arrives. This would be great motivation!
Why do I want to run a Spartan? Because they are the best way to test your body and tell that little voice inside of your head that YES YOU CAN! I love proving that little voice wrong.
I would love to win this because I love these races. I mean who doesn’t love running through the mud!!! I am actually getting ready to run my first Tough Mudder in two weeks and plan on signing up for both Spartan Races that I currently know about here in CO for next year. I have lost almost 70 lbs since November and I have found more than anything that these races are something that I love to do now that I am fit and capable of them. They push me and challenge me to my limits and that is something that I absolutely love. The sense of accomplishment you get when crossing that finish line is such a high and one that I have come to appreciate so much now that I have found the athlete in me. This would be awesome to win!
What about us Canadians? I can’t enter but would love to go. My husband and I have been married for 7 years and haven’t been on a honeymoon and he’s a huge OCR fan and participant
I’ve never competed in a Spartan Race. It would be the prefect race to motivate me post baby.
I completed my first Spartan Sprint, with my good friend by my side, a few weeks ago and what can I say, I’m hooked! What an empowering event and an awesome way to use all that training. It was 4.7 miles of blood, sweat, and smiles! Oh don’t forget the mud and the burpees too.
Would love to do another race soon, my friend and I love to do these events together, but living in different states (WA and AZ) it’s not always easy. We have committed to doing one race here, one race there, and a destination race each year, though financially for both of us it’s not easy. Winning a ticket or two would really help our goals!
Why I need to win?? oh so many reasons!! but my #1 is: I already did the sprint back in June and I was not able to do a few obstacles and I kept telling myself what a failure I was even if I finished it I still didnt have that ‘OH MY I DID IT!” feeling I thought I would have..
Now its time to do another one and prove to myself that I can and I will do it and NO I AM NOT A FAILURE even if I am not able to do all of the obstacles and finish it with the biggest smile on my face!
Maybe I can even run the Spartan with you guys, that would be EPIC! 😉
xoxo
Liba