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
I would love to be part of the Spartan Race. My husband and I love taking part in local athletic activities as well. We have fun and enjoying doing them for a good cause.
I already lost more than 60 pounds. I started running last summer and the Spartan Race would be a amazing challenge for me and my new body!
There are days that I feel like no matter what I try I am going to continue to fail. I get so motivated, do well for a bit then just lose my way. I need something to work towards, I need something to accomplish. I would love to be able to win this so that maybe for once I can finish something right. Thank you for your consideration.
In my 5 years or so of being more active, I’ve never done a mud run, obstacle course or theme race. I would love to invite one of my running club friends to this experience. I never have more than an hour or two to meet fitness-minded people, and the idea of going on an entire cruise full of people with similar goals is incredible. And it will motivate me to change up my training, and just maybe I will be one of the top quartile of finishers.
I would love to win becauSe I think it would be a great bonding experience for my fianc? and I. We work very busy schedules and we have a daughter on top of that. It just hard for us to do anything for ourselves. So we definitely could use this, besides we’ve always wanted to participate in a spartan race.
I would love to do the Spartan Race to add it to my wall of obstacle race flyers. Last year I was in a really bad car accident that led me to neck surgery this past December. I have made it my goal after being released from PT a few months ago to get back on the obstacle race train. This would be a perfect motivational goal to help me achieve my fitness goals. Thanks so much for the consideration and the amazing things you and Chris do for our communities.
Marie
This is great new goal to work towards! What the Powells do for others never fails to inspire me. Keep it up!
On September 2, I embark on weightloss with Powell book in hand and a gym membership! I’ve been planning and organizing, had the talk with hubby to get on board, my promises are written on index cards, my goals are charted on my calendar, my buddies have been notified! I want to move! I’ve counted the loss of sitting rather than doing! I’ve tallied the shame of broken promises! I want to do amazing things! I will break out of this old life and find fitness and fun! By march I will be well on my way to weight loss! How I would love to look forward to a cruise along this journey! It would be like being on your show! In any case let us all strive to be the best we can be! Hugs! Cathy
I have competed in 3 Spartan Races and have had so much fun doing them! My girlfriend came to my last one to cheer me on. I entered this contest because she would like to do a race with me and experience the passion I have for these races. And it would be a great bonding experience for us!
I think that I would be the best person to be chosen for this race. My life changed October 2012 because of Extreme Weight Loss show. I decided living on the couch and eating junk all day wasn’t what I wanted for my life. Tired of feeling bad all the time and nothing fitting right and always being sick. So I bought Chris’ at home workout video. And fast forward to today I am a FITNESS JUNKIE! I have been so inspired by you and your husband to want to change my life and I did. I finally feel that I am were I want to be fitness wise now. But why not want to spice things up? What a wonderful thing for my husband and I to do together. I am way more inspired about fitness than he is. But for him to do this with me I believe that he could see what he was capable of and what an awesome way for him and I to bond! You know how crazy having a family can be. So why not do it be doing something we never do???