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
Because it would prove that despite my pending divorce and the loss of my father, I can make my dreams come true. That with perseverance, I will come out the other side a better person.
I’ve worked hard to lose weight and want to celebrate it with an awesome challenge like Spartan Race. Keeping things interesting and setting new challenges is a great way to extend fitness goals so that you don’t give up.
My wife and I want to do one together!
I have been working on my fitness for over a year. I’ve lost 30lbs. A Spartan race is my ultimate goal for next year. I’m currently up to 6.5 miles running and working on getting the rest of the way there. I also started running with my friend. When we started she couldn’t get a mile and now she’s running 5! I would love to take her on this. It would be an amazing experience to have together and something for us to both work toward. =)
My wife did her first spartan this year abd just being a spectator I knew I wanted to do one too. We want to do one together next year but this would be even more amazing!
The last race I ran was the Everest Challenge at Disney. That was several years ago. It rained, they cut the race just as I was about to cross the finish line for the 5K part, and never got to the obstacles or the scavenger hunt. I stopped running completely after that for a really long time. I am back to exercising and getting stronger and fitter, and I would love to say I completed a race.
Would love to do spartan race just to prove to myself how fit I’ve become!
Me and my son did the warrior dash together and it was a wonderful time spent together . I would love to win this so we could do another mud run together 🙂
I’ve worked hard to lose 190lbs and want to continue to find new physical challenges like Spartan Race so I keep my workouts interesting and moving forward.
I was an athlete in since I was born and somewhere after high school I forgot who I was. After having 2 children I medically wasn’t suppose to be able to have I fell deeper into self hate and letting emotional scares run my life. When my daughter was 3 months old I found a CrossFit box and said “why not.” I didn’t realize what a community I was diving head first into but today I am so ever thankful I took that chance. I’ve been able to deal with some demons and heal old wounds. Today I sit at the 1 year anniversary of my CrossFit journey. What better way to start my new/second year by training for Spartan. To me Spartan means warrior, not just the beat the crap out of you type but the over-comer from challenges that should have kept you chained down. I have dealt with and over-come some major feats and Spartan is the best way I can think of to celebrate. No more looking at a challenge and seeing how it can defeat me but looking at it head on and knowing I can defeat it! Spartan 2015!!!