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 want my daughter and I to compete…. We have done 3 mod O courses and find them to be amazing bonding experiences!!! Nothing like mommy & daughter time in the mud running over obstacles!!!
I would love to win a Spartan race because I love would love to take on a new challenge. I have never done one and would love to do one some day! Maybe even get my hubby in on it!
I would like to prove to myself I could do it. My whole life has been filled with “I cants” and I could really use an “I can!”
I would absolutely love to win this. I just had a baby seven months ago and hubby and I could use a wonderful vacation. I just started carb cycling and and excited to see what results come May way over the next year . Thank you for the chance to run in a spartan race!
I would love to receive a Spartan a race ticket to be pushed out I my comfort zone! I’m a busy mom of 3 who has recently lost almost 90lbs. I couldn’t think of a more fun & challenging way to celebrate!
I want to compete to show my boyfriend that the Tough Mudder he ran is not as rough, tough, and crazy as the Spartan Race AND to show him my super competitive side 🙂
I just had a baby in June and I want to show him that his mom is a fighter. I have been training for a few weeks now and it hasn’t been easy to juggle working out and taking care of a newborn, but I want to prove to myself and to everyone that persistence pays off and anything worth having is worth working for. My husband and I have to switch out to take care of the baby so we haven’t been able to workout together. I would love to have him race with me.
I would love to do this with one of my daughters!! We are all into working out and I just think this would be so much fun!!
I just completed my first spartan the VA Super and it was a rush crossing the line with our team. I haven’t had that feeling of espre de core since the service. Completeing my trifecta and training for the Ultra in 2015 are my next goals…
I met my girlfriend on Facebook. We were both a member of a fitness group and kept each other accountable by taking pics, discussing goals, and posting results. She lived in NY and I lived in KY. I decided to fly to NY to meet her for the first time. We hit it off immediately. We are still together today. Our love for fitness has grown since we first met. I’ve completed my second 5k and also decreased my time by 8 minutes, from last year’s time. We have both talked about doing some kind of spartan race or tough mudder. It would be a great accomplishment for us both to be able to do this.