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
Being entered into running a Spartan race would give me motivation. I’ve never done any sort of race (5k, 10k, etc). I need to prove to myself that I could do something more
I am running my 8th and 9th Spartan Race this sept. The free race isn’t for me, I want to gift it to my accountibilibuddy, Megan Ulmer. She motivates me, pushes me, encourages me to be a better athelete, runner and person. She committed to running a Spartan in 2015 and I committed to doing a tri with her in 2015. Would love to surprise her with a free race 🙂
Bring on the Beast! Show me how Spartan is better than the rest.
I love staying active with my hubby. He doesn’t think I can do this. I want to prove us both wrong
I have run a bunch of Spartan Races and other types. I use these as motivation to keep myself in shape even though i sit at a desk 8 hours a day. i have included my daughters in this activity in the hopes it will inspire a lifetime of fitness. I make it a point to try to get someone new to OCR to race everytime i go out. I have already got a group from work to do a rugged maniac and friends in my neighborhood to do local mud runs. i love to spread the word of fitness and activity, and inspire others to keep moving. i would love another chance to do so. thanks!
I am currently serving in the military but I have always struggled with my endurance/running/obstacles ect. Being a female in the military and being overweight has definitely been frowned upon., that i don’t live up to the expectations of the being in the service. Being a female period is hard enough, it’s like i ALWAYS have something to prove. This time I want to prove them wrong!! I have Recently I have taken a stand to improve my run and fitness, and to overall be healthy. currently down 30 lbs in 3 months and feeling amazing. I want to be a POSITIVE role model to the public, to son and to my husband. I don’t want to be that one person who brings down a unit in combat. I want to be that person on the field who people count on. I want to prove to my leadership that I have what it takes and what a better way than to complete this spartan race with my also active duty husband! EMEWL has giving me so much motivation and confidence to continue my journey and make this a lifestyle. I have already made the commitment to run a half marathon and just to keep improving and setting goals for myself
I am currently serving in the military but I have always struggled with my endurance/running/obstacles ect. Being a female in the military and being overweight has definitely been frowned upon., that i don’t live up to the expectations of the being in the service. Being a female period is hard enough, it’s like i ALWAYS have something to prove. This time I want to prove them wrong!! I have Recently I have taken a stand to improve my run and fitness, and to overall be healthy. currently down 30 lbs in 3 months and feeling amazing. I want to be a POSITIVE role model to the public, to son and to my husband. I don’t want to be that one person who brings down a unit in combat. I want to be that person on the field who people count on. I want to prove to my leadership that I have what it takes and what a better way than to complete this spartan race with my also active duty husband! EMEWL has giving me so much motivation and confidence to continue my journey and make this a lifestyle. I have already made the commitment to run a half marathon and just to keep improving and setting goals for myself.
I lost most of the weight I wanted to, adopted a new lifestyle (IT’S NOT A DIET!), now it’s time to step up my game. I really want to compete in a Spartan race, but I doubt I will ever consider myself ready…therefore will most likely never enter myself. IF the entry was made for me however…. Love you guys!?
I would like to run this Spartan race because it would be a goal I could work towards. I am a busy mother of three little kids and what you said in your blog today really resonated with me. It gets too easy to break promises to ourselves. I would love this chance to help kick-start my weight loss and to give me a sense of accomplishment.
I have never done a spartan race and always wish I had. I challenged myself to do a half marathon two years ago and I lost weight but more importantly, I started to feeling amazing about myself and have a more positive outlook on life! It’s crazy how a fit body can do that. I believe training for a Spartan race would not only render the same results, but would be so much fun and memorable to train and compete in!