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
My hubby and I are trying to raise awareness for son David he has x inaction and a gene mutation called ssr4. We would love to pick for the trip so we can have the opportunity to make people area of what this is and does. We are in the process of resource, but the more people they have the better. We get to do are first race in October, we are also starting a new healthy and fit life.
I want to do a spartan race since I have lost almost 100lbs! This would be a great challenge for me and perfect timing to lift my spirits since I am coming out of a difficult foot operation. I need to prove to myself I can do anything I can put my mind to!
I want to race with my 9-year-old son!
All my training right now is in preparation for competing in a Spartan Race. I have been shedding fat and increasing my strength. Feel that completing it would be an awesome experience. Am hoping to form a team to share in the journey together. Still have a way to go, however I have been consistent and am feeling good. ?Aut cum scuto aut in scuto? (With your shield or on it)
Just completed my first Spartan in PA in July and I am so hooked! I WILL be returning and will CRUSH my previous performance!!! I basically went from couch to Spartan with alot of work to go…. still got a ways to go but I’m a work in progress 🙂
Spartan Races intimidate me. Every time I think about signing up for one I think; who am I kidding I am not that much of a badass, stick to the Color Runs and Foam Fest 5ks Pandora. But after a lifetime of being morbidly obese and limited by the confines of my body I?m really good at underestimating myself. I?ll probably never sign up for one myself out of fear of not being able to do it perfectly or not being able to complete all the obstacles. But I know if Heidi Powell gifted me with a registration; I?d feel obligated to go and to give it 100% of my effort. I never win online contests, in fact I host many of them myself just because I take great satisfaction in paying it forward and rewarding others that ?never win? too, but since you?re doing this one and the prize is announced on my birthday I figured I better enter. What more motivation and inspiration than to have my heroes encourage me to do something outside of Pandora?s usual box?
I would like to run a Spartan race to do has a different challenge. I’m a runner that has cystic fibrosis, I have ran 8 half marathons to date with a pr of 1:37:47 and currently training for number 9. The spartan race would be a different yet fun challenge.
I have spent the last year losing over 65lbs. Running the spartan race would be the icing on the cake of this amazing journey and new fit lifestyle. I would love to have a new incredible goal like the Spartan Race to train for. Plus as a new Mom and wife I COULD USE A CRUISE!!!
my wife and i are already training for such a event and are following the choose more lose more book! we would love a adventure like this!
In less than 2 years I have battled a brain tumor and hearing loss. I am fighting harder than ever before to get my health on track and I started weight training about 6 months ago. This would definitely help me prove what I am made of to myself and my 2 little girls. 🙂