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 win!! 6 months ago I was spending 12hrs a day sitting on my couch looking at those events online and dreaming one day it could be me doing a race. I am working so hard at loosing the extra 100 lbs I was caring! My accountability partner and I have worked ourselves up to 3hrs a day 5 days a week. I am loving the new me! A Spartan race would be amazing to add to our fitness goals:)
Heidi, I tried to use the Rafflecopter, but it would not let me comment! I really want to run a Spartan race as a culmination of my efforts to beat alcoholism. I have been sober for over a year and a half now and completely turned my life around both mentally and physically. I am also a teacher now and mentor juvenile boys trying to help them turn their lives around. I would also like to show them that anything is possible if you work hard and give it everything you have! I love what you and Chris do, stand for, and that you genuinely seem to care. Keep up the great work!
I would LOVE to win!! 6 months ago I was spending 12hrs a day sitting on my couch looking at those events online and dreaming one day it could be me to a race. I am working so hard at loosing the extra 100 lbs I was caring! My accountability partner and I have worked ourselves up to 3hrs a day 5 days a week. I am loving the new me! A Spartan race would be amazing to add to our fitness goals:)
I have never ran in any themed race. In fact the last time I ran a race was when I was on my highschool’s track team. I’ve always wanted to enter one of these fun races, but I never seem to get around to it. I figured if I win an entry, I won’t have any excuse to not compete. =)
I’ve never done a race before and would love the challenge to boost my health and weightless journey.
Hey Heidi, thanks for doing this. So I LOVE doing 5ks- 10ks and whatev. I do the Master the Met climb yearly as a shout out to my dad who passed away from lung cancer 2 years ago. I’ve never done a Spartan race, and I would love the challenge. I know that at 5.3 and 270 lbs it’s a hard thing to do, but that’s why I love it. Because if I can do these challenges… even though I typically come in dead last– I’m only in competition with myself.. so when I complete these.. I know I can do anything I set my mind to.
My husband and I have been working out together for the past 7 months, I’ve lost 57lbs and my husband has lost 39lbs (he started a couple of months after me). We’ve done awesome supporting each other. We’ve ran 5K’s together and coming up in a few weeks is our first obstacle course race, Savage.. we are super excited. This has been the most amazing journey in my life thus far, my three children (ages 10, 9 and 6) have ran 5K’s with us recently and my two older boys came in 1st and 2nd place, it’s now a family ordeal, we love it!! Getting in shape has been the best thing in our lives. We would LOVE to do Spartan, it’s tougher than Savage and we are wanting the challenge!!
Love a good reason to get active with my husband!
I want to take part in the Spartan race in Toronto next July, because my transformation started July 19th this year, and one of my goals is to be able to run! I love running, but physically it’s nearly impossible at the moment. What a wonderful way to celebrate my 365 day transformation would that be!
Just got done a 3.5 year medical battle that left me unable to loose weight n in 30 since surgery I have lost about 32 pounds and I think it would be an amazing way to end my battle and start a new healthy life.