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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To face my fears and uncertianties. After many years of ankle surgeries and packing on the pounds from depression, I finally had my ankle fused two years ago. Never would I have imagined that I could jog again. But here I weigh in today 48 pounds lighter (and counting) and jogging intervels. (of course I am doing it in style with a slight limp, but I make that limp look good) This would be a great oppotunity to step up my training and prove to myself that life is about obstacles. Instead of standing behind the barricade waiting for a hand out, work harder to find myself around it and conqure the world.
I want to challenge myself!
When I started my workout journey over a year ago my first race was the color run 5k. At the time that felt like completing a marathon! Then I did a survivor mud run which was more challenging than the first. Now I am ready to give it my all and see what I am made of with the Spartan Race!!
I would love to challenge myself!
Spartan races are awesome. My wife and I have done several including achieving the Trifecta last year. My wife is incredibly sexy and I live that she’ll compete with me (and beat me in races) but she’s been down in the dumps for a while and needs a great pick-me-up like this prize. Don’t let me win for me, but for my lovely wife. Thanks! :-
There is always a reason – for me? To create a lasting, athletic, physical memory for my wife and I. She never believes in herself when she workouts, especially when it comes to running. We’ve had our struggles and our obstacles, including her multiple sclerosis diagnosis almost three years ago. Obstacles are just hurdles and that’s how we’ve treated each one on our journey. I think it’s be a blast to have the opportunity and privilege to help her conquer another hurdle, emotionally and physically, in an awesome place!
I have become quite health aware over the past few years, after watching my mother who after being diagnosed with cancer, overcame the illness by completely transforming her lifestyle. From taking her daily walks to eating the healthiest food possible (she hasn’t touched a fry in years. Or even a potato chip, let alone any sugar) she is now honestly the healthiest person I know. This has really rubbed off on me, intentionally and psychologically, and I have now, particularly in the past 3 months been following her food regime, and have been going to the gym 5 times a week, following a Spartan Beast work out regime. (I signed up for the Spartan Beast, which I then realised it was quite stupid of me, as I haven’t done any other the other ones before!) This would be the perfect opportunity for me to be able to do one of the other races before going onto the Beast and it may just give me the motivation to say ‘hey! why not just give the trifecta a go this year, even if it’s my first year doing the Spartan Race’. I would honestly nominate my mother for this, but it’s just not her thing… crawling in mud and what not… and while I live in the UK she happens to live in a little country, Nepal, where unfortunately Spartan hasn’t quite arrived to yet.
because I’ve never done one before! 🙂
because I’ve never done one before 🙂
I have restarted my weightloss journey so many times during & after my 3 pregnancies and have never followed through with anything. It’s so disappointing! But now I’ve decided that I’m not living like this anymore! I bought Chris’ book “Choose to Lose”, I’m in my 3rd week & have lost 10 pounds toward my 100 pound loss goal! I’m loving eating such yummy & healthy foods without feeling hungry (love the 5 meals a day concept) & I’m also really enjoying feeling stronger & more fit from the daily cardio. My husband is a very fit guy & he works out faithfully for years – I’m so looking forward to sharing in his healthy living & fit lifestyle now that I’m on the path to success! We are not going back to the way we used to eat! Even on Sunday Funday, my splurge was homemade salsa & chips! I think the Spartan race would be an amazing adventure for my husband & I do experience together!