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
Because, after being diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis, an autoimmune disorder that causes muscles to become “weak”, I have been doing what I once thought was impossible. Im stronger than I used to be and really want to push myself to do more.
I have never done a race like this but I have been wanting to sign up for a mud run or something of the sort! How fun would a spartan race be?!
I am 20 years old and this year I ran my first Spartan Race. It was the Pac West Sprint. It was the most challenging race I have ever done. I made the promise to myself that I will earn the trifecta medal by running a sprint, super, and beast all in the same calandar year! My fianc? and I have been working hard and training so that we can be prepared for all three races in 2015!
I have had enough….enough of the excuses, enough of the planning & thinking about it. Now is time to just DO it!!
I’ve always wanted to do a Spartan Race! What a great way to get motivated to lose the baby weight!!!
Would love to do this with my daughter!
I am a single mother, 40 pounds overweight and ready to TRULY challenge myself! I have run 5k runs/mud oc runs and need this to shake my comfort zone 40 pound blanket. Kids learn by observing mire that hearing. I want them to see what I am capable of
This would be an amazing challenge to complete!
My wife and I began getting healthy and fit about a year ago. For me, it took seeing Chris Powell on Dr Oz talking about the easy ways to do it. Ever since, we have been Powell believers from your messages,your workouts, and you moral examples. In april, we saw Chris speak in persin and got to shake his hand. I began running and kept running. We do the 5k’s, I want to do a half marathon and the. Work up to a marathon. I have hit a slump and need another kick start again and what better way than a spartan race setup by and given away by our inspirations and motivators, the Powells. What better motivation than that. Well, thanks for the concideration either way and keep on inspiring and motivating. I know I need it. Thanks, Paul
A Spartan race would be so outside my comfort zone and something I can’t ever see myself doing on my own. The accountability of winning this would mean I’d have to do it, no excuses! And that’s what I need!