Who’s up for the Spartan challenge?
The Spartan Race – touted as “the world’s best obstacle-course race” – will be held at the Siam Country Club in Chon Buri on September 9, complete with a shorter Spartan Sprint.
Everyone’s welcome to participate regardless of experience level.
The Spartan Sprint is “short” in the sense that it covers a “mere” five kilometres. It’s not easy, though. In that distance you encounter more than 20 obstacles.
Hardly your everyday running race, the Spartan event involves running, climbing, pushing and pulling, and crawling through walls, over hills, around trees and across mud and barbed wire.
It’s challenging but “fun”, the organisers swear.
They refuse to give details on the actual challenges (“What fun would that be?”), but mutter something that sounds like “occasionally Hell on Earth”. The idea is to yank people out of their comfort zone.
Adventure racer Joe DeSena founded Spartan in the mountains of Vermont as “a sport, community, philosophy, training and nutrition programme and frame of mind”.
It has its own media channels including a podcast and books and sells its own workout gear.
To register, go to www.SpartanRace.co.th/en/race/detail/1136/overview.
