Half marathon in the mud - Spartan Beast w pics

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cyclingben
cyclingben Posts: 346 Member
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Thought i would post some pics of the Spartan Beast last weekend in Texas. it was 13.1 miles 26 obstacles and if you fail one of the obstacles you have to do 30 burpees before you can proceed. I end up doing a total of 265 burpees. I cant wait until my next mud run. It was a great experience and a great workout, i was sore for 5 days. Here is some pics and a link to a short video of the run.

http://youtu.be/O5TI1FjkzhE

Start:
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Pre Race:
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Carrying a 5 Gallon Bucket of rocks up a hill:
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4/5/6/7/8 foot walls
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Cold water swim:
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Finish Line:
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As you can see I'm not a small guy 6'2 - 295 Lbs i was down to 272 before i started training for this course 2 months ago.

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  • iluvprettyshoes
    iluvprettyshoes Posts: 605 Member
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    Oh that looks like so much fun! Thank you for sharing, I always wondered what doing one of those would be like!
  • iluvprettyshoes
    iluvprettyshoes Posts: 605 Member
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    And congrats on completing!
  • BrettPGH
    BrettPGH Posts: 4,720 Member
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    You completed a Beast! That's amazing dude. Bad *kitten*.
  • Junken_Diraffe
    Junken_Diraffe Posts: 716 Member
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    Awesome!! Looks like a blast!! Amazing job on both finishing the beast and your weight loss!
  • lilpe5512
    lilpe5512 Posts: 425 Member
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    Congrats on the race! That's a lot of burpees!
  • summertime_girl
    summertime_girl Posts: 3,945 Member
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    I signed up yesterday for the Vermont Beast! Congrats :)
  • Rosplosion
    Rosplosion Posts: 739 Member
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    All I can say is, WOW. You are one determined courageous dude. *tips hat* You look great and congratulations. I'll have to look up what a burpee is but doing that many would kick my a** I'm pretty sure.
  • ElleM0
    ElleM0 Posts: 105 Member
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    WOW @ the burpees but you did AWESOME!! :happy:
    :drinker: Congrats on completing the race. It looked like a blast! :smile:
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
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    congrats dude.
  • cmajeff
    cmajeff Posts: 504 Member
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    I am doing my first Spartan Sprint in April and cannot wait! I will be the other big dude on the course if you are there! Awesome dude and inspiring!!!
  • Junken_Diraffe
    Junken_Diraffe Posts: 716 Member
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    Because I'm weird, this is bugging me, so I gotta ask: you do 30 Burmese every time you cannot do an obstacle. How did you end up doing 265? 8 failed obstacles would put ya at 240, 9 would put ya at 270...

    I'm just curious! Not trying to take away from this awesome achievement at all! :flowerforyou:
  • cyclingben
    cyclingben Posts: 346 Member
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    25 mandatory burpees that everyone has to do on the course plus 240 on top of that. :-)
  • Junken_Diraffe
    Junken_Diraffe Posts: 716 Member
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    Haha! Thank you!! My brain would not let it go!
  • Cherie7575
    Cherie7575 Posts: 233
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    Rockstar! ;)
  • cyclingben
    cyclingben Posts: 346 Member
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    www.Spartanrace.com to look for the 2013 events. They have a 4/8/13 mile races. also there are alot of great support groups on FB you can join. We all put Team TX on our face so we would know who everyone was at the race.
  • cmajeff
    cmajeff Posts: 504 Member
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    Yeah, I joined the group Corn Fed Spartans out of Indiana.
  • jtslim42
    jtslim42 Posts: 240
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    Great job and congrats!
  • mrseelmerfudd
    mrseelmerfudd Posts: 506 Member
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    congrats!! im planning on completing tough mudder in october!! going to kill!!!

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