Essay On Spartan Beach

This part of the run is not difficult for me, which is good because my mind is already focused on the cliff that I know is about 100 feet down the ridge and 50 feet on my left (north). Waiting for my turn at the top, I had lots of time to sit and think about what I was about to do, igniting my nerves and adrenaline, making my body feel numb. I ski to my spot above the cliff, and the iconic House Rock looks like it always does, almost like a fifty foot diving board that will shoot you out half-way down the rest of the mountain. I stop right above the point of no return. I must choose to hit the cliff or not. There is no turning back once I move from this spot.

Omg! I am going to have so much fun snowboarding! Today in my life I am at a super cool place. It’s in the UP and it’s called Ski Brule. It has all the snow hills you could possibly think about. I could never stop imagine me going down the hill and be so proud of me. But hopefully I don’t break any bones in my body. Because I still have basketball in the winter. But after I just took a soft energize nap. Then… We arrived. OM to the G! It was exactly what I imagined. The people gliding through the snow with their cool snowboards and their ski’s.

We finally got three practice laps so we could feel what the track was like to ride. Next we immediately started trials meaning we raced to get the best 14 riders to continue to the main event that night. I was in two classes The 250 and the 450 so I had two chances to make the main event. 250 trials was the most difficult because there were 28 riders, and only 14 could go on. Now nobody really tried on trials it was just a chance to be good enough to make it to the next round. I was 7th out of the 28 so I ended up getting 7th gate pick for the main event. The 450 class had its pros and cons. There were usually less riders, but I rode a 250, a bike almost half the size, but racing against harder competition can only make your better. There were only 20 of us in the 450 trials, and I gave to the best of my ability to get the best gate pick I could get and ended up being

I originally wasn’t going to do a Spartan race in Canada this year, but I was hearing mixed reviews from friends and fellow racers and decided I needed to see for myself. I actually was very

The starting line was filled with up to 100 people. Bodies pushing you to get to the front, men who are already somehow sweaty and people who are just excited to be there. My sister helped me get over the first wall and we started. The first hill was horrendous. I relied on my sister to push me up once my legs started failing me. But once we got to the woods part, I was able to go on by myself. Jess and I both decided to walk most of the obstacle course since we weren’t in the greatest shape but we all helped each other get through as many obstacles as we can. There were hurdles, a slanted wall, downhills, a net we had to climb, and more. Once we got to the barbed wire, there was our first water break. The barbed wire was almost a half a mile long and we had to crawl under it on our stomachs or however you wanted to crawl. There was so many people around you doing the same thing and all going at the same pace. We thankfully got water sprayed on us during it so we washed off the mud

The Spartans The "Spartans," who were they, where did they come from and what did they accomplish for Greece and, in time modern society. All these questions I hope to answer in my investigation. I found the Spartan, very interesting when I first encountered them in "The Odyssey" by Homer, where we hear of "Helen of Sparta," the partner of both "Paris of Troy" and his enemy and his city's enemy "Menelaus of Sparta." The entire war in fact broke out because Helen ran away with Paris and the whole of Greece was dragged into what at first was a personal feud. Had this not happened none of the Odyssey would have taken place and the old fable like story, as it seems to have developed, of the giant

Spartan boys started their training around 7 years old, then later around 14 they would

I hope you and everyone at Spartan Eastern Canada are doing awesome, Some of these questions are from Canadian friends that have done a lot of Spartan Canada races. Please also note, some of these questions are based on rumors, speculations, and recent events, so please have them do there best to answer those ones.

The course was just over 10 miles long and the majority of the course was on a nice and flat terrain. The course started out with a with a trail sprint that went just over a mile before coming to the first obstacle on the course, “Mud Mile 2.0”, which I was very critical of at the NY Tough Mudder as it wasn’t difficult at all, but this time “Mud Mile 2.0” was brutal and required team work to get through each pit. I spent more time at this obstacle either being

XMAN has a pre-race like no other obstacle course race I have taken part in; the DJ not only plays a killer play list

At this point, I was still feeling good about making the cut off, I got to this point of the course later than I expected, but I still had over an hour of time to make it less than two miles and figured I would get it done.

We arrived at the place and there were courses, but on those courses there were other people who were really good. It scared me cause I could not do that yet, but I would have nothing to worry about. We were unloaded and set up, Slade got a helmet on and the he had started me. We started off in a curvy circle of dirt and warmed up, then we hit the strait away. After a few laps, more like a lot, we went over and took a break.

The course also included a lot of the other standard Spartan obstacles, like the Inverted Wall, Monkey Bars, Fire Jump (should this be included in the obstacle course totals?), Stairway to Sparta, several high walls, and the always fun O-U-T that was actually Under-Over-Thru on this course.

I was running late (my fault) and arrived at the venue just as the BFX pre-race briefing started so I was happy that I was able to get through registration fast and easy.

I got used to it, or so I thought. I started taking my turns faster and getting in race mode. By this time I had calmed down and relaxed. I got to relaxed and got ahead of my self and BAM! I went down jamming my knee between my bike and the hard packed dirt ground. Adrenaline instantly hit me. I felt dizzy from the adrenaline. I could feel it run through my veins like cold blood. I picked up my bike I finished the practice lap and pulled into the pit. I put my bike on the greasy aluminum stand that I had been using for a year. I sat down to calm my nerves. The adrenaline was still there. I tuned my bike up for the race. I sprayed my chain down with a sticky liquid called chain lube. I took out the wrench and tightened my chain. As soon as I changed out of the sweaty clothes and wash the muddy dirt off of my face, I sat by the fire.