The Adventures of Team Daniels: Spartan Finishers!

"Gritty. Resilient. Passionate. Spartans aren’t soft. Spartans overcome obstacles. And yes, Spartans burpee."

Abe and I got gritty, resilitent, and passionate. We signed up for the Spartan Sprint, which is 3+ miles with 20+ obstacles. Our team, Swolemates, consisted of 12 other gym friends.

The girls and I started training 6 weeks out. On the day we took this picture a guy was using the sled with 35 pounds. He asked if we needed him to take some weight off for us after he was finished. We said no and after he left we added almost 100 more pounds. #beastmode

We kinda had ourselves psyched out about the race. This tag was included in the race packet and it kinda summed up how we were feeling before:

But that's why we knew we should do it.

Race day!

carpooling

putting on shoe tag

mwa!

Looking down at the field before race time.

GoPro or go home!

Look! That's us on the jumbo tron!

Here are Abe and I.

It's a little grainy, but here's a close up.

Here's one of 4 or 5 consecutive wall climbs.

They were officially called 'hurdles', but let's not mince words; we climbed those walls, earning every bruise along the way.

I just got over and Hammy is right behind me.

There were many wall climbs throughout the race. The tallest was probably 8 feet.

Bag carry up the stairs.

We ran lots of stairs and up and down ramps, and then most of the stairs in AT&T Stadium. We climbed a cargo net, carried water jugs, scooted on scooters pulling with our hands, did heavy jump ropes, ball slams, spear toss, climbed walls, carried cement blocks, pulled heavy bags with a rope, rock climbed, more wall climbs, box jumps, army climbed stairs under ropes, more walls, more stairs, rope climb, and finished it all off with monkey bars.