Q: How much fun is it to run around Fenway?Ī: It’s cool. You run a 5K and do 20 different obstacles in Fenway Park.
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They try to say it’s a 5K, 10K or 15K, but they’re not real accurate with that… One of their series is the Stadium Series, where you get to run at different stadiums and one of the originals and one of the last ones they do every year is at Fenway. The sprint is their shortest, the super is longer and their beast is usually 13 or 14 miles. Spartan have a variety of race series, they have a sprint, super and a beast. I was at Fenway (Park in Boston) for the Spartan Sprint in November. You don’t get a lot of downtime to let your body recover. I usually try to take an extended offseason, because in the spring, summer and fall, races can be multiple times a month. A lot of races become few and far between in January and February time frame, and early March, just because they don’t want to do it in the snow. Q: What was the last event you participated in?Ī: My last event would have been in November.
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But it was a mental process of like ‘I’ve got to do five miles today? How am I going to do that? That’s going to take forever.’ I don’t even consider that a full workout anymore. What I liked to say was ‘If you’ve got 20 obstacles in five miles, at every half-mile, you’re stopping to do something.’ Now I just enjoy running.
I was a collegiate football player, so the explosive parts of that training was in line with what I liked. Q: Was doing Spartan races a way to ease into running?Ī: Absolutely. But it took me that year to get used to it. I run 40-plus miles a week most weeks now. Now, I ran 30 miles a couple of weeks ago in one day. So that was like ‘Well I won’t fail at obstacles because I can climb (the monkey bars) and they’re fun, but I am not fast anymore.’ I took a while to become a runner, but I wasn’t a runner in the past. But in reality, 98 percent of the race is running. Obstacle course racing sounds fun, you get to carry around buckets of gravel, swing on a rig, do monkey bars and climb a rope. I tried it in 2014 and realized I liked it, and that I was not very good at it. Q: How long have you been doing Spartan races?Ī: My first race was 2014. Related Click here to read all our stories in the Everyday Athletes series
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