The Lake Las Vegas WTM course is pretty similar to the landscape from a particular movie from my childhood - the desert of Tatooine. It's actually quite remarkable how the "resort section" of Lake Las Vegas has lush green colf courses replete with water fountains, finely manicured lawns wrapping the easments from hotel to hotel. As soon as you reach the cul-de-sac at the top of the hill and enter Tough Mudder land there's a dramatic shift in scenery
Bill Brumbach puts his OCR training to the test recently at the Indianapolis Marathon. He tries to answer the question... Does training exclusively for OCR set you up to run well in a marathon? Read his experience and find out.
Most obstacle course racing (OCR) builds have one simple rule...outside the basic safety rules...and that is 'don't play on the obstacles'. Play, of course, can be defined many ways, but short of going to trial over it, they mean trying them out. Mostly because they may not be finished....which can be very embarrassing if you pull down an incomplete obstacle while you're supposed to be putting up barriers somewhere else.
Personally, I used to spend a lot of my time Indoors...but that was before obstacle course racing (OCR) came into my life. Now I spend an inordinate amount of my time Outdoors. Building courses, volunteering at races and running events. Why? Because OCR events happen Outdoors...of course!
Hey....how hard could it be to put on an Obstacle Course Racing (OCR) event?! Why should those big race promoters make all the money? After all, it's just a bunch of people paying to run through dirt and mud, right? So...if you're ready to take the plunge and cash in on the exploding sport of OCR, here are some tips to make your event one to remember!
If you are just joining us, I wrote an article last week about why I didn’t apply for the Spartan TV show (check it out here). The next day Rose Wetzel and Evan Dollard wrote a response (here). After reading my article again looking through Rose or Evan’s lens, I can easily see how they could interpret some of my statements as offensive.
Yeah, I know we're all just a little nuts right about now, the Spartan Race WC, Warrior Dash WC, and OCR World Championships have already passed, and World's Toughest Mudder is still more than a couple weeks out followed by BattleFrog Series' own WC in December - not to mention Black Friday, winter holidays, and New Year's
World’s Toughest Mudder 2015 is almost upon us. Racers will take to the start line on November 14, 2015 at Lake Las Vegas for the second year. The community is buzzing on all social networks. Before TMHQ lets too many more details slip I felt it was time to get some things many are feeling out in the open.
Two days ago we published the article, Spartan Race OCR Competition TV Show or Just More Human Interest Drama?, written by contributor Evan Perperis. In the article, he noted the reasons he did not apply for the new Spartan Race competition reality show and also his doubts surrounding the focus on the show. The article spurred much discussion among the community. Two voices who have experience with competition reality television asked to voice their opinions regarding the article.
Hard to believe that the sport of obstacle course racing (OCR), as we know it today, is only seven years old in the United States. In the afterglow of the Obstacle Course Racing World Championships (OCRWC) and the upcoming "off-season" for US OCR races, it seems an appropriate time to look at where the sport is right now and what is brewing for 2016...and beyond.
