We gave the participants a few days to rest over the weekend and then a few more mainly because I was trashed form the long weekend of racing. As we near the training camp I presented them with the challenge of completing 100 Dips by 11:59 PM CST on 10-31-12 and 50 Pull-Ups in under … Read More
Indiana Spartan Race Founder’s Obstacle Race – The Perfect Holiday Gift
Obstacle Race season is coming to an end for me this weekend. Friday night I will be heading down to the Spartan Race Super Spartan in Marseilles, IL. This is where it all began last year. Sure I started my obstacle racing a few years back with the Men’s Health Urbanathlon and I really got … Read More
Training Camp Token Challenge: Burpees to Pull-Ups Challenge
It’s Thursday and we’re still delivering challenges to the racers who will be competing at the Legend of the Death Race Training Camp Nov 9 and 10th to see if they have what it takes to finish the Death Race. We’ll be putting this group of athletes for a strenuous 20+ hour boot camp that … Read More
Training Camp Token Challenge: Man Makers
Continuing the pre Training Camp social media challenges, we are having the racers do some good ol’ Man Makers for this challenge. Just as I was preparing to write the email out to them about their challenge of doing 15 Man Makers there was a post on one of the Facebook Groups from the Death … Read More
Training Camp Token Challenge: Dive Bomber Push-ups
For Tuesday, October 23rd 2012 the racers have been asked to perform 25 dive bomber push-ups for the pre Training Camps challenges which can help them to earn tokens. Throughout the day they will be uploading videos to YouTube and as they complete them they will earn tokens which will benefit them during the … Read More
Giveaway: Training Camp Entry
One of my favorite people out there in the world of Obstacle Races has decided to make a very generous offer. We mentioned this offer awhile back on the Facebook page, and we said we would wait until we had 500 “likes” to host this giveaway. Well that actually happened some time about a week … Read More
Training Camp: Earning Tokens
This week begins the final planning stages for the Legend of the Death Race Training Camp. With that we have begun the Social Media Challenge portion of the event. Participants have been asked to create videos with specific challenges announced to them each day. They received their first challenge last night via an email that was … Read More
Death Race – Global News 16×9 TV Documentary
While we were out there at the Death Race there was a TV crew from Canada that was following three fellow Death Racers, Johnny Waite, Dan Grodinsky, and Don Schwartz. They just aired the footage during a segment on 16×9, a Canadian news program, showcasing these three incredible athletes and what everyone went through during that … Read More
Review: Inov-8 X-Talon 212 vs Bare Grip 200 Shoe Face-Off
Two pairs of Inov-8’s, both minimalist off-road trail shoes that truly deliver all the grip you need to compete in the obstacle race circuits. Before writing this review I wanted to make sure both pairs of shoes were put through the ultimate tests. Following the Death Race, I discovered that it was time to start … Read More
EPIC Racing Arena – Citizen’s Elect Video Submission
EPIC Racing Arena, has requested that elite racers wanting to get a leg up in being selected to race in the Elite Races submit a video of themselves performing the following challenge: At a Football field perform 15 pull-ups (for men, 5 for women) then run to the opposite end of the field, go around … Read More