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What the Hell Happened in OCR this Month?!?! November 2025 edition
Hey All! November 2025 was a light news month overall, but we did still have a few topics to chat about. With the Spartan Beast World Championship in Abu Dhabi being the primary piece of News. This post will highlight the topics and break them down a bit, but if you want the full scoop,…
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Runnin’ Through the Castle: The 2025 World’s Toughest Mudder Breakdown
Hey there, mud-loving folks! The 2025 World’s Toughest Mudder, held June 28-29 at Belvoir Castle in Grantham, UK, was a 24-hour obstacle course epic that brought mud and the heat! Over 1,500 solo, team and pit crew participants from 20+ countries tackled a brutal 5-mile loop packed with hills, evolving obstacles, and enough mud to…
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NEWSLETTER #5 OCR Crew: Ask A Pro – Sabrina Buhagiar
Check out our Newsletter #5 – From chatting with Sabrina on Spartan Jacksonville, to Trivia of the Week, to This Week in OCR History, and to Media of the Week. We got you covered. Well, well, well, look who decided to join the party, you bunch of hill-climbing, wall-scaling, rig-flowin’, mud-racing lunatics! Welcome to the…
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NEWSLETTER #2 OCR Crew: Community Spotlight – Kevin “Mudman” LaPlatney
Obstacle Wonderland (OW) is an obstacle course race (OCR) that puts on events at their site in Wallkill, New York. In 2025, Kevin “Mudman” LaPlatney joined the OW team as a co-race director. We chatted with him on his experience in OCR, his role as co-race director and what we can expect at their spring…
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Exploring Age Group Competitiveness in Spartan Racing
Do you run Age Group or competitive heats in obstacle course races? Do you ever look around and stack yourself up against your competitors race day morning? Do you get a little scared thinking that a lot of these other racers might be in your Age Group? We wanted to find some information out. And…
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Countdown to Morzine: Spartan’s Ultra World Championship 2024
Picture this: You’re swimming through high-altitude lakes, scaling up walls next to waterfalls and climbing an A-frame for the most scenic view in France. This. My friends. Is what the Spartan race in Morzine looks like. And I’ve got major FOMO this week. Check out this quick 2min clip from Spartan France 2 years back…
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What the Hell Happened in OCR this Month?!?! June 2024 edition
NEWS: EVENTS So. There were two Spartan National Series races in June. A Super in Mont-Tremblant Canada and a Sprint in Mexico. I’m sure everyone had a blast and all, but there’s actually two other events we’re gonna give a shout-out on. And they’re both in Ohio… weird. Spartan Race Cincinnati. Or as we here…
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A Little Mountain in Cincy Enters the “Hardest Spartan Ultra” Chat
“A little Ski resort? In Ohio? How gnarly can it be?!?!” Well, let me tell you, those Race Directors were hitting the sauce hard when they came up with this Sadistic Masterpiece of a course. They took this unassuming little mountain and turned it into a Torture Chamber on Steroids. Up and down that sucker.…
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100 Days out from the Spartan Killington Ultra Sufferfest
Listen up guys. The Killington Ultra is just 100 days away, and if you’re signed up for this sadistic sufferfest, it’s time to get your shit together. This race is no joke, it’s a real kick to the dick. With over 16,000 feet of elevation gain packed into 32 miles, this course is going to…
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Well Folks, Spartan Race Competition is Bleeding
It’s the end of the 1st quarter of 2024 and we dived into some Spartan Racing event numbers. Specifically looking at the competitive waves. And… it’s looking bad. We’ve seen 8 Spartan Venues come into play this 1st quarter. A year-to-year analysis is difficult on several of these due to a number of issues including:…
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