3 Tips from a prairie boy to help you conquer your next obstacle race no matter where you live by Mikhail Gerylo

Winnipeg is definitely not the ideal place to live and train for obstacle races. The terrain provides no playground for the obstacle racer and throws in extreme temperatures to battle through year round. Think Mars in the winter and the Sahara Desert in the summer. Here is a short list of strategies used by a

10 Canadian OCR athletes you should follow on Instagram by Adam Kwitko

Instagram is a great tool for discovering motivation, workouts, healthy meal prep and other great OCR related photos. This list highlights 10 Canadian OCR athletes from across the country that we think you should follow. These 10 athletes consistently post awesome content and are all followed by the 3-Seconds media team. We think you should
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Ascending/Descending Thick Grip Monkey Bars

I saw this set up for the first time at the end of the notorious 2014 Spartan World Championship. Given it was the end of the race and my grip strength had seen enough, I immediately fell off. The second encounter was the Montana Beast. Hopping on with cold hands at 7:30 in the morning
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A Western Canadian Tops The Canadian Elite Spartan Race Series Point Race For The First Time by Adam Kwitko

2015 marked the first year a Western Canadian man or woman cracked the overall top 6 in the Canada Elite Spartan Race Elite Series Point Race. Allison Tai (Vancouver) won the women’s and overall point race, Claude Godbout (Quebec City) 2nd women and 3rd overall and Faye Stenning (Calgary) finished 3rd woman and 4th overall.
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I swam 250 meters in the ocean today by Allison Tai

Oh yeah… it’s January 1st and I live in Canada. It was cold. But no Lake Tahoe. THAT was cold. The Pacific Ocean in January was the kind of cold that bites at your skin. The lake in the 2015 Tahoe World Championship Spartan Race gnawed on your bones. Take that for perspective. Obstacle course
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Cor.Fit Indoor Obstacle Training Facility Review by Tanner Farenik

Saturday, December 12, 2015 marked the open house for Calgary’s first and only Obstacle Course Gym called Cor.Fit. Naturally I had to stop by in the morning to check out the gym and test out some of the obstacles. As soon as I walked in I was greeted by one of the owners, who I
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2016 OCR World Championship 3km Short Course Details by Adam Kwitko

With obstacle course race series defaulting toward longer distances for their world championship events, the independent OCR World Championships (OCRWC) officially announced the latest addition to it’s 15ish km “standard distance” and relay event: the 3km short course. This will be the shortest World Championship race the sport has seen: 3km – OCRWC World Championship,
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Dead End Race Stadium – Stadium OCR | Walter F Hendrick

I was not actually planning to do this event, but I have to be honest, after 65 OCR’s in 2015 I am burned-out both physically and mentally and I just wanted to have an amazing weekend with both amazing people and amazing obstacles and both Canada and Dead End fit that need very well. I
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Q&A with Adam Felt, Toughest Marketing Director

Although they don’t get much exposure in North America, Toughest, a race series based in Sweden, has been making waves on the other side of the Atlantic. It’s not hard to see why: they are putting on large-scale races, spectacular special events and have come up with exciting solutions to some of the problems most
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Questions et Réponses avec Adam Felt, Directeur du Marketing de Toughest

On ne parle pas trop de cette série en Amérique, mais Toughest, basée en Suède, fait des vagues de l’autre côté de l’Atlantique. Pas difficile de voir pourquoi : ils organisent des courses à grand déploiement, des événements spéciaux spectaculaires, et proposent des solutions innovatrices à certains des problèmes récurrents en course à obstacles (pénalités,