Seattle North Spartan Super 10K OCR - May 3, 2025
My first Spartan race!
Open category. Did this for fun and exercise. My goal was to finish under 2 hours, which I did (1:52) so I’m pleased! I believe I could have finished closer to 1:30(!) if it wasn’t for having to wait for other people on almost every obstacle. I picked the last start group @ 11:30AM. Now I know the downside of that. But it was amazing and a super fun experience!
I failed some obstacles because it got too slippery and muddy. Failure meant I had to run penalty loops. I should have attempted them again instead to get some valuable training for if do this again. I underestimated some of the 25+ obstacles and overestimated others.
The “coolest” obstacle was running about 400m in the middle of Skykomish River. The water level reached up above my waist line. The course itself without added obstacles is really tough!
If I can find someone to run with I’ll do this again!
