Should a championship race be achievable by 80% of the entrants, or should it be designed to test everyone, even if that means the majority of the entrants fail?

Francesca

A race is a race regardless of how hard it is. The competition is between those vying for the top s...

Why the fuck do you care then? No seriously, why?

I recently ran the Windsor Spartan Beast, my 11th Spartan event, and only 3rd not in the “Elite” wave. The first time I ran open it was because I’d missed my wave by a few minutes at Asburnham (stupid parking). The secon...

The Unknown is advertised as “an unrelenting series of mental and physical challenges [that will] test your willpower more than you had thought possible”. It’s held over 36 hours and up until two weeks before the event participants don’t even know where it’s going to b...

Some of you may have noticed that this blog has been quiet for the last few months, there are two reasons for this. I got a new job which left me with little time for racing or writing, but there was another reason. I lost the love for OCR.

This was the moment I lost fa...

Most of us guys in OCR know our bodies pretty well, we push our limits, train hard, watch our diets and record almost everything we do on garmin/ strava or some other device to track of our progress.

So: we know how we work, what makes us tick and when we are putting t...

I'm sure we've all heard it before, when you tell people you do Obstacle Course Racing and they answer by saying “what, like Tough Mudder?” So what's it all about? Tough Guy or Tough Mudder, what’s the difference?

For me Tough Guy was my first OCR in January 2013. I...

Women's only races are nothing new, and often disputed: many arguing that women only races are sexist and unfair. Personally, I disagree 100% and anything that encourages women to get out there, get moving and get introduced in my beloved sport of OCR is something I am...

If you have ever attended an obstacle race in the UK, read Obstacle Race magazine, or in fact just been on social media then you will have seen (and let's be honest, he's pretty hard to miss), if not heard of Joel Hicks, fundraiser extraordinaire, and founder of the ch...

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Back in 2012 I started seeing a few things online about these different races that people were doing, mainly, the well advertised Tough Mudder. “Obstacle races? Thats sounds fun!” I thought to myself. I had a brief look into it and then gave up when I saw the Toug...

George Before and After at Judgement Day Bordon, courtesy of Tom Barnes

George Trotter, known to me and many others as the Gentleman OCR Racer.

I first met George at the 5KM Urban Attack fun run when we both ran with Always With A Smile. Previously I had spoken to him...