
Top Ten Tips for taking on your first Spartan Race
Marc Trussell is the country’s highest-qualified Spartan Race SGX Coach and the first and only Spartan Delta holder in the UK, one of only 10 in the world. Now specialising in Obstacle Course Race coaching, Marc is also a Personal Trainer qualified in CrossFit and MovNat. He has a background in Double Iron distance Triathlon and 100-mile Ultrarunning. Find out more at www.gomarc.net and www.spartanrace.uk With less than two weeks to go until the launch of the 2018 Spartan Sea


Discussion: difficulty of championship races
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 spots, but let’s be honest, the money is made by the other entrants, be them “elite” or “journeyman” (for want of a better word). I am in between these two, I’ll never win, but I’ll give it my very best shot an


Rebuilding my Spartan body
Say a deed, do a deed…those are the words of the Ghost Squad. Although sometimes it’s just not possible to do that deed and you have to readjust. Somethings that I didn’t achieve in the last few years… 2015: Double Trifecta. I wanted to be the first woman in the UK to get an official double trifecta by doing the trifecta weekend in Marseilles (back in the days when such things weren’t possible n the UK, now we’re spoilt!). I got over to Marseille, and I did the Beast (hardest


Celebrating the UK Mudd Queens
Let’s be honest, how many times have you heard the phrase “women are bitches”? Or that you can’t have a group of women together, that they’ll scratch each others eyes out, and that they in fact, need moderating by men? What would happen if women had a “safe space” online? A group only of women, moderated by women, talking about everything from sport to personal issues, to what they’re eating for their dinner? It’d be a bloodbath right? Women are bitches who can’t be trusted t