Spartan Race, Inc.

These small businesses that jump to medium businesses, that jump to large businesses, the uptake to get equipped for all of that is so hard, and they grew so fast.

And I think that's what happened to, like, Spartan Race, and Tough Mudders, and all of those things.

They grew so fast, and then they couldn't...

Like, when I first did a Tough Mudder, everybody got, got timed.

It depends on the events.

I mean, there was providers like Spartan Race, Tough Mudder, and then OCRWC, which is Obstacle Course Racing World Championships.

And then there was a ton of spin-offs and things like that.

OCRWC was probably the most complicated one.

They had the most advanced things.

Tough Mudder was more basic, and then Spartan Race was kind of middle ground.

You know, you could jump over an 8 to 10 foot tall fence.

And you think about it, you know, I'm 6 foot 2.

And you kind of get the feeling that you're there.

So I call these finish line interviews because they originated back in the old Spartan days when I was covering Spartan Race and I would literally just stand on the finish line and get those interviews.

And I'm not necessarily always at the finish line.

Sometimes we're a few feet away.

Mm.

I was convinced for the longest time that, like, IRONMAN Triathlon and, and Spartan Racing and adventure racing, all these adventures that I was off on the globe, around the globe doing, uh, were super important and, and that was where I found my identity.

Mm.

I've seen other people get, get sucked into similar identity pursuit when it comes to health optimization, longevity optimization, et cetera.

Of course, I'm joined by everyone's favorite co-host, Peter Noyes.

Today's guest has run over 30 Spartan races before she ever considered herself a trail runner.

She's a strength and performance coach based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Just this year, she finished the Sedona Canyons 125.

Yeah, we're stoked.

We're excited for this and to see you out at Mammoth 200.

Let's talk about those Spartan races.

I've done...

I've always loved to do the doubles when they're there.

And out of the Tough Mudder and the Spartan Beast obstacles, because of course it was Sprint and everything else, there were out of 21 Tough Mudder obstacles... 14 of those were exactly the same as in Spartan Beast.

And another three of those obstacles were modified.

So, for example, Funky Monkey became Ape Hanger.

I just think, yeah, for a fun activity, it's just too much money.

Megan, I know that you wanted to come down to South West, but when you looked at almost on the day or on the week pricing...

Honestly, I'd probably, you know what, you could have probably gone to Europe and gone to something like Mudmasters or something like that, actually had the trip out and the race to the same cost as what you've had to do with Spartan Beast in Southwest, which I do think is ridiculous.

It's crazy.