
Review-Salt Lake City Spartan Super
Deciding to complete the Salt Lake Spartan Super race was where it all started for me. It was in my home state of Utah, easy to get to, and the date was open. When I first decided to race, I wanted to set a goal that would push me hard for the six months I had to train. I looked through the results of several of the 2014 Spartan Super races and did some research on-line, and figured that about 50% of the competitors finished in under 2 hours and 30 mintues and that about 15%

Review-Boise Spartan Sprint, June 13, 2015
I signed up for the Boise Spartan Sprint to be a "warm-up" and learning experience for when I ran the SLC Spartan Super on June 27, 2016, and so that I could get a feel for the obstacles and where my weak points were. My brother-in-law Paul Fuller, was doing the race with me (he had already done a few, and so I trusted him to get me where I needed to go). Once I got out on the course, any thoughts of taking it easy and using it as a warm up completely disappeared and I went a


The Muddy Udder-Gunnison, Utah 6-6-2015
In December, 2014, I decided that I was going to run the June 27, 2015 Salt Lake City Spartan Super race. That led to several months of hard training, and along the way I began looking for a few events that I could use to train and get a feel for the real thing. Through some friends on facebook, I came across the first ever "Muddy Udder" race in my hometown of Gunnison, Utah, to be held on June 6, 2015. Gunnison is small town life at its best (and sometimes quirkiest), so I h