The course being constructed at Smith Lake this week should be completed by the top finishers in the Men's Elite ranks in about 40 to 45 minutes, with the women's leaders only a few minutes behind. Spartan's website states that 99.9 percent of the people who start a Sprint finish it. There's a penalty of 30 lung-scorching burpees - a jump into the air, followed by a push-up - for each obstacle failed or bypassed. Spartan offers three race levels - Sprint, Super and Beast - that are progressively longer and with more obstacles. I think some of the other brands that're out there are a good entryway to us." "Spartan is known as the brand that you go to when you're really tuned up and ready. Spartan, which puts on events in North America and western Europe, is "focused on the business of getting people off the couch," De Sena said. His original racing company still exists and is meant to appeal to an audience who crave extreme fitness challenges.
In 2010, he pitched the idea of Spartan racing to a group of investors who "could actually turn my passion. He turned into a fitness fanatic and started his first racing series, Expedition BVI. Spartans were the original military force - they were pretty serious about the military."ĭe Sena, who is 46, once owned a Wall Street trading firm, then sold it and turned to fitness when he didn't like the number he saw on his bathroom scales. "It's a chance to give back, and a chance to show civilians what the men and women in our military are doing and have them spend a day together. We wouldn't be where we are today without the military," De Sena said. De Sena got a good look at the area in May, when he did a tandem jump with the famed Golden Knights parachute team and later led a workout of military spouses on post.
It's the latest race in a contract that allows Spartan to hold up to eight events per year over five years at Army installations. More than 6,000 entrants are expected to compete on a course about 41/2 miles in length and with more than two dozen obstacles. On Saturday, Spartan makes its eastern North Carolina debut with a Sprint - the shortest of its three race formats - at Smith Lake Recreation Area on Fort Bragg. Five years ago, Joe De Sena and a group of investors launched Spartan Race, an event that offers a mix of cross country, barbed-wire crawls, rope climbs, spear throws and other challenges to a competitors' fitness.
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