I ran the Cititfield Spartan Sprint, home of the NY Mets, a couple of weeks ago and had an absolute blast.  I took my 10-year-old daughter to keep me company for the trip and I thought it would be a fun mommy-daughter activity to do together.  The stadium races might be one of my favorite type of races.  Since it’s in a stadium the race tends to be shorter but equally as hard as some of the regular Spartan Sprints because of the multiple stair climbs and the proximity of the obstacles; it reminds me a lot of a CrossFit WOD.  You never really get a chance to recover and catch your breath, it’s an all out sprint to the finish line.

I knew this was going to be a battle from the start with some amazing athletes that showed up to compete: Karlee Whipple (Spartan Stadium Pro Team), Cassidy Watton (Atlas Pro Team and stadium badass), KK Stewart (Spartan Pro Team), Elise Fugowski (frequent Spartan Podium finisher and CrossFit athlete) just to name a few. As we started it was a battle, Cassidy taking the early lead but not by more than 10-20 seconds.  As we ran up several flights of stairs, jumped several walls, and conquered the foot wheel, there was a group of us that were all fairly close.  We came to the spear throw and everyone seemed to missed, I knew if I wanted a spot on that podium that I had to hit the spear.  I grabbed the spear, aimed, and nailed it!!  As the other athletes were doing there 30 burpee penalty, I was able to moved on.

Some of the other obstacles were the atlas carry, hurculean hoist, sandbag carry, ball slams, jump rope, wall traverse, monkey bars, box jumps, water jug carry, cargo net, and the rope climb.  Cassidy caught up to me at the hurculean hoist, she’s a beast not even kidding, and then passed me at the ball slams.  I was able to finish in 2nd about 10 seconds behind Cassidy and Karlee Whipple taking 3rd.  I was delighted to get on the podium with the amount of competition that showed up to win.  The coolest part was that my daughter was waiting at the finish line to cheer her momma on, what a great Mother’s Day gift for me!!  After I had some time to recover, Logan and I ran another lap.  This was Logan’s first time doing the “big kid” race and she absolutely killed it.  I was so proud at how well she did, she never needed my help and ran the whole race…Spartan champ in the making!!

Thought I would post a workout that train you for a Spartan stadium race.  Happy Friday and Memorial Day weekend!

20 minute AMRAP
400 meter run
20 walking lunges
15 burpees
10 box jumps or squat jumps