The Hero's Journey to Obstacle Course Racing

Spartan: I was a sick guy and strong. Like really prepared myself in a very military way as well. And it did get me in a good place, but I didn't have like the technical ability or like the specificity in terms of my skills to do as well as I did on that. The last few kilometers, I was literally just like hobbling. At the end of a Spartan race, they have like an arena. So there'd be like a cluster of anywhere from like five to 10 obstacles. And I failed three on the bounce purely because I couldn't load load my foot with the weight that I needed to. So I ended up doing 90 burpees at the