The Spartan Fort Benning Sprint was only two weeks after the GA Spring Savage Race, so I knew I wasn’t going to see drastic improvement over the flat 5.5 mile course and 23 obstacles. Nevertheless, I was excited to play in the mud again!

The course started off with a few too many bottle neck sections on the trail with the OUT, a 6’ Wall, Over Walls, and then it finally opened up with a very long, but at least on all grass, Barb Wire Crawl. I was keeping my current "slow-and-steady" pace anticipating the miles of mostly running that would appear before a gauntlet of obstacles at the end of the race. I went up and over the Vertical Cargo Net and made my way to the Rope Climb.​

The end of the 2017 OCR season involved a rather large life shift for me, as I moved about 12 hours South from where I had been born and raised. Now residing in the greater Atlanta area, the 2018 season came a bit earlier than I’m used to up North, though I did quite like the milder winter for training. A new location also meant new venues to check out...first up being the Savage Race Georgia Sprint event. I went into the 6 mile, 33 obstacle race knowing I would be slow and that there wasn’t significant improvement in my upper body strength since last Fall, so I wasn’t expecting to keep my PRO band.