A little About me

I Started my Journey in Obstacle Course Racing in august (2013) last year at the amesbury, ma spartan sprint, my friend told me about it and i ran it with him. My second was the Fenway sprint. i fell in love with everything that there is about ocrs, the running ( i did not start running until i wanted to improve my times on the course) the obstacles, the environment, my team (New England Spahtens) This year i will have done 20 events (a Goruck, 2 road races, and 16 ocrs, and an ultra marathon trail race) I am going to try and do more next year, i have a full blown addiction to outdoor racing and it will be getting progressively difficult with future races and events next year. I have made some awesome friends through, and we encourage each other to keep pushing on to bigger and better. so as time gets closer to next season, i start pondering what i can do, i have quite a tall order for next year and i only have a few things planned, my marathon, my half marathon, a ragnar relay, the endurance society, and a whole lot of race local events, another trifecta, (or 2 if they are close enough) With all of these races, and many more, i hope i do not get in too much trouble for doing all these races next year. and that i can afford them all of course! I also laid out a few running goals in my last post and a few strength goals I will post one with an updated goal list in the future full of all kinds of crazy things,and i hope to achieve them all, and will post progress with them as well! One of my biggest problems is figuring out rest days, and realizing that all is fine, calming the inner demons (training for an ultra bring out a bunch of fears when i have only run 10 miles straight) but with time comes experience, and the knowledge that you can only do what you think is best, and have faith that it will all work out! my biggest fear right now is a dnf for my ultra, but i have faith that i will cros the finish line and do the 32 miles in what i hear that the cut off time is 10 hrs.

Untill next time
Keep training
Stephen

An introduction, and some goals

Hello,

I am bran new to this world of blogging (so bare with me). Last year i discovered a love for ocrs i did 2 spartan races, one in amesbury mass, and the other in fenway. This year i joined a running team and  i am on schedule to run 20 events this year (19 races, mostly ocrs a few 5k road races, an ultra, and a goruck) next year i plan to run more, and to compete at higher levels. A few of my goals are: sub 6 min mile, sub 20 5k, an hour and 10 min 10 mile time. My race goals are an ultra marathon, marathon, half marathon. Plenty of obstacle course races, probably a few 5k road races, some trail races. Handstand push up, behind the back handclap push up, plenty more body weight strength training goals. The point is i am planning on a bunch of stuff next year, and this will be where i document them from now on. I hope to inspire others to do more, and exchange advice on training and gear and food. This is just the beginning of a wonderful ride, i hope to look back and see my growth in the following months.

Thanks for reading
Stephen