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Unleash your inner warrior

| 29 May 2013 | 11:23
    Photo provided by Blumenfeld and Associates Public Relations In the upcoming Reebok Spartan Race at Tuxedo Ridge Ski Center, competitors will four miles over the ski area through mud, crawl under barbed wire, hurl spears, climb walls, cross water and leap over fire.
    Photo provided by Blumenfeld and Associates Public Relations In the upcoming Reebok Spartan Race at Tuxedo Ridge Ski Center, competitors will four miles over the ski area through mud, crawl under barbed wire, hurl spears, climb walls, cross water and leap over fire.
    Photo provided by Blumenfeld and Associates Public Relations Reebok Spartan Race, considered the worldís leading obstacle racing series, is expected to bring thousands of racers to the Tuxedo Ridge Ski Center during the weekends of June 1-2 and 8-9.
    Photo provided by Blumenfeld and Associates Public Relations Reebok Spartan Race, considered the worldís leading obstacle racing series, is expected to bring thousands of racers to the Tuxedo Ridge Ski Center during the weekends of June 1-2 and 8-9.

TUXEDO — The Reebok Spartan Race, voted Outside Magazine’s Best Obstacle Race in 2012, is expected to bring thousands of competitors to the Tuxedo Ridge Ski Center during the weekends of June 1-2 and 8-9.

The athletes will run four miles over the ski area through mud, crawl under barbed wire, hurl spears, climb walls, cross water and leap over fire. The fastest time should be around 40 minutes; the longest will be close to two hours.

Reebok Spartan Race is a timed event series featuring races at four escalating distances in locations worldwide that culminate in a World Championship Finale with cash and prizes for the champions – with a half-million dollars in cash and prizes awarded in 2012.

While featuring competitive elite heats, Reebok Spartan Races are for athletes of all levels and abilities and are geared toward ripping people off their couches and into the outdoors.

Spartan Race has also teamed up with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team In Training (TNT) to raise funds for cancer research. (www.teamintraining.org/tntspartan)

Children can join in the challenge with the Jr. Spartan Adventure Race benefiting Kids Fit Foundation (kidsfitfoundation.org). Spectator access to the event will be free.

Adult heats will start at 7 a.m. and continue in 200-person waves every half hour throughout the day, with individual start times assigned at the event.

Essential information
Go to www.spartanrace.com for more information, a schedule of events or to register for a Reebok Spartan Race.

For videos, visit www.spartanrace.tv.

Spectator tickets are available for $20 online (click the yellow register button above like your registering for the race, and you choose the spectator option), or purchase them onsite for $25 (cash).

As a Spartan Race spectator, you’ll receive $5 Spartan bucks redeemable at the merchandise tent, entry to the festival area, a festival grounds map, access to some of the obstacles on course, the Gladiator pit and finish line.

You can also test your fitness in our festival challenges including the Pull-Up Challenge, Slosh Pipe Challenge, Kaiser Challenge and Traverse Wall Challenge.

Parking: $10 per car. Please feel free to use Reebok’s Facebook wall to set up carpooling.

Interested in free parking and a free race entry? Volunteer.

“You’ll Know at the Finish Line – A Spartan Guide to the Sport of Obstacle Racing,” a new e-book from Spartan Race co-founders Joe De Sena and Andy Weinberg that inspires readers to find and unleash their inner warrior, is available for free on the company’s Web site.