My mother and I some six decades back, when all of this was yet to unfold. We're still both waiting for the final outcome.
OK, now I can see it. I thought it was some kind of robot with a long skinny neck and another one standing right behind it, as if there's an army of them marching in unison.
Something really rare on this site, a picture of the member. My two kids Cathy and Russ and I after one of our Spartan events and I even use my real name here! There is nothing profound in what I have to say that would lead me to hide who I am, unless you are counting poor grammar skills as a crime.
Hey, congratulations to all of you! Outstanding family achievement. Having a name like Brown makes it easy to hide in plain sight. My surname is one of the rarer ones in the country with less than 300 people laying claim to it. The devious devise of an online pseudonym makes me feel a little safer.
howdy fellow Spartan! i'll be doing my 4th one in September (solo, unfortunately, since my partners dropped out) (friend's face redacted for her privacy)
I had a friend in the service, however, whose legal name was Little Jack Frost. Good luck finding him online.
Well, I pulled the photo from Wikimedia Commons, and I don't remember what species it shows, so it's entirely possible that it is an army ant—perhaps it's the Siegfried Sassoon of the insect world.
I think I have done 7 or 8 events, I last one I did was the Beast in Vt. A lot of climb up. and down Kilington twice I think it was 15 miles, 32 obstacles and a half mile swim. I have not done any events since Covid hit. I have been training a lot on the bike. I did finish a 220 mile ride in one day 8200 feet of climb, it took me 18 hours to do, my version of the Beast. Do you have someone to train with? It is nice to so the events with someone, but if i had to chose I would pick a training partner first. Good luck in your event, lots of burbees and lots of grip strength will make it easier.
Nah, i dont have a training partner. I havent met anyone in my city to does them (the woman in the picture was my coworker and she invited me to run it with her back home). I've found workout groups and running groups that help me, but nothing Spartan specific. My grip strength sucks. I was never one for monkey bars or rings as a kid, and it shows. But anything with legs, im set (atlas cary, fireman carry, etc.). The walls are my favorite, too. I do the Stadium sprints. I've yet to Trifecta. Havent really done anything other than the sprints
I kind of got carried away in the end, I built 15 obstacles to practice on in my backyard. I started out with a pull up bar installed in the doorway to my living room. I did ten pull ups every time I walked under for any reason. You can hang with one hand, holding your wrist with the other to build up your grip strength. I did burpees when I ran, stopping every half mile to do 20, it was good practice to do them out of breath and tired Link to the story I wrote 4 years ago about my first event for the local paper. https://odessafile.com/people-Spartan.html
My icon is of a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps. The era of history I am interested in is around the time they were a thing. Plus I like their uniforms and how well put together they look.
A friend's pet snake peeking through my hair. (Snake was laying around my shoulders.) Edit: That was my old one. Now it's a lizard on a stone heap (erected as sand lizard habitat) on my parents' property.
It's my Captain Ahab puppet from my stopmotion days. Not exactly Ahab himself, but based loosely on him I suppose, with a scrimshaw head. ^ That's a thumbnail. Click to see full size. Here are a couple of animation tests I did with him: Unfortunately I never did more than those and a few more tests with him.
My new avatar-- a red-winged blackbird, one of those birds that tend to get lost in the background, except if one wanders past where the female is nesting in the weeds and the male is on guard. He's mostly dull black, with a rather grating voice, but he nonetheless has a bright red patch to offset the mundane. Sort of like my writing -- mostly kind of dull and grating, but once in a while a patch of real color shines through.
We see a lot of red-winged blackbirds in this area. My son gets a ton of the yellow-headed varieties out at the ranch. They like to come in and share the chicken scratch.
You have magpies out there? The first time I ever saw them was when I lived out near Nebraska's Chimney Rock.
Yep. Lots of magpies. First one I saw landed on the tree outside my second floor apartment in Laramie. I thought it was some kind of exotic creature that had escaped from someone's home. Turns out it was an exotic creature that lived in the wild. I've written and sold two articles about magpies since then.
We have them too, west Canuck. And lots of fat little quail. You're something of an expert: is it true magpies are evil?
I wouldn't call me an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but thank you. Evil? Morally reprehensible? Of bad character with malevolent intents? Not that I've noticed. I heard one second or third hand report that someone observed a magpie peck out the eyes of a lamb, but I can't substantiate it. UK has a fair number of legends/stories about the malefic personality of magpies, but in Korea, they're regarded as bringing good luck and are the national bird.
