00:00The ex-Dubai Spartan race came back to Dubai for the second installment of their world-famous endurance race.
00:10The event features two distances called the Spartan Sprint, a 5k power race through brutal desert conditions peppered with 20 obstacles,
00:17and the Spartan Super, a grueling 13k run through the unforgiving sand under the sweltering sun incorporating 25 plus obstacles.
00:25Both races utilize a range of obstacles including the now infamous barbed wire crawls, rope climbs, tire flips, slip walls,
00:35spear throwing, a fire jump right before the end, and many, many more.
00:40Competitors waiting for their heat to begin get into the zone with stretches and muscle loosening exercises and most are confident the race will be fun.
00:47I think it's going to be a lot of fun, I'm just worried about the ropes, but we'll see what we can do.
00:52Just have a good laugh and hopefully not die at the end of it, that's good.
00:55Good fun, most important, and to see how long it takes.
01:02I think it's going to be pretty hard, but I think we're going to have fun with it as well.
01:06After completing all the obstacles and making it to the finish line, competitors are awarded with a medal and gain the prestige of having finished such a demanding race.
01:13Good, good, really hard, hard running in the sand, but overall it's a great race, it's really good, really fun.
01:19It was my first race of this kind, honestly it was a lot more difficult than I thought.
01:24In a lot of places you run on grass and stuff, running on this dirt is honestly at least 30% tougher than running on a flat surface.
01:33It was a good challenge though, really good challenge.
01:36If there was another word to describe how difficult it was, I'll tell you right now, it was crazy.
01:41This one, started cramping out of my mind, like I wanted to stop and just stretch my muscles out for a minute, but I mean we made it man.
01:48We all finished, got our medals, we finished at slightly different times, a couple of minutes apart, but you know, here we are.
01:54In the beginning it's a lot of running to spread out the group a little bit, so it's some easy obstacles,
02:00and then after a while you get a few harder ones that are easy to miss, and then it's just keep coming.
02:08While the heats are competitive, the Spartan Race is for athletes of all ages and abilities,
02:12and aims to inspire people to step away from their TVs and couches and lead a healthier, fitter lifestyle.
02:18Logan Fish, for Golf News.
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