Arcadia Prime

June 10, 2017 Last year I took my daughter to the Insane Inflatable 5k , which was fun, although the distance was a bit long for her. It ...

March 4, 2017 I did the BoldrDash WinterDash in 2016  by myself, and this year I decided to do the family race with my 8-year-old daughte...

September 10, 2016 This was to be the second BoldrDash Kids and Family race that my family did, and it would be held at Rocky Point, Rhod...

July 15, 2017 There was a lot of anticipation for this race. Word of its good reputation had spread from other parts of the country and s...

September 3, 2016 After the debacle that was the Samurai Sprint (not the race's fault, but rather my injuring my shoulders and not f...

May 20, 2017 After the ignominious end to my OCR season last year, I was looking for "easier" events to go to this year. I took...

June 25, 2017 I did my first Tough Mudder (TM) in 2015, and I had a lot of fun. It didn't take me long to sign up to go again for bot...

2015 was the year where I tried Obstacle Course Racing to see if I could actually do it. The answer to that question was a definite yes, a...

April 16, 2016 After my 2015 Obstacle Course Race season, I knew that I had a lot of work to do. I felt that in spite my finishing seve...

April 9, 2016 The Epic Sixth F.I.T. Challenge was my second OCR of 2016. I have to admit I wasn't looking forward to it very much. It...

March 5, 2016 2016 got off to a rocky start OCR-wise.  After proving to myself in 2015 that I could do these races, I was determined to m...

November 14, 2015 The Epic Fifth F.I.T. Challenge is the last OCR I will be doing for 2015.  It was a short race, only 3.68 miles, so I...

September 19, 2015 They say that when you are in the midst of a difficult trial, there is a moment of truth in which you overcome your...

August 29, 2015 Last year at this time, prior to my first OCR, the Boston Spartan Sprint 2014 in Amesbury, I was jittery, excited, and ...

July 25, 2015 With the hoopla leading up to this race, I was a little worried about how it would go (short version: There were questio...

June 20, 2015 In the days before this race I was somewhat apprehensive--although there were to be no hills, it was the first race I wou...

June 7, 2015 After having done the Bone Frog three weeks ago, I was not nervous about the Tough Mudder.  The distance was the same, but...

May 16, 2015 This was my second OCR.  I had originally planned on doing the Killington Spartan Sprint in 2014, but real life got in the...

August 9, 2014 The Boston Spartan Sprint was my first Obstacle Course Race (OCR).  The past few years had been tough on me and my fam...