Or check out the Warrior Dash website for additional cities, tickets, and competitor info. Have you subscribed to our Newsletter or Podcast? Kelly Dunning is a freelance writer, travel blogger and digital nomad. She and her partner Lee, a web designer from Northern England, have been working remotely while backpacking around the world with no fixed address since May of Together they created Global-Goose.
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Subscribe for the latest action sports, adventure, crazy carnivals and music festivals, news, travel tips and giveaways! What is Warrior Dash? Proper Training is Important. Any race that has a narrow beginning onto an even narrower trail needs a strategic start. When the announcer signaled the start — by enormous flames shooting from the canopy above us — we took off and ran along a narrow trail maneuvering over mud, logs, roots, rocks, and puddles.
Less than a minute into the race I stepped onto a slippery log, slipped off and nearly face-planted into the mud. Luckily, I recovered and somehow found myself in third place.
With a quick backward glance I saw a horde of runners behind me splashing through the mud and yelling their warrior battle cries. Time to maintain my position…. With no real goal to compete in Warrior Dash, I was happy to maintain 3rd place just so I could be in front of most people who wants to wait in line at the obstacles? I was probably running about per mile — or significantly slower than my marathon pace. My effort was comfortable but the terrain was tough, which made it a little harder.
Soon the trail widened and cleared of any significant roots or logs so I sped up to about per mile and passed the two runners in front of me. Then I realized I was winning. My competitive instincts took over and I quickly established a new goal of winning my wave of Warrior Dash. I thought how crazy I was, laughed it off, and thought it would be fun. The first obstacle came out of nowhere after a turn: a series of wood barriers that you had to hop over, alternating with a barbed wire fence you had to crawl under.
After a steep hill the trail opened up onto an enormous field. This is when the obstacles really started. Every minute or so a new obstacle presented itself:. The race felt like a fartlek workout: run hard between the obstacles, try not to die climbing twenty feet into the air, jump down, and repeat. Mud Run Guide is here to help you with getting prepared for your first or fiftieth obstacle race or mud run. Whether you are looking to jump into this muddy world for the first time or want to advance your existing knowledge there is a book for you.
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Participants bound over fire, trudge through mud and scale over 12 obstacles during this fierce 5K. From couch potatoes to novice runners to extreme athletes, Warrior Dash truly is an event for all athletic abilities. The inspiration behind Warrior Dash was to create the most bad-ass day possible. It is a day where participants can challenge themselves, be active and get muddy. Participants tackle the course and then celebrate their accomplishments with beer, food and live music.
Warrior Dash is an alternative to the classic 5K and provides an incomparable experience for participants and spectators. The unique combination of athleticism, live music, turkey legs and beer keeps Warriors coming back for more. Warrior Dash is partnered with St.
The St. Jude Warriors program encourages Warrior Dash racers to fundraise for St. With the help of participants Warrior Dash has raised over 2 million dollars for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Red Frog Events prides itself on creating the Active Entertainment Industry, which is a combination of fitness, entertainment and event management.
As a leader in the industry, we strive to make each Warrior Dash more unique and challenging than the last. Innovation is continuously brewing back at Red Frog Events office where the whole team is dreaming up new obstacles and twists for Warrior Dash. In the end, we are in the business of having fun! I wouldn't even call this "Milwaukee" as it was an hour away. It wasn't so much an obstacle run as it was just running a 5k up and down ski hills which was incredibly brutal, hot, and not what I signed up for.
The obstacles were almost all climb up and over ropes or tent shaped structures, or under wire. There was only 1 water obstacle halfway through and one decent mud pit at the very end. All of their social media pages were still active as of the time of this article. Here is a screenshot from Eventsprout, which is another Red Frog owned platform. No word yet on when or how customers who have purchased tickets to future events will be refunded.
Along with Tough Mudder and Spartan Race, Warrior Dash helped kick off the mud run and obstacle racing boom of the next 5 years.
At their peak, Warrior Dash produced 49 events in The last few years have seen that number slowly descend to 23 per year. However, Warrior Dash has been getting healthy numbers, at 4,, attendees per event, as we showed in our recent state of the OCR industry report. This summer festival has been a massive success attracting hundreds of thousands of attendees over the years. Red Frog sold its holdings to the Festival to the Coachella festival producers in No word on yet on what will be happening with the registration platform Eventsprout or the Food and Beverage division they launched a few years ago.
It is a silver lining that comes along with the sad news. In their 10 years, Warrior Dash has been a great entry-level event for many people new to OCR, and we wish the best to their staff and partners who are surely going through a challenging time. Instructions will follow in the coming days. We look forward to seeing you out on the course. Sign up for a or Spartan Race Here. Joe Desena — Founder. If they signed up for a warrior dash that got canceled this year then we can accommodate with a blitz entry.
Send email to [email protected] with proof of purchase for any warrior dash event that was canceled. Rugged Maniac is here to help. This offer only exists until August 16th. This code expires on August 16th, so act now. Due to WD closing down. BoneFrog is offering anyone with proof of registration for any of the events that were canceled a FREE Sprint at one of our events.
You must email into us via FB or IG with proof and we will send you a code. You will be able to upgrade as well once registered. I am right there with ya! Took the weekend off for this event and we also had a group from my gym sign up to do this. And the kicker is nothing yet from Warrior Dash stating the race is canceled. Totally agree. I found out from a damn FB post. I get the feeling no fees will be refunded.
Really annoyed. I purchased 5 as a Christmas gift back in November; plus purchased in advance to take advantage of the discount. Just put a dispute with my CC company — hopefully I get something back.
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