Inspired by brutal 7th century training tactics of their namesake, Spartan, the organizer of some of the world’s toughest obstacle course races, has introduced the Agoge event. The race, which takes ...

To Joe De Sena’s credit, he never seemed out of breath, despite conducting a recent, 20-minute phone interview while climbing flights of stairs. “I’ve got a little routine,” explained the 47-year-old ...

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CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Jumping logs, doing walking lunges, climbing rope and doing lots of push-ups... Jeff ignatowski will do all of that and more this weekend in Vermont when he takes on an epic ...

Teddy Rojas and his girlfriend Sarah Ingraham didn’t expect the Spartan AGOGE 002 event to be easy. And it certainly wasn’t. The pair recently returned from their first grueling AGOGE series endurance ...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- In ancient Sparta, young men were required to attend Agoge, a school which instilled the principles of and taught the skills necessary for being a part of a ...

Obstacle course racing (OCR) has boomed in recent years and every event will lay claim to being the biggest, the baddest and the best. From the original Tough Guy race, designed to be so hard few ...