A few weeks back, the founder of Spartan Race, Joe De Sena, called me. Covid-19 was wrecking havoc with the world of endurance sports and he was hoping to put a coalition of endurance sports leaders together to see if they could combine forces to get some government support for an industry that has been…
Joe De Sena is one of my all-time favorite interviews and the founder and creator of Spartan Race, which now has 271 races in 41 countries. His next venture? Spartan Trail! Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels Endurance Zone TV Velofix Links Babbittville Radio on Apple Podcasts Babbitt Media Group…
One of Joe De Sena’s early races had a total of eight participants. How things have changed! There are now over 200 Spartan Races around the world drawing over one million participants, plus a top ranked TV show on NBC. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels…
Tony Matesi is the Director of Endurance for Spartan Race. After finishing the Spartan Death Race, he created some 24 hour events to prepare people to compete in the Death Race. In 2013 he joined the Spartan team and created longer team-building initiatives including Agoge, which was a system of training created by the Spartans.…
Rose Wetzel, who ran in high school and at Georgetown, is one of nine kids and is now one of the best Spartan racers in the world. Even better? Her personality is off the charts! Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels Endurance Zone TV Velofix Links…
When Misty Diaz was born back in 1984 with Spina Bifida, her organs were outside of her body, her spine was open, and her parents were told that she would never be able to eat on her own or walk. She suffered through 28 operations growing up. On April 21, 2012, she ran for the…
Coach Mike King was a cross country runner and a gymnast growing up. During his career in IT, he realized that his health was slipping away because of a lack of exercise, little sleep, and a bad diet. So he made a career move to coaching and personal training has never looked back. His successful…
Amelia Boone is a lawyer living and working in Chicago who just happens to be a Runner’s World Cover Gal and the best female Spartan Racer on the planet – with a win at the 2013 Spartan World Championship. She came on to chat about her early days of playing soccer and softball before leaving…
Matt “The Bear” Novakovich has been on an amazing athletic journey. Just like Ned Overend who ran cross country, did the Ironmnan, got into mountain marathons and road cycling before discovering his true calling on a mountain bike, the 41 year old Spartan Racing legend from Alaska raced the Steeplechase in College at BYU, ran…
Joe De Sena is the creator of The Spartan Race, which has now grown to 137 events in 17 countries. In 2014 850,000 participants did his events and in 2015 that number could exceed one million. How did the event start? What did he learn from his days on Wall Street that transferred over to…