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…
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…