Spartan Race Washington

Depending where you live, the drive can be long since it is located in the middle of no where. This is a very fun and quick race where you can spend most of your day here with family and friends. Most people finish the 3 – 5 mile race in about 1 – 2 hours for this Spartan Sprint.
If you volunteer you are able to get a free volunteer spartan t-​shirt and free entry for the race. Volunteering was fun but hard work. You get to set up the obstacles and see what goes on behind the scenes. Free lunch is served when you volunteer all day.
I recommend to sign up to race earlier in the day because the course can get messed up from being ran on as the day passes by. Make sure to wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty or throwing away because you will get very muddy! Try to wear lighter clothing because when your clothes gets wet you will feel the weight. There is so much fun obstacles during the course. You even have an obstacle to jump over to get to the starting line, before the race even begins.
Sucks they took out the water slide in 2015.(For safety reasons of course)
This year the race started with an uphill battle and a jump into icy cold water. Some of my favorite obstacles included the cargo nets and wall climbs. The mud crawl was fun and looked easy at first but the cold mud really slows you down. The toughest obstacle was probably the one where you have to carry a bucket of rocks up and down the mountainous hill while water is being sprayed on you.
Just before the finish line is three obstacles. The multi-​rig, rope climb, and the ‘fire’ jump into the water. I was sad there was no fire when you run later in the day. At the finish line they give you your race medals and they have people taking photos as well as free bananas and protein.
There is also a little kids race that they can do which is shorter and easier.
They could have given better instructions to where the finisher shirts were located because I had no idea until I saw people wearing it and also a lot of people were asking where to get them. There is a wash off area with alot of hoses where you can spray yourself down and get cleaned up. There are Male and Female «changing rooms». It is basically two tents set up. The Men’s changing tent was sad with only like 10 chairs inside and that was it. I guess its the best they can do for that. There are also alot of restroom porta-​potties. The wait was actually not that long to use the restrooms.
There is a big area of stands where everyone can look around the different businesses and also fun obstacles to try. There is a beer garden and racers get one free beer for 21+.
When you leave you also get a drawstring backpack with spartan stickers and ads.
Parking was actually not too bad when I went early and they had a pretty good system down. There is only one road so cars that were coming and going had a tough time getting through.
Overall, the whole event was a great experience. It was very fun and I would recommend anyone to do this for whoever wants a challenge or just to have fun with a group of people.

2014 course was great. Good challenge mentally and physically. Make sure you train for this, it is not a walk in the park. Wear knee pads for sure. Will help with traction but will save the skin on your knees. Highly recommend doing these races and the training will help you in the long run. So put down the remote, phone, iPad etc and get yourself healthy and challenge yourself

Incredible event. DO IT!
The organization for this was outstanding. The level of difficulty for each obstacle was excellent — you really felt like you earned it, IF you completed it.
Examples of some obstacles:
— carrying buckets of gravel
— sandbags
— lots of barbed wire crawling
— HUGE triple slip-​and-​slide that launches you into water. I mean HUGE.
— rope climbing
— wall climbing
It was all awesome. So worth the time and money. Parking was easy, getting registered was easy, knowing where to go was easy. Plan to spend the day out there. They provide a great cleanup area where you can hose off and then head to the beer garden or play around on the obstacles set up for spectators (flipping tires, climbing ropes, etc). This is a GREAT place to bring adult spectators, who are allowed to walk around to the obstacles and get up close to the mayhem.
Do it!

Gawd. My knees. They look like I fought 30 ninjas on a field of sharpened Legos, only using only my knees.
Despite that, this was one of the best organized obstacle runs I have ever done. And the swag was rad! You’re given a timing chip, a headband pre-​printed with your bib number to run with. That, with the bib number on your arm, and the bib itself, they really want to make sure they identify you for the many photographers on the path.
Some of you may be going, «Wow, but it’s only a 5K» and though I prefer long distance running/​obstacle courses, I have to tell you: I was surprised. It also took us nearly a hour and a half to complete. The combination of the constant steep hills, the intensity of the obstacles of themselves… this race does not disappoint! I’ve done a couple of Tough Mudders, and I have to say that this was just as physical, even though TM is 4x the distance with about 10 more obstacles. And I could never do another Warrior Dash or Survivor Mud Run after doing this 5K; I’ve been spoiled!
Flipping tractor tires, scaling walls, horizontal hand/​feet walks, inverted wall climbs, rope climbs over water, dragging another tractor tire only to have to pull it by rope immediately after. Running up a trail with a sandbag, using pulleys to lift cement buckets, throwing a spear, a constant tirade of mud, water, and knee crawling under barbed wire, swimming under a wall… and I can’t forget about dragging a cement block with a chain while carrying a log on your shoulder!
Here, I ran into the most difficult obstacle I have ever done. A huge, STEEP mud hill re-​wetted constantly that you had to try and belly-​climb – all under barbed wire. You made some headway, then would slide down on a sea of people. Your entire body stays flexed the whole time, and it took us about 20 minutes to do it. The top 1/​3, there’s a rope to drag yourself up the rest of the way. The barbed wire caught me at least 7x during it, and managed to rip my Team Pandavores tank top!
Oh yeah… any time that you didn’t do something correctly (my spear missed the target) you have to do 30 burpees as punishment. I had to do 60 of them total over the course.
So the rules of engagement: help your fellow Spartan ALWAYS, ALWAYS stop for water, wear fingerless gloves, be on time for your run, and train for hills. Most people walked a majority of the course – that’s how steep it is O_​o The next time I do this, I hope I don’t have a nagging back injury so I can run for time! I also recommend making a weekend of it; I came from Seattle for Spartan and had a built-​in excuse to enjoy some fun in Portland.
The 5^th star is missing just because there were too many knee obstacles, but next time, we’ll just tape our knees to prepare!