A local 27-year-old will be participating in a Spartan Race this weekend. It not an easy feat — especially in a wheelchair.

As part of the annual Dubai Fitness Challenge, Spartan Race and Tough Mudder will take over the Wadi Hub at Hatta Resorts on ...

If you’re prepping for a Spartan race on your own there are five moves Liles swears by: pull-ups, uphill runs (or stairs), planks, carries, and squats. Yep, simple but super effective.

Training for a Spartan is no easy feat -- now it's time to put all that hard work to the test and complete your first Spartan Race. Before you go, make sure you have everything you need to be safe ...

Spartan Race Inc., the extreme obstacle-race organization founded and led by entrepreneur and TV personality Joe De Sena, is delaying prize-money payments to contestants during an ongoing cash crunch.

In 2015, Arthur Franklin started running Spartan races when he was 57 years old, and what piqued his interest was the Ninja Warrior Competition and seeing a Spartan race on ESPN.

Jose Cordero, a 45-year-old from Elizabeth, NJ, completed a Spartan Race series — despite being afraid of heights, scared of water and once having weighed 550 pounds.

Spartan obstacle course races are known to leave competitors physically spent and slathered in mud from head-to-toe, proudly worn like a hard-earned battle scar. The dirtier, the better.

Spartan Races are held all over the country and are popular for their dozens of intense obstacles, including jumping through fire, climbing ropes in mud pits and jumping over walls.

The Spartan Foundation has pledged to donate the proceeds from 300 race entries sold (an estimated $50,000) to Shriners Hospitals for Children, which has a location here in Houston.

Joe De Sena, founder of the Spartan Race series, discusses the Agoge, which he promises will be his company’s “most challenging event yet,” a 60-hour ordeal that will test the physical and ...

FORT BENNING, Ga., (March 30 2016) -- The Reebok Spartan Race is known as one of the most challenging and innovative obstacle races in the world. Spartan hosts more than 130 races around the globe ...