Cody Moat and Lindsay Webster Capture 2017 Reebok Spartan Race World Championship (Video highlights)

The race coverage was incredibly bad. Hours of aerial footage of trees and two guys yammering away about things they couldn't see either.

Seems like it would be really easy in this day and age to have cameras actually filming all parts of the course.

You ever run a ocr(obstacle course race)?? If you have, then you know these are run on mountains or in very rough/isolated areas. I believe its hard to get cameras and tv crew in all parts of the mountains. I watched the whole race online and it was very good! They did capture the finish with a series of tough obstacles.

Was that a glimpse of that narcissistic liar Hobie Call at the beginning of the men's race?

OCR ADDICT wrote:

You ever run a ocr(obstacle course race)?? If you have, then you know these are run on mountains or in very rough/isolated areas. I believe its hard to get cameras and tv crew in all parts of the mountains. I watched the whole race online and it was very good! They did capture the finish with a series of tough obstacles.

Sure. They got the obstacles up there and they presumably have to have medical attention available if needed. They had virtually no coverage except the last little part. Send people out with a go pro and a drone FFS.

The coverage sucked hard and they will have to address that if they want it to be a viable potential Olympic sport.

The first televised Winter Games were probably covered better than that clown show.

What happened to my boy Ryan Woods!!?

Did he flame out again in the 2nd half? Dude, I had my money on him. Thought he could finally figure it out.

That Jon Albon just placed 2nd to Killian Jornet in Norway SkyRunning event. Complete athlete.

Albon also has years to get stronger for the non-running portions.

Hobie spotter wrote:

Was that a glimpse of that narcissistic liar Hobie Call at the beginning of the men's race?

What lies? Not sure if you know what narcissistic means.

Delusional pipe-dreamer maybe wrote:

Hobie spotter wrote:

Was that a glimpse of that narcissistic liar Hobie Call at the beginning of the men's race?

What lies? Not sure if you know what narcissistic means.

Lies about his mile PR. "I ran a 3:57 in training"

And he's narcissistic, if you care to take notice. Yes, I do know what it means.

Hobie spotter wrote:

Delusional pipe-dreamer maybe wrote:

What lies? Not sure if you know what narcissistic means.

Lies about his mile PR. "I ran a 3:57 in training"

And he's narcissistic, if you care to take notice. Yes, I do know what it means.

He ran it down a steep hill which is totally feasible and I've never heard him be more than self-deprecating if quite delusional at the same time.

At least now that he's retired an opening is there for you to emerge from the basement and do a little yard work for your mom and dominate the OCR scene for a few years like Hobie did.

the call of Hobie wrote:

Hobie spotter wrote:

Lies about his mile PR. "I ran a 3:57 in training"

And he's narcissistic, if you care to take notice. Yes, I do know what it means.

He ran it down a steep hill which is totally feasible and I've never heard him be more than self-deprecating if quite delusional at the same time.

At least now that he's retired an opening is there for you to emerge from the basement and do a little yard work for your mom and dominate the OCR scene for a few years like Hobie did.

OK Hobie - if you want to claim a downhill "mile" of 3:57 in a training run that no one saw on a non certified course as an actual PR, then you pretty much prove my point.

Sounds like Hobie stole your HVAC job and forced you to go back to pizza delivery.

There was plenty of live footage on Facebook from all over the course. I even watched some live footage with the guy running next to the leaders. This sport is still growing and they will figure it out as far as tv coverage. But I will say, the future in ocr is shorter courses that will be over in 1hr or less.

OCR ADDICT wrote:

There was plenty of live footage on Facebook from all over the course. I even watched some live footage with the guy running next to the leaders. This sport is still growing and they will figure it out as far as tv coverage. But I will say, the future in ocr is shorter courses that will be over in 1hr or less.

A 5K would be about perfect. 12 obstacles and a sprint to the finish. No need to cut away to commercials.

Yes, 3k-5k allows the perfect mix of obstacles and running.

Of course the sport is already going down the road of ultra-events where people stagger around a course seeing how many laps they can do in 24 hours

Fun fact: Rea Kolbl (who finished in the top 5) is a Stanford grad student in a rigorous program.

the call of Hobie wrote:

Sounds like Hobie stole your HVAC job and forced you to go back to pizza delivery.

Ouch! You really burned me there, Hobie!