Obstacle Racing as a Long WOD

While most CF workouts are 15-30 minutes, some benchmarks and hero WODs could reach an hour. What about 2-4 hours and above? Long endurance and stamina work is rarely on standard programming except at SealFit – it gives an alternative to long, slow distance work like half marathons or century bike rides.
Obstacle racing has many CrossFit-like features: it is all functional movements, varied metabolic pathways and physical skills (explosive strength, stamina, balance, accuracy, etc). In addition, doing movements like rope climbs or wall climbs after 8-mile steep mountain runs, it becomes more mental and adds stamina to traditional movements.
Today’s Super Spartan race gave us 8 miles of steep hills, 20 obstacles and that great mental challenge too.