Questions & Answers: Why The Spartan/Tough Mudder Competitions?

It was a perfect question at a perfect time.  Back in 2015, I put my mind, body and spirit to the test.  In one of the most difficult races of my life, I saw everything flash before my eyes: ewwwww! Black man! Negro! Pimp! Black people are disgusting! -- yes, these are the comments that...

Ramble of Positivity: 5th Anniversary In Thailand

It's been an unbelievable 5 years.  Wow, how can I even put it into context. I will try highlighting this through pictures. First Three Years You understand where my focus was, right? 2013-2015 were the rough years with lots of racial influences, advertisements, and me focusing on "what I didn't want." I had a woman...

Darren Hardy: Chapter 6 – Acceleration

First time I did a Tough Mudder in Melbourne, Australia, I was stoked.  I mean I remember the long drive there, the cool temperatures, the enthusiasts at a pit-stop along the way wearing leggings.  I mean the build up was insane.  My best friend, Joy, was just driving casually; meanwhile, the energy going through my...

Health Goals For 2018

This is going to be a little bit of a difficult year for me because of the sporadic races on terrible dates (in regards to Spartan). For example, the Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur sprint will fall on the day I will be in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.  This will make it a little bit difficult for...

Napoleon Hill – Failure – Introduction of My Physical Failure

Let me paint this picture of this life-turning night at Palo Verde High School back in May of 2005. I was a 300m intermediate-hurdler who was favored to at least make it to the Sunrise Regional Championships.  I remember I failed miserably at the 110HH - not intentionally, but because I was more focused on...

Spartan Race Looming Large!

This will be the first ever Spartan Race in Chon Buri, Thailand and I'm not even worried.  For the most part, there's a huge underestimation of the race happening within my mind that will sneak up on me. Malaysia Was A Rude Awakening I thought the Spartan Super in Kuala Lumpur was going to be...

Can You Physically Prepare For Sufferfests?

What is a sufferfest? This is basically  your household Spartan Races (although they're much funner), Tough Mudders (notable obstacles: Arctic Enema & Electro Shock Therapy); and then there are the upper echelon sufferfests.  I'm talking about the marathons, ironmans, ultra-marathons, anything that involves you pushing yourself, like Amelia Boone does, to the absolute limit. Amelia...

Tough Mudder – Tempe, Arizona

I've done Melbourne, Australia (the worst mudder because it was the first with massively massive hills) 2 years ago; Bali, Indonesia last year (extremely rough terrain, but absolutely gorgeous); and now Tempe, AZ in the USA.  I got 2.5 tough mudders under my belt, and I was hoping to get my 3x mudder headband, but...

The Main Reason Why People Don’t Travel

If you look at your bank account right now, and you don't have the funds to buy a flight + hotel + plane ticket, you wouldn't think twice about traveling, right? This is probably the main reason why people just don't travel. Let me put this more into perspective.....I'm going back to America for the...

Gelatin – Is It Good or Bad? America Takes The Affirmative & Thailand Takes The Negative

About a year ago, I was engagement in one of those idle-gossip-conversations at work that involved a teacher spewing rhetoric about factories in Thailand.  At the time I was eating candy that contained Gelatin, an ingredient that's literally put into candy here and in Germany for some odd reason and the British teacher ERUPTED.... "Omg,...