Four of our Crew Members took on the Bonefrog Challenge in Washington, DC this past weekend.

Eric Zucaro took 1st place overall in the TIER-1 open class with an overall time of 2:22:13.  He completed every TIER-1 obstacle, except for the grenade toss, securing his first podium spot in his OCR career.

​Spartan Race returned to Blue Mountain in Palmerton, PA for a second round of the Sprint Course on Saturday, July 15th. Crew members showed up in strong numbers again, many taking on the mountain for a second or third time this month! The course was much muddier than last week and the heat grew more humid as they day went on.

In the Elite division, Ben Kinsinger took 2nd place Overall with a time of 58:25. Richie Hilton went burpee-free in 1:11:36 to take 20th Male Elite. Luke Walsh (1:16:49) was close behind grabbing 38th Overall Elite, and right behind Luke was Jason Braham (1:16:54). Derek Rozanski (1:21) was happy to shave 7 minutes off his time from the week prior. Tom Spitzer (1:36:59) and Justin Rindner (1:39:29) also raced Elite.

June kicked off with a very exciting race weekend. The majority of our members represented at the Goliathon Obstacle Challenge in Mullica Hill, NJ. This event allows participants to choose between 3 levels of difficulty at 12 different obstacles and they are awarded points based on which level they complete. Team points were calculated by combining the Top 3 Male and Top 3 Female scorers on each team. The Crew came in with 257 points (39 G3's completed) and took First Place overall! We are the first OCR team in the history of the event to win!

​A very wet and breezy day welcomed The Crew at the Spartan Citi Field Stadium Race in Flushings, New York. We had 9 members take on the slippery course which ran fast despite the rain. Members noted a lack in the usual number of obstacles but still enjoyed the race. Richie Hilton (38:43) took 34th Elite Overall (Top 16%) after going burpee free. Brent Becher (39:59) also ran burpee free for 47th Elite Overall. Luke Walsh battled through a nutrition mix up that led to a little stomach issue but still managed to complete the race in 43:54. Brandon Martin slipped on the pavement early in the race and tweaked his wrist causing him to later miss the spear throw and put in 30 burpees. He finished in 46:12.​ Eric Zucaro felt the benefits of his crossfit focus on the stadium obstacles and happily went burpee free in 48:05.

​Blog post written by Crew member Faith Elliott.
 
As tradition holds, the last weekend in April meant the New Jersey Beast and Ultra Beast weekend.  With nearly half of our members taking on the Vernon mountain for both races, goals ranged from “just finishing” to earning first trifectas, improving times, and even podiuming.

The 2017 OCR season is starting to bud on the East Coast and this past weekend The Crew OCR represented in the North and South. At the Savage Race in Dallas, GA, Ben Kinsinger kicked off his year with a 2nd place podium with a time of 46:51.
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Much further north at the 8th F.I.T. Challenge in Cumberland, RI, four Crew members took on a very challenging course with much cooler weather. Each lap was approximately 3.77 miles with 35 obstacles and 1,100 feet of elevation gain. 

Recap by Crew member Faith Elliott.

Two Crew couples, Jason Devlin and Faith Elliott and Tom and Lulu Spitzer, decided to venture out to Sin City for the Las Vegas Spartan Race weekend where the theme quickly became #dustandsand.
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Jason started out the Saturday Super in the middle of the pack of the Elite Heat in his first race since an ankle injury in December, carefully navigating the miles of soft, beach-like sand. Faith hit the start corral next in the Competitive heat and only let the Multi-Rig and Spear Throw cause her burpees, successfully completing the new Olympus, Bender, and Twister obstacles and securing her 2017 qualification for OCR World Championships.