My Bucket List / Fitness Goals
Complete A Spartan Trifecta
Ticked off in October 2014
What it is
A Spartan Trifecta means finishing all three main Spartan obstacle race distances in one calendar year: the Sprint (5 km and 20 obstacles), the Super (10 km and 25 obstacles) and the Beast (21 km and 30 obstacles). Do all three and you earn the Trifecta medal.
How to do it
Pick a weekend where one venue hosts all three races, or spread them out across the season. Failed obstacles cost you 30 burpees.
Top tip
Practise burpees and grip strength. The rope climb, spear throw and monkey bars catch most people out.
My experience
I’ve now done the Trifecta four times:
- 2014: Sprint and Super at Pippingford on 30 and 31 August, then the Beast at Pippingford on 11 October.
- 2015: Sprint at Allianz Park in May, then the Super and Beast at Hastings in September.
- 2018: all three in one weekend at Windsor, 6 and 7 October.
- 2025: all three in one weekend at Santa Susanna, Spain, 18 and 19 October, after a Spartan Ultra in Liberec in August.