Racing as a Team in Spartan // Spartan ATHLETE 014

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Gillotti talks with Ashley Heller, Kaci Monroe, Emilee Smith about what it takes to race together as a team & the nuances and considerations before a race, and out on the race course, and building a team & working with others to get the job done.

TAKE AWAY POINTS:
Consider your teammates across several criteria beyond just friends
Be sure to train together as a team
Know each teammates strengths & exploit them
Have a strategy, but be fluid

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CREDITS:
Host: Kevin Gillotti
Show Notes & Artwork: Kevin Gillotti
Producer: Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Videography: Madison McGahan, Mike Isabell, Alberto Campos
Editing: Heather Knox

Transcript

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0:00.0	This week we're talking with Ashley, Casey, and Emily, and they're going to tell us what it's like and what it takes to race together as a team.
0:09.0	Hey Spartans, this is Kevin Jalotti, and welcome to the Spartan athlete.
0:13.0	We've got one of the women's teams here racing this weekend in Tahoe,
0:18.0	but what I'm more curious about is a lot of our Spartan races have team events.
0:22.0	So you got to put together a team. How did
0:24.6	you guys decide that you wanted to be a team and did you have criteria of who you
0:30.1	all agreed upon was going to get selected or how did it come to happen? So I kind of
0:35.6	spearheaded it I suppose and I put together like this pecking order. No I'm just
0:40.1	kidding I didn't tell it all.
0:44.0	Seemed reasonable.
0:44.8	Right.
0:45.9	And they had to meet all these specific criteria.
0:47.6	No.
0:48.6	They have the given interview a blood test.
0:51.6	Yeah, exactly.
0:52.8	And I had to like them, no.
0:54.8	But Casey and I actually have been, I guess,
0:58.3	kind of friends for a while in this sport
1:00.0	and we spend some time on the start line together.
1:02.4	So I reached out to her asking
1:04.1	her if she wanted to do it and then Emily and I had also met kind of the same way and I
1:08.2	just picked two people that I thought we would all get along and they're pretty red
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