Welcome to Spartan Athlete here on the Spartan Up podcast. We talk to some of the best athletes in the business.

They're going to give you tips and tricks and techniques on ways for you to conquer the course.

I'm here with Nicole Miracle, Proteamer, all around, great lady. How are you?

I'm good. I'm really happy to see you again.

It's great to see you.

Do you mean that?

Yeah, of course. You are a phenomenal bolderer and climber.

Can we talk a little bit about how that's helped you in the obstacle racing?

Yeah, I came into obstacle course racing from a background with running and climbing and no obstacle specific training.

And I would say that I was able to come in and like make an immediate impact in the sport.

I definitely had some some slip-ups here and there in the definitely the first two years

of racing but in general I came in pretty well prepared and I think that's

mainly due to my my climbing background.

What are your tips for new folks who want to work on that grip strength in the old

climbing gym? I think that the best thing to do is to at first just go and climb and kind of get used to

how your body moves on the wall and different types of holds

definitely when you're first starting out climbing you don't need to go on to like the

campus board or the hang board or anything like that but just climbing will be

really beneficial. How much running versus bouldering or other physical fitness do you do?

I would say I run five days a week about 40 miles a week and I'm in the

climbing gym probably four times a week and that could be about two hours

of time I would say.

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