Spartan Pro: A Eulogy

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

Sports:running, Running, Sports, Health & Fitness, Fitness

5 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Spartan Racing, in the Pro Ranks, is dead and gone in North America. Athletes haven’t been paid in years, numbers have flatlined, and the opportunity to make a living as a Spartan Athlete is no longer a thing. So, today we remember peak Spartan Race. Not in sadness, but as a celebration of what once was!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the running public with Brack and Crocker and Kirk DeWint.
0:12.4	It's Tuesday, folks, and you know what that means, Training Tuesday.
0:15.7	We are going to take every rabbit hole, follow tangents, use useless metaphors, get lost in the weeds.
0:22.4	This is Training Tuesday.
0:32.9	When you're ready to take your training or racing to the next level, go to the running public.com.
0:38.3	We have both monthly subscription training plans, $1999 a month, and Bracken and I both offer one-on-one customized coaching.
0:47.3	Again, go to the running public.com and check out our offerings.
0:51.1	A little leggy today.
0:52.7	She appears to be online, bracken.
0:55.1	We're online.
0:56.3	Kirk, before we get started, I want to pose something to the audience here.
1:01.7	This is not the monetization of the podcast that they're expecting to hear.
1:06.7	We're not selling ads.
1:08.0	We're not doing anything like that.
1:09.1	But this weekend, as I was telling you offline here, not online, but off recording, I finally
1:15.6	cleaned my office here.
1:17.4	And it was really, really bad.
1:20.9	But in doing so, I uncovered an embarrassing amount of shoes that have never been worn.
1:28.8	I'm listening.
1:30.1	And most are shoes that were sent to me in the wrong size or that in a few
1:35.4	our shoes I ordered and just like fit a half size off or have ordered for Lisa
1:40.2	or someone's like, hey, I'm going to have you test this, but I know Lisa runs.
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