Highlights from the XDubai Spartan Race 2016. Hundreds of people gathered at the Jebel Ali Racecourse to test their endurance at the second installment of the XDubai Spartan Race. The Spartan race is for athletes of all ages and abilities and aims to inspire people to step away from the TV’S and couches and lead a fitter healthier life.See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00The ex-Dubai Spartan race came back to Dubai for the second installment of their world-famous endurance race.
00:10The event features two distances called the Spartan Sprint, a 5k power race through brutal desert conditions peppered with 20 obstacles,
00:17and the Spartan Super, a grueling 13k run through the unforgiving sand under the sweltering sun incorporating 25 plus obstacles.
00:25Both races utilize a range of obstacles including the now infamous barbed wire crawls, rope climbs, tire flips, slip walls,
00:35spear throwing, a fire jump right before the end, and many, many more.
00:40Competitors waiting for their heat to begin get into the zone with stretches and muscle loosening exercises and most are confident the race will be fun.
00:47I think it's going to be a lot of fun, I'm just worried about the ropes, but we'll see what we can do.
00:52Just have a good laugh and hopefully not die at the end of it, that's good.
00:55Good fun, most important, and to see how long it takes.
01:02I think it's going to be pretty hard, but I think we're going to have fun with it as well.
01:06After completing all the obstacles and making it to the finish line, competitors are awarded with a medal and gain the prestige of having finished such a demanding race.
01:13Good, good, really hard, hard running in the sand, but overall it's a great race, it's really good, really fun.
01:19It was my first race of this kind, honestly it was a lot more difficult than I thought.
01:24In a lot of places you run on grass and stuff, running on this dirt is honestly at least 30% tougher than running on a flat surface.
01:33It was a good challenge though, really good challenge.
01:36If there was another word to describe how difficult it was, I'll tell you right now, it was crazy.
01:41This one, started cramping out of my mind, like I wanted to stop and just stretch my muscles out for a minute, but I mean we made it man.
01:48We all finished, got our medals, we finished at slightly different times, a couple of minutes apart, but you know, here we are.
01:54In the beginning it's a lot of running to spread out the group a little bit, so it's some easy obstacles,
02:00and then after a while you get a few harder ones that are easy to miss, and then it's just keep coming.
02:08While the heats are competitive, the Spartan Race is for athletes of all ages and abilities,
02:12and aims to inspire people to step away from their TVs and couches and lead a healthier, fitter lifestyle.
02:18Logan Fish, for Golf News.