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Posted on August 3, 2015 by Margaret Schlachter
Last week I wrote about the path of rewilding through obstacle racing. The sport of OCR has transformed lives and honestly transformed the sporting landscape drastically over the past couple of years. Many still may not know what this whole industry is, but more and more commercials, media, and corporations......
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Posted on July 29, 2015 by Margaret Schlachter
Rewilding is a term entered into my lexicon recently. If you do a google search on the term you will find a variety of definitions and explanations on what this term means. It can cover restoring and protecting lands but also it can be applied to humans. This application to......
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Posted on June 17, 2015 by Margaret Schlachter
The OCR industry is huge, and still growing. The industry includes competitive obstacle races, mud runs, rucks, and other quirky events. Runners World has called it non-traditional racing as also includes events like color runs and other themed events. While each has their own definition of what OCR is to them......
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Posted on March 23, 2015 by Margaret Schlachter
Last time I went to Florida for an obstacle race was in 2012. I took away more than a medal from a now defunct race series that weekend. A month later, while in Colorado, for a wedding I would end up spending a night in a hospital, being poked, tested......
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Posted on March 10, 2015 by Margaret Schlachter
Growing up I was not what you would call a dog person. An initial encounter with a very scary (or so I have been told) dog trying to jump a fence into my stroller is definitely something that will leave a mark. Though the years my parents had dogs, but......