Day: 5 November 2019

The Spartan Race

What luck that we just arrived in Sparta the day the Trifecta World Championship started!! Spartan Race is a series of steeplechases. There is the Spartan Sprint (3+ miles of obstacle racing, 20+ obstacles), the Spartan Super (8+ miles, 25+ obstacles), the Spartan Beast (13+ miles, 30+ obstacles), and the Spartan Ultra (30+ miles, 60+ obstacles). …

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On the way to Sparta

A fantastic road connects Kalamáta with Sparta, crossing the Taígettos mountains over a pass at 1,300 metres. We started this tour in Kalamáta and drove up through the valley of the Nédonas river. In general the road was very good, just on some points it is sliding away, so the road is narrowed to one …

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