There are many sports out there. SB Nation’s Spencer Hall isn’t good at any of them. Join him as he shows off his athletic anti-prowess while attempting various sporting activities for the first time in the “The Amateur.” In this edition, Hall heads to the Georgia back-country to run in Warrior Dash, and 3.2 mile course with XTREEM obstacles, most of which feature mud. Lots and lots of mud.
The Amateur: Warrior Dash, Where Things Get 1990s Xtreem (Sort Of)
Extreme, brah. At one point in the 90s, everyone put climbing gear in their trunk, bumper stickers on their RAV-4s advertising all the extreme places they’d been, and got very, very concerned with waters and nutrition bars. They needed the most EXTREME nutrition needed to keep an EXTREME pace for weekends spent white-water rafting off cliffs before deploying the parachute inevitably landing them on the mountain bike riding to the internet start-up they would be fired from in a matter of months.
You’ll remember this as the era when even mundane movie characters began basejumping unnecessarily, like the infamous scene in Fargo where Steve Buscemi and Frances McDormand fight over a single parachute after falling from a tall grain silo. It was a stupid time, and it’s why even smart people are asked to fill out expense reports now.
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