Spartan National Series 2021 Elite Women Coverage | Utah 2021

spartan is back i'm david magee and we're here in ogden utah for race two of the spartan u.s national series presented by usana a 14 mile beast course on the slopes of snow basin resort 34 obstacles 4 000 feet of elevation gain of rocky steep rugged terrain we're in for a good battle the women are just getting ready to take off and the story of the day is the season premiere of lindsay webster after missing the first race of the series webster looks prepared to defend her national series title looking to challenge her will be contenders rose wetzel casey monroe raya coble and many others expect a wild and unpredictable battle for the podium let's go [Music] [Music] oh wow [Music] [Music] [Applause] um mmm thank you so so good job so uh we're standing here near the top of the steepest portion of the first ascent of this three climb course lindsay webster is leading the field right now to the top of this first climb where they'll have olympus and then a two mile descent back down the mountain crossover technique renee there you go the crossover keeps you balanced annie doobie sitting in third place right now about to move into second with renee mctivier sitting in second as well rose wetzel right there vying for a podium spot a little bit of hesitancy from motivier as lauren weeks is now on olympus as well so now you're getting the class of the women's field all together lindsay webster out in front second place now is annie dube a solid first climb out of annie she's moving on and now you have a battle between rose wetzel renemative taking burpees over here at olympus right now and alex walker on there as well a penalty loop out of her name to tibia [Applause] maybe first place lindsay webster about seven miles in good job good job good stuff well we're here at mile 9 just before bender and lindsey webster is making the next ascent on this race she's out there all by herself she's broken away from the field early with no nicole miracle to stand in her way we expected a dominant race that lindsay webster she's been training hard with minimal races and now we're seeing the fruits of her labor phenomenal climbing and descending from lindsay webster today she's got one more big climb and then the big downhill and gauntlet finish to claim those 300 points to regain her lead in the u.s national series oh huh [Music] all right so second place woman has just arrived at bender just a few minutes behind lindsey webster that's annie dube speed mountain goat over here she's one of those east coast racers that we didn't anticipate seeing up behind on the podium you know we talked about hers maybe being a dark horse in this race but she's giving it her best shot at a second place finish and we don't see the third place until right behind it looks like rose wetzel has just moved to the third position as well so a race for second lindsay webster way out in front but annie dube making herself known a strong firm established second place position just ahead of rose wetzel in third [Music] so one of the og's of this sport rose wetzel taking me back to the 2014 days of dominance she's back here fighting for a podium spot and she's not far off of second place right now [Applause] so uh okay nice one nice job that's right nice huh yes good job guys oh good job you two things are run so so uh happens thank you [Applause] stop annie third place i thought i lost you there for a bit yeah [Music] nice no oh my god there you go so the last i saw yeah nice and steady [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] hey yeah i'm good got second and third right [Applause] here oh oh [Music] oh good job keep it up awesome job then where do i go down here down to me down to me here we go zero you could use the carabiner or golo if you'd like on this next one good job nice all right thank you where do i go my friends let's go nice come on pass all the boys [Music] [Music] [Music] up [Applause] um [Music] [Applause] [Music] and lindsay webster coming off the slip wall your champion today the 300 points 8 000 prize is hers lindsay webster wins the [Applause] day [Applause] [Music] you can still get here [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] push [Music] [Applause] [Music] there you go get a little reckless you gotta rose come on [Music] come on [Music] oh [Applause] ladies and gentlemen [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right well i'm sitting here with lindsay webster your women's champion of the day here in utah lindsey take us through that race oh man it's it started pretty good like renee was moving fast and my goal was just to conserve and not redline or overheat because i think that's really the one thing that could have seriously shut down my or anybody's race today um i had a really rough middle section after the second climb up to like in between that and the third climb i think the altitude was just like murdering me and i really didn't feel like i was moving very fast but suffered through it and i think i'm like used to suffering and trail running but i forgot how painful like spartan races and the obstacles can be mentally sometimes so it was a good good refresher i mean it's been a while since you've done a lot of serious long races like is it great to be back it is it's amazing i've done some like local efforts and stuff but um yeah obstacle racing is it's still very different from trio running because i think it's it's just more mentally taxing like um i thought that bucket and sandbag carry were going to be up at the top and i was sure it was going to be a double and it was going to be like long palm return style and i spent the whole race just dreading it and then of course it was like at the very end and it was short and easy so yeah little things like that that play with your mind and what are your thoughts for the rest of the series moving forward this year sorry yeah i'm really excited i think there's some strong new girls in the field this year which i was really nervous about and yeah like lots of different courses that we're going to be running on which will play to individual people's strengths and stuff so i'm excited for the rest of it it was definitely a good refresher and hopefully you know can keep going up from here well congratulations you got asheville coming up next good luck there and congrats again today yeah thanks two weeks next one let's do it jumped up to uh bender and then every obstacle after i cramped so you were just fighting cramps the whole rest of the race whole thing the whole thing well you held on i couldn't believe i like like i walked up the steps to get onto monkey bars and like cramped so bad that i i just like stood there for like a minute and tried to like get it out what was going through your head were you like oh no i'm about to lose this i was in survival mode like just one step in front of the other and like don't push it and hammond helped me a lot it was like he was pushing me in the finish so thankful for him this is the like easily the best performance of your career yeah i think i think it's been like a long time coming so i'm happy all the hard work's paying off well we knew that you were strong in the mountains but i'm not sure people predicted this kind of finish today i don't think i did either i was hoping top five but um there were a couple girls who went out pretty fast and i tried to just like keep keep like on their heels as much as i could and then lindsay ran away and i knew i couldn't stick with her so then i was just like okay just keep your head in the game keep going and try to like push the downhills more than i typically would yeah well you ran amazing thank you i mean obviously take a moment to enjoy this what's next asheville asheville yeah yeah so we'll see out there ladies and gents annie duby new face on the podium all right well we're here with rose wetzel third place today here in utah u.s national series rose how'd it feel oh man it felt actually really good surprisingly great until the very end when i just cramped like crazy and fell off helix and uh just ride down there for i don't know felt like forever but a few seconds and then um just uh really uh it did burpees which took forever and felt horrible but then luckily there was cold water in the dunk wall afterwards and that revived my legs a little bit but uh yeah it was fun it was great course beautiful so is it safe to say rose wetzel is back i i feel that it's safe to say yeah i actually the funny thing is it's a mountain course and a beast and um i still don't think of myself as a mountain runner and yesterday and i've been training for mountains though um with nicole miracle's coach david roche and finally yesterday as i was like in the shower shaving my legs i was like i'm a mountain runner i was like i'm a mountain runner i'm and i'm gonna own and i'm a mountain runner and today out there i was like gosh darn it i'm a mountain runner i belong out here i've been working crazy hard and um in my podium like available like in my reach i went for it then i was in second for most of the race andy did a great job of pushing me and she got me at the end when i when i got my cramp but um i just need to be continue to get more prepared for this type of elevations a little more elevation than i'm used to and what's next you're going to be in asheville we see you there you know i actually have a lot of family coming to town during national weekend and it's this little peanuts fourth birthday that weekend so um i think i'm actually gonna bow out on that one and focus on my family for a little bit get some good training in and then uh come back and hit up west virginia oh we love the west virginia course rose it's so exciting to see you back on the podium where you belong thank you very much uh it's been really great to be out here back in the community again yeah for sure congratulations thank you [Music] you

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Length: 33min 49sec (2029 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 18 2021