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Atkins is competing
to win $1 million
from Spartan.

ONE- yan Atkins told his 40,000-plus Instagram followers that
he didn’t have expectations going into September’s Spartan

World Championships in Lake Tahoe, so his second-place
finish was a nice touch to an already visually breathtaking
ON-ONE R experience. One of the best in obstacle course racing (OCR),

Atkins spoke with Muscle & Fitness prior to his runner-up finish.
WITH How did you get into So this is your full-time gig?

Yeah. Before this, I went to
obstacle course racing?
RYAN Growing up I played football, school and worked as a
rugby, I was a wrestler, and
mechanical engineer for a
few years. I started to do more
then I was a professional
ATKINS mountain bike racer. I just and more obstacle course
racing. Then I did my first
kind of segued into running
Spartan Race in 2014, and it
and found OCR. I love the
combination of strength and took off from there.
The OCT superstar endurance required, and then

talks training, there are just so many differ- Your wife, Lindsey Weber, is

visualization, and ent challenges coming at you also a professional OCR racer C O U RT E S Y O F S PA RTA N
how his wife that you really have to be and took second at the world
this ultimate hybrid athlete
championships. How did you
motivates him. in order to do well. guys meet?

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