How to pronounce “spartan” in English

The Spartans-- you know, this is Sparta.

The Spartans said, that's fine.

It's like the Spartan Race, Tough Mudder, those kind of things.

The guy that started Spartan Race-- name is Joe De Sena-- he was there in Tahoe, and he saw me finish.

And you started Spartan Races.

I did my first Spartan Beast in 2013, Sacramento.

He says to the Spartans, were being invaded by the Persians.

This guy sounds very Spartans to me, I can go with that.

So we started spartanuppodcast.com, I believe, is our URL.

He wasn't either a Spartan or an Athenian.

Could you sort of get into the "Spartan Up" podcast that's going to be launched next month?

And we've got our own little Spartan Googler course set up.

Herodotus was traveling around and talking to Spartans, talking to Athenians.

So who in the room has done a Spartan Race or Trifecta?

And so you wrote a very interesting book called "Spartan Up!"

And I know you're focusing on the Spartan Race and building out.

Spartan changed my life.

was a place in ancient Sparta in Greece where-- The Spartans were known for their very fascistic

So I just want to know how long it took to do the Spartan Race?

Coming up, I am doing a 24-hour Spartan Race in Iceland.

prol this is in the Mojave Desert June 21 2004 alone in a Spartan black cockpit

75 guys I didn't know and we slept in these very Spartan cabins no phones TV

I've got to tell my Athenian mates that are waiting at Marathon that the Spartans are on the way.

For me, the obstacles in the Spartans were always kind of the fun part.

You, like me, fellow Michigan State Spartan.

And then, one day, I see this race called "Spartan Race." Who has heard of the Spartan Race before?

And he created these big outdoor obstacle courses, the kinds of things you see now with Spartan races.

When I was really training for my events-- and some of the elites that train for Spartan Race will train no less than three and a half, four hours a day.

So you think about curd-shilling, are you think about the ancient Spartans who, you know, like 300 of them stand against the invading army of Persians and you think, wow, human beings are

So that gym back in Dagestan where you trained is legendary for its spartan conditions.

sandbag carry-- you had all these obstacles, these crazy obstacles, and that's called a "Spartan Race."

OK, now, after going to that rant for a bit, I want to show you guys a Spartan Race.

Who's ready to go do a Spartan Race now?

They do kid Spartan Racing, so you can go do Spartan Races.

Well, it's pretty cool coming up-- yeah, we've got a Spartan in the back.

And then I roped her into a few races, the Spartan or the Tough Mudder mud runs.

My early drafts are like 15% to 20% shorter than my finished drafts because they're very Spartan.

I then went on to another school, a secondary school, which was rather more spartan in some ways.

Like the Spartans or the Comanches, they seem to have

The two main arguments that people use in support of them are simply, well, we are honoring Native people, like cool, kick-butt Spartans, Trojans,

I don't know if anyone has toured a car factory recently? if you go do the BMW tour either at Munich or Spartanburg, or Leipzig you see all these robots which in German they say,