OCR shoes, apparel, grip aids, hydration packs — honest reviews
For races longer than 10K, hydration becomes a race-day variable that can make or break your performance. Aid stations are usually too far apart to keep you fueled and hydrated through a long obstacle course, …
Your shoes are the most important piece of gear you’ll bring to a Spartan, Tough Mudder, or Savage Race. Get it right and you’re climbing walls and sprinting through mud with confidence. Get it wrong …
Your phone stays in the car on race day. You’re crawling under barbed wire, plunging into ice baths, and hauling sandbags across a mountain. What you need on your wrist is a GPS watch that …
If you have spent any time slogging through a Spartan Beast or a Tough Mudder, you know the problem: halfway through a hot, muddy race, you are dehydrated, your hands are caked in dirt, and …
If you’ve spent any time browsing fitness gear online, you’ve seen the dizzying array of grip strength products on the market — hand grippers, fat grips, wrist rollers, rice buckets, grip balls, forearm blasters, and …
Your Shoes Are Your Most Important Gear Decision In OCR, your shoes take more abuse in a single race than most trail runners experience in a month. They’ll be submerged in water, caked in mud, …
When your race stretches past 10K, water stations aren’t enough. Whether you’re grinding through a Spartan Super, tackling a Tough Mudder, or racing an ultra-OCR, carrying your own hydration can mean the difference between a …
Your feet carry you through every obstacle, every mile, every muddy climb. Get them wrong, and you’re fighting your shoes instead of your fitness. Get them right, and you feel like you’re flying—even when you’re …
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Wall & Wire may earn a commission from links in this article. This doesn’t affect our editorial independence — we only recommend gear we’d actually race in. Walk through any OCR starting corral and you’ll …
Wall & Wire may earn a commission from links in this article. This doesn’t affect our editorial independence — we only recommend gear we’d actually race in. For Sprint-distance races, you can get away with …
Wall & Wire may earn a commission from links in this article. This doesn’t affect our editorial independence — we only recommend gear we’d actually race in. The grip glove debate in OCR is almost …