To Joe De Sena’s credit, he never seemed out of breath, despite conducting a recent, 20-minute phone interview while climbing flights of stairs. “I’ve got a little routine,” explained the 47-year-old ...

Inspired by brutal 7th century training tactics of their namesake, Spartan, the organizer of some of the world’s toughest obstacle course races, has introduced the Agoge event. The race, which takes ...

Teddy Rojas and his girlfriend Sarah Ingraham didn’t expect the Spartan AGOGE 002 event to be easy. And it certainly wasn’t. The pair recently returned from their first grueling AGOGE series endurance ...

Spartan Agoge competitors in June in Pittsfield, Vermont. Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe Get the best of the magazine’s award-winning stories and features right in your e-mail inbox every Sunday.

Obstacle course racing (OCR) has boomed in recent years and every event will lay claim to being the biggest, the baddest and the best. From the original Tough Guy race, designed to be so hard few ...