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  • The obstacle-race industry is "one of the fastest-growing things that the running industry has seen for some time," says Mark Sullivan, editor of Running Insight, a trade magazine.

    Grueling Race Puts Up Obstacles, Especially for One Man Reed Albergotti 2011

  • But the one that attracted my attention the most was a photograph of an obstacle-race, in which the runners had to mount and climb over a wagon placed obtrusively sideways across the course on purpose to baffle them.

    Recalled to Life Grant Allen 1873

  • He would enter into the joys of the annual Sunday-school picnic with a zest equal to the children’s own, leading the way, in shirt-sleeves, at leap-frog and obstacle-race.

    Australia Felix 2003

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