True Spartan

A trip to the nation's capital isn't an everyday thing. Neither is spontaneously entering a Spartan Race while in the District of Columbia, but a couple of months ago, it happened.

Denise Black of Malta found herself in that very rare instance as she was visiting her daughter Cassie Black in Maryland. The trip to D.C. was supposed to just be a "girl's trip," that included Black, her mother, daughter and her sister Kristin Collins of Sioux Falls, S.D.

"We didn't go to D.C. to specifically do the Spartan Race," Black said. "It was just like, hey, let's do it! So we did."

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