On her home turf, two-time CrossFit Games champion Katrin Davidsdottir competed with her mother and placed third in the Reebok Spartan Race sprint course in Reykjavik, Iceland with a final time of 1:48:04.
Davidsdottir waited to leave the finish line to support her mother.
The Sprint is one of the most challenging courses, featuring close to 25 obstacles across five miles of rough terrain. The elements of the region itself provided an extra challenge for the athletes. The entire race for Davidsdottir was completed in frigid temperatures, was pitch black and consisted of multiple levels of elevation, testing the endurance of the athletes. Davidsdottir spoke of an icy mountain she had to scale and slide down the other side. The course also had ice glaciers, geysers and even active volcanos.
Davidsdottir isn’t the only CrossFit Games athlete who has stepped out of competing in CrossFit to test their fitness in different environments. Sam Dancer and his wife Jen competed in multiple different Tough Mudder’s in the past few months. Spartan Race even poses a question in their post, asking if any other elite level athletes will join Davidsdottir and cross over to take on their first Spartan? Maybe Davidsdottir will start a trend.