Keeping Up with Keeping Fit

A group of people has been getting together in Peachtree Corners every Sunday since early 2017 to keep fit and prepare for challenging races. “We primarily focus on training for Spartan Races, which are obstacle course races of varying lengths — 5 to 14 miles with 20-35 obstacles,” said group member Alex Wright (pictured right), who is also a Peachtree Corners Councilman. “The workouts vary each time but generally last about an hour.”

Wright explained that many of the members also meet up 5:30 a.m. Monday through Friday for workouts. Most of them were taking CrossFit classes at the YMCA every day until the pandemic hit In March; then they started meeting at Town Green each morning. “The Y is not offering classes at this point, so having the Town Green and the fitness trail has been a lifesaver for a lot of us,” he added.

When the group came up with the idea of the fitness trail — which they nicknamed The Path of Pain — “a lot of the obstacles we picked were specifically meant to mimic some of the obstacles you’d see in a Spartan Race,” Wright said, “such as the rope climb, rope traverse, bar traverse, wall-climb and elevating monkey bars.”

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While the magazine staged this issue’s cover shoot at the Town Center’s fitness trail, we also found a fitness group (highlighted above) and two moms, Anne Aguiari and Rachel Lindenau, and their kids enjoying the rope climbing and other stations along the trail.