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The journey of Frank to the OCR World Championships
108 Jozo Weider Boulevard, The Blue Mountains, Ontario, Canada
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About the event
OCR World Championships 2016
The OCR World Championships is the first truly independent global championship for the burgeoning sport of Obstacle Course Racing. It is a singular event created to unify, promote, and increase participation in the sport of OCR while celebrating its amazing athletes and community.
In October i go for 11 days to Canada to prepare and challenge the OCR World championships. Since februari this year i focus on the sport obstacle race and in just a few months training i became top 20 at the OCR Europe Championships in my home country The Netherlands.
I want to become the new World Champion OCR 2016
I will share different kind of things wich could be interesting for obstacle run athletes or sport minded company's who want me to promote your products:
- Trainings gear wich you can use for your training.
- Advice for your obstacle run training.
- Advice for your obstacle runs.
- Advice for obstacles, techniqs wich will help you to conquer obstacles.
- Advice for obstacle run events.
- Write blogs about different kind of subjects related to obstacle running.
Follow my journey to Canada.
Location
108 Jozo Weider Boulevard, The Blue Mountains, Ontario, Canada
Organiser
Frank van Lieshout
Groningen, Netherlands
Frank has always been a person with passion for the outdoor lifestyle. Since he was a little boy his parents took him to the mountains for hiking. He always wanted to become an adventurer, spend time in the mountains and share this passion with other people, which is why he chose to study outdoor & adventures in his home country of the Netherlands. He then spent a few years on professionalizing himself in the outdoor & adventure business and learning survival and hiking skills in the mountains of Pyrenees, Scotland and several other places in Europe.
After finishing this study he decided to become a qualified teacher in sports, because working with kids and young adults is also something that is a passion of him. He would like to create events and natural play sites to motivate children and young adults to spend more time in nature, as he did with his parents.
Since begin of 2016 he started his own outdoor organization Vanlieshoutdoor, where he wants to organize events and projects to share his passion for outdoor & adventure with other people in the near future.
Next to his passion for
outdoor he decided to start his career as athlete. Before 2016, Frank never did
sports as a goal to become the fastest or strongest in a kind of sport – he
simply did sports for fun – but after probably the worst moment of Frank’s
outdoor career, his mindset changed towards sports. After this moment he decided
to search for challenges, the first challenge being obstacle running. He
qualified for the European championships in the Netherlands and later in the
year also for the world championships in Canada. You can read his article how
he made it out in the world championships!
In the summer of 2016, Frank
was in Scotland with the one-legged Etchrock Elite Michael Robbert Brans to
climb the country’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis. Supporting Michael on his way
to the top was Frank’s first project with Vanlieshoutdoor. During this
challenge he met Stuart and Jason (owners of Etchrock), who also came over to
support Michael. They said to Frank: “You came here to support Michael, but
when will be your challenge?”
During this weekend they told him about the Bob Graham round in the Lake District, which is a mountain run of more than 60 miles and 42 peaks within a period of 24 hours. When they told Frank about this, he had the whole thing scheduled and planned out within 30 minutes. They were like: “this guy is from another level”. A few weeks later Frank did his first attempt of the Bob Graham round for which Stuart came over to support him. Unfortunately, he didn’t finish the challenge, but you can read more about this in his article. In 2017 he will come back again to smash the Bob Graham round. Here in the lakes district Stuart asked Frank to become one of Etchrock’s Elite athletes.