Steamboat Springs — At some point, Steamboat Springs resident Heather Gollnick started to resemble a crazy person. Between spear throwing in the driveway, carrying bags of sand up and down the stairs and hauling buckets of rock up the mountain, itap easy to see why her neighbors might have been concerned.
Fear not, as these peculiar activities are training for Gollnick’s new passion — obstacle course racing.
“I wish I would have done one a lot sooner, because I’m totally hooked,” Gollnick said. “Every race has been so different. So yes, it can make it mentally hard, but it also makes it exciting, because you don’t know what is coming, and you don’t know if you are going to be really bad at it or really good at it.”
Gollnick, 46, is a longtime triathlete. She is a five-time Ironman champion and runs her IronEdge coaching and triathlon team out of Steamboat. However, late last year, her athletic career took a sudden shift when she was invited to be part of a new reality television show revolving around a sport she knew nothing about.
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