Spartan Santa Susanna, live.

Mountain, town and beach in one weekend

Three obstacle races on the Maresme coast north of Barcelona, laid out so that one person can run all three in two days.

Spartan Santa Susanna is held on 17 and 18 October 2026 from Parc del Colomer in Santa Susanna, which the organiser puts about fifty minutes’ drive from the centre of Barcelona. It is the event’s second edition. The organiser describes a course that combines mountain, town and beach — the hills behind the coast, the streets of the town and the Mediterranean shore in one line.

There are three adult distances. The Beast is 21 km with 30 obstacles and is run on Saturday. The Super is 10 km with 25 obstacles on Sunday. The Sprint is 5 km with 20 obstacles and is run on both days. Because the Beast and the Super fall on different days and the Sprint is on both, the Trifecta — Sprint, Super and Beast — can be completed in a single weekend. A kids’ race of 1 to 3 km with obstacles is held on Saturday.

Distance is a poor clock in an obstacle race: the organiser gives the Sprint’s average duration as 1 h 32 min for five kilometres. That is why a position on the course says more than a time. A runner who carries a phone can share a link to their own Livebib broadcast; family and friends open it in a browser, with no account and no app, and see where on the course line the runner is, how far they have come and a finish estimate that updates as the race goes. Anything estimated is marked as estimated, and when the signal drops in the hills the position is carried forward along the course instead of freezing. The runner decides who gets the link.