Hobie Call

Holbrook "Hobie" Call (born 1977) is an American former competitive runner and elite obstacle course racer.^[1] Call is a multiple-time winner of the Spartan Race, an obstacle race with challenges similar to those found in the television program American Gladiators.^[2]

A native of Utah, he is the father of five children.^[3]

Call won the Scramble Gamble at the Superhero Scramble race in Miami, FL on March 12, 2012. He finished first with a time of 33:29 and won a cash purse of $2,000. Call also ran in and won the Scramble Gamble race in Waldo, FL on July 28, 2012, with a finishing time of 27:05.^[4] Since, Call has won many Superhero Scrambles.

Call took the first win of the Spartan Race season in Southern California. He finished the 8 mile course in under an hour.^[5]

He was 2nd place male at the 2012 Spartan Race Championships at Killington, VT^[6] and the first place male competitor at the 2013 Spartan Race Championship at Killington, VT.^[7]

Call also participated in Episode 44,^[8] 47,^[9] and 50^[10] of the OCR Warrior TV Show.

Call announced his retirement from competitive obstacle course racing in 2015, but joined the Spartan Race Pro-Team for 2017. During the announcement, he stated it would be his last year of competitive racing.^[11][12]

In 2012, Hall publicly claimed that he would be able to run a sub-2:00 marathon (which would be a world record), despite a personal best of only 2:16 on a net downhill course.^[13] His responses to follow-up interviews, who cited his lack of elite road performances and the difficulty of breaking a world record, were described as "defensive" and "borderline neurotic".^[14] As of 2024, Call has never improved on his previous best of 2:16.