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Orange, Massachusetts YMCA Reopens With a New 10-Zone Room and a DEKA Strong Event
A Small-Town Y Builds a Room Around a Race Format Liz Day remembers how the first one felt. When she looks back on the July…
Read MoreDenver-Born DEKA Wants 3,000 Gyms Hosting Races and Says Most Affiliates Earn $5,000 to $20,000
DEKA began as a 2019 test inside a rented, abandoned Kmart in downtown Denver, and its founders now want 3,000 gyms hosting 10,000 events a…
Read MoreWhy Women Now Fill More Than Half of DEKA’s Arena Race Entries
Ten Zones, Many Starting Points Eileen Percival goes by “Percy No Mercy” on the DEKA circuit. She serves as a US Air Force officer, makes…
Read MoreAtlanta Racers Get a DEKA FIT Weekend at Georgia World Congress Center in November
Ten Zones, Five Kilometers and an Average Finish Near 50 Minutes Atlanta athletes who watched DEKA events pass through Fort Lauderdale, Chicago and Boston this…
Read MoreSandy Cronin, 79, Lined Up for DEKA in Fort Lauderdale Beside 12-Year-Olds
Fort Lauderdale’s DEKA FIT event at the Broward County Convention Center drew 1,477 competitors, with ages running from 12 to 79. Fifty-eight percent of the…
Read MoreChicago’s Navy Pier Draws a World Record and a Wave of First-Time Racers
More than 2,200 athletes from 274 gyms raced DEKA FIT at Chicago’s Navy Pier this summer, and almost three in four had never done a…
Read MoreWhy DEKA’s Sunday Deadline Gives Everyday Racers a Shot at a World Championship
Sunday, September 27 is the last day to post a DEKA FIT time that counts toward an invitation to the 2026 DEKA World Championships in…
Read MoreConnecticut Couple Turned Garage Workouts Into a DEKA Podium Gym
Kevin and Jess Gregory started coaching clients out of their garage in Wallingford, Connecticut, when pandemic closures shut down the big-box gym where they worked,…
Read MoreHow a Small Texas Gym Is Taking On the World in DEKA’s New Global Challenge
Vickery’s Sweat Shop, a small gym in Livingston, Texas, will send its members up against gyms from a dozen countries this October, when DEKA runs…
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