A real-life Walter Mitty who launched a worldwide endurance race on his reputation as a former Royal Marine has resigned from his job as UK director of the company - after it emerged he was never in the military. Richard Lee, 31, boasted of serving with the Royal Marines mountain troop as he built the Spartan Race series into a multi-million international business. In one interview he said: 'The Death Race was very tough but if you have done a couple of years of training similar to the Marines, you will be surprised by what you can actually do.' Scroll down for video
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Richard Lee, 31, launched worldwide race on back of claims he served in RM mountain troop
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He built Spartan Race series into multi-million pound international series
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Lee enrolled in Officer Training Corps but never qualified as he dropped out due to knee injury
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