Brittany Harrell-Miller

Brittany Harrell-Miller, an algebra teacher at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School, has been named the runner-up of the NBC reality show “Strong.”

The competition, which began with 10 teams of a woman and a professional trainer partner completing strength and conditioning challenges, has been whittled down each week since the first episode in April. On Thursday, the finale of the show revealed that Harrell-Miller lost the final round of the competition.

“This is like the championship game,” Harrell-Miller told the Journal-World this week. “I think this is what you prepare for the entire time. I’m lucky to be playing in the championship game no matter what happens or what the outcome is.”

Harrell-Miller, who grew up on a farm south of Lawrence, traveled to San Diego to watch the finale with her teammate, Todd Durkin. The winning competitors were awarded a prize of $300,000, the amount they had earned throughout various challenges of the competition.

Filming for the show was completed in the fall, but Harrell-Miller was unable to reveal the outcome of each episode before it aired, even to members of her family.

In the final episode, Harrell-Miller and Durkin — the “yellow” team — lost the first challenge, finishing an obstacle course in 2 minutes, 55 seconds. The opposing “blue” team completed the course in 2 minutes, 42 seconds.

The yellow team won the prelude to the second challenge, a tug-of-war. The second challenge was a race to move 20-pound kettle bells to the other team’s side the fastest; the yellow team won.

The third competition of the finale was a tower of strength challenges. The yellow team completed the tower in 3 minutes, 42 seconds; the blue team finished in 3 minutes, 29 seconds, to win the competition.