The SWAT Fitness Challenge

All the participants from the 5th Annual SWAT Fitness Challenge before the agony began.

Today I, along with three other member of my SWAT team, competed in the SWAT Fitness Challenge in San Leandro.  The following are the events we competed in:

Event 1:
In teams of 4, and with only one member working at a time, complete the following:
- 200 Hand Release Push Ups
- 200 Sit Ups
- 200 Box Jumps (About 20")
Then
- 2 Members flip a tire 25 ft
- 2 Members flip the tire back 25 ft

We did poorly in this event, though I would point out that we had the most strict judge of all the teams and we were getting "no repped" like crazy!

Event 2:
For 10:00 walk as many lengths of 120 feet as possible carrying 185 pounds barbell (including 2 buckets full of sand) and one of your team members.  If you put the weight or the team member down at any point the workout was over and your distance what whatever it was when you set it down.  We were able to go the entire 10:00 without stopping while covering 25 lengths of 120 feet (3000 feet), which was the winning distance for this event.

Event 3:
Hike 2.5 miles carrying an 8 foot wooden post and two cinder blocks among the team members.  We slip the block on the post and two members carried it while the other two hiked without weight, and we switched as necessary.

Event 4:
In an aluminum fishing boat row 1.5 miles, which was out and round an island.  The boat only had two oars so we had to rotate rowers.  Our actual distance was a lot longer than 1.5 miles, however, becasue rowing straight is not easy.

Event 5:
We had to complete a 7.5 mile trail run to get back to the event start location.  We sustained an injury to one of our members along the way, so what started as a trail run ended up as a trail walk.

Event 6:
All team members had to shoot 20 rounds at the 15 yard line and 10 rounds at the 25 yard line, where you were docked points for any and all rounds outside of the bullseye.  This was tough to do at this point due to fatigue and exhaustion from the previous 5 events.

Overall my team was working through these events for around 5 hours including transition times.  It was a tough but fun day.  We ended up taking 13th place out of 23 teams.