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- Good morning, I'm Colonel Chris Niewind,

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United States Army.

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I'm the commander of Camp Sparta.

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Today was our inaugural
5K Sparta Challenge.

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It was an obstacle
course with 16 obstacles.

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We had about 150 participants.

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We came up with the idea
about two months ago

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because there's a handful
of us who have done

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Tough Mudder's and
Sparta races in the past

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and as our nickname is the Spartans

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we just thought it would be a great event.

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As we do 5K's and 10K's on the rock,

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we figured it'd be an
opportunity to give us

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just something a little more extra,

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little more difficult
doing a 5K obstacle course.

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(rapid electronic music)

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- [Runner] Like a mile and a half already,

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you gotta sprint up the hills,

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come down, sprint up again.

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You know, I was definitely gassed.

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I think the best part
of the whole obstacle

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was probably the wall climb,

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'cause it challenged us
to get over the wall,

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but not only that, help our
fellow battle buddies, you know?

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(laughing)

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- [Female Runner] No, I've
been over here a couple times,

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you know, never done
an obstacle course 5k,

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so I thought that was great that

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they took the time to do something unique.

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Little different than just a straight 5K.

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- I think we have an opportunity
to maybe put a mud pit in,

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something very similar to a
Tough Mudder or a Spartan race.

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But I think we will do an AR after this,

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but I think there's,
(water splashing)

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(cheering)
(clapping)

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That was awesome (laughing)!

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That was awesome.

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And we will do more of that,

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to the participants next time.

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We'll run it in the summer

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and then we can dump
ice on everybody else.

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(clunking)
(electricity snapping)