The Few, The Proud...
The Carolina Marines
Challenges & Obstacles
Listed below are the challenges and obstacles you can expect to encounter on our course. We've provided links to video demonstrations of as many of them as we can - just click on the challenge listed for more info. Be prepared or be slow and get yelled at! Be advised that these obstacles and challenges may change in order of severity depending on how many Marines we have on the course. The more Marines we have, the tougher it will be on you.
1.10 push-ups - just kidding, try this page. (We'll try to have some rave music going while doing these push-ups
3.Start race
4.10 yard duck walk (you can have your fingers behind your head for this exercise)
6.10 side straddle hops (most people call them jumping jacks, but this is our event and we'll call them this)
7.10 yard duck walk
8. team tarp tube crawl (our tube should be wide enough for all of your team to go through at the same time)
9.10 yard fireman carry (basically - carry your team mate from here to there any way you want - just don't drop or hurt them along the way)
12.10 leg lifts
13.Trip wires
15.10 flutter kicks aka scissor kicks
16.25 yard duck walk
17.25 lunges
18.rope obstacles (low crawling under ropes between trees)
19.Decline wall (wall that is declining towards you, about 5 feet tall, using upper body strength - get over it)
20.A-frame wall (7ft tall wall that you climb over)
21.Over-under logs (logs that you will be going over and under - pretty obvious huh?!)
22.1st sand bag carry
23.A-frame in the pit
24.Low crawl
25.Incline wall
26.10 push-ups
27.Low crawl
Our Mud Pit
28.Duck walk out of the pit
29.2nd sand bag carry
30.10 side straddle hops
31.10 yard frog hop
32.25 yard trash sack race (each member of the team must have one leg in the team trash bag for this race)
33.25 yard wheel barrel race (team members will switch places mid-way, you don't have to do it the way they did in the video though
34.Finish - arm in arm, hand in hand, carrying each other, whatever - just make sure you and your team are connected as you cross the finish line
Camp Pendleton's World Famous Mud Run - great overview of what our run looks like except their's has a lot more land, mud pits, creeks, etc. We do what we can and you'll have a blast!
