Campus Health and Recreation, with marketing support from the Student Activities Board, will be presenting the first annual Charger Dash at 11 a.m. Saturday at Hayden Park.
The dash will be a hybrid of a tough mudder, a warrior dash, and a 5K, according to Director of Student Activities Anthony Manno.
“We want to push students to have not just an easy 5K jog, but we want to have them challenge themselves physically and mentally,” Men’s Director of Residence Life and Campus Health and Recreation junior Jeff Myers said.
In previous years, the spring event was a triathlon, but SAB and Campus Health and Recreation found they were getting low participation due to disinterest in the swimming portion of the event. They hope to install the Charger Dash as the new annual spring event.
There will be 10 obstacles throughout the course, which will be approximately the length of a 5K. While the planning committee wants to keep most of the obstacles a surprise, they did reveal that participants will have to scale an eight-foot wall.
“It’s not an easy walk in the park,” Myers said.
There will be enough space under the wall for participants to crawl under, Manno assured.
“On the same token, anyone can do it,” Manno said. “Every obstacle you can scale to suit your needs.”
Women’s Director of Residence Life and Campus Health and Recreation junior Rachael Hille said she was impressed with the rapid sign-ups for the event considering the intentional ambiguity in advertising.
The first 100 people to sign up will receive a free shirt, and participants can sign up by emailing Hille or visiting the table at lunch today or tomorrow.
