Photo By Tech. Sgt. Clayton Lenhardt | Members of the 39th Logistics Readiness Squadron Petroleum, Oil and Lubricant Flight...... read more read more
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ADANA, Turkey - Members of the 39th Logistics Readiness Squadron recently completed a challenge called LRS Divided, which put the petroleum, oils and lubricant flight against the rest of LRS to see who could run or walk the most miles in 30 days. At stake were bragging rights and a trophy presented at the March squadron commander's call.
The challenge came about when LRS began small competitions throughout the squadron, using their rivalry to motivate each other to improve their fitness.
On Feb. 6, the POL members of an LRS running group officially challenged the rest of the squadron. Thirty days and 2,803 miles later, and with the differences in distance as little as 20 miles at times, the POL team flew past the rest of the squadron by more than 400 miles.
"POL knows that they [had] people who run like 20 miles a day against people who only do like three miles a day, so we had to go recruit some outside players to participate," said Tech. Sgt. Curtricia Alexander, non-commissioned officer in charge of readiness.
As a joke, Alexander sent an e-mail to the rest of the squadron for people to help compete against the POL flight. Before she knew it the joke caught on, and 47 people signed up for the challenge.
The goal of the challenge was "just to get people motivated to go out and run. I hate running but [I went] out to run because [I didn't want] to let POL beat us," Alexander said. "We got people who wouldn't run a mile a week running like five a day just trying to keep us in the competition."
"I've seen a lot of people go from very little running to more running. I can see that it will help everybody and it's just going to catch on," agreed Master Sgt. Beau Parker, fuels operations section chief. The squadron is doing this "primarily for physical fitness and bringing the squadron together."
It's just going to overall help the whole squadron," he said.
It might be too soon to tell, but Parker imagines this might have a positive effect on airmen's physical fitness assessment results.
| Date Taken: | 03.07.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 05.10.2012 02:32 |
| Story ID: | 88195 |
| Location: | ADANA, TR |
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