road running 2:00 [5]
2 hallway obstacle sprints at UCMS. 10 kids showed up for practice today, and most wanted to go outside. But the snow was blowing, temperatures were plummeting, and the roads were nasty for going anywhere. So we stayed inside.
Divided into two teams. Two maps had been cut into 20 piece puzzles. Start was a table in the atrium. The first runner on each team starts down the 7th grade hallway, dives under a table in the middle of the hallway, grabs a puzzle piece off the table then runs to the far end of the hallway. Along the way, said runner dodges around a couple big trash barrels, jumps over a couple chairs, and rolls under a bar between two chairs.
At the far end of the hallway, an uncut copy of the map is taped to the wall. Runner compares puzzle piece to the map, then runs back down the hallway gauntlet to the start, where the piece is placed in a puzzle frame on the table.
To keep things moving faster, I started the second runner on each team when the first runner reached the map. As each runner returns, the next runner on the team starts. So there were always two runners from each team racing through the hallway, while the other 3 members caught their breath and figured out how to place the puzzle pieces.
I even got to run a couple legs for one of the teams when Riley suddenly realized that her mom was waiting and she needed to go and the team was left a runner short.