Pentathalon

[tigerman0828]

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[rbejnood]

i jumped a rope in state and dribbled a ball through some cones in regionals

[tigerman0828]

jumping is fun

[croman74]

Our regional team activity was building a puzzle. The pieces were really big.

[tigerman0828]

wow

[EastStroudsburg13]

Building a puzzle? That's not even a physical activity...

[croman74]

Well it was kinda, because we had to move our hands and push the pieces down.

[EastStroudsburg13]

That's a pretty bad attempt at integrating more physical activity though. Isn't that the (bad) point of Pentathlon being an event in the first place?

[fli754]

I competed in the Pentathlon at states and it wasn't so bad.

Our individual physical activities were:

Running a certain distance, skipping a certain distance, and jumping past a line. Every 10th of a second would get chopped off our total time for every 10 cm jumped past the line.

Throwing a frisbee at an object and knocking it over. Apparently our teammate failed at throwing frisbees

Passing an obstacle course, which was dribbling a basket ball 10 times, jumping rope 22 times, crawling under two chairs with a stick inbetween, and running between cones.

Shooting a soccer ball through two cones with a whiffleball bat.

Then our academic activities were:

Placing three magnets on a pole and have none of them touch each other, so it was really just getting two of the same polarities facing each other.

Arranging astronomical objects in size from smallest to greatest.

Identifying what rock is sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic.

Matching up elements with their respective forms; solid, liquid, gas.

Then our final task was to place seed bags in pots with a name on it, VEGETABLE, FLOWER, or PLANT. It was really a matter of speed and knowing what choices you have left. Our team got 9th, so we were still happy.

[croman74]

The frisbee throwing sounds kinda hard.