looking for competition built for me

As some of you know I'm a former Marathon runner and obviously I lift or I wouldn't be here. I'm closing in on a new personal best bench max because it's something I haven't done for years and in discussing it with friends someone brought up a great race they've heard of. The race is held somewhere in the Tri-State area(NY,NJ,CT) and is a combination bench press competition and Marathon. Before the race you bench either your max or a percentage of your weight for reps and then they deduct the bench results from your marathon time. For instance if you bench for reps they would deduct 30 - 60 second off of your time for each rep you do. Here's the catch none of my friends seem to know where these races are held or the name of them. It seems like it would be an awesome race for me if I can get back into decent running shape and still mantain the stength I've currently building upon I would do really well because most runners have zero upper body strength.

Anyone hear about a race like this please let me know!

my brother is sheriff. I guess thats a common test to get into there swat team

but sorry, i dont know of a race by you, maybe you can go to the dark side??? lol

Sorry Mike can't help you out. That race is news to me. Good luck and keep us posted sounds like your on track to break some records..

normalsucks said:

my brother is sheriff. I guess thats a common test to get into there swat team

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you have to run a marathon to get onto the SWAT team??? geez.

but they have an endurance test in order to make it into the swat team. Bench pressing gives you a certain amount of points. If you bench your body weight, you pass... if you bench you body weight 5 times, I think you get 5 points.... something like that anyway.

Its funny... my brother is a cop.

apparently there is more than one race like this and even 5K's but I can't seem to find one around me. I'd be willing to travel but the only race I found was a 5K in Cincinnati.

if you find one near here, you have a place to stay.

If they threw in "ice cream eating" I'd be down for competing. That is the first I
have heard of that kind of comp.

I've done a little more searching and I've only came up with it being referred to as "Pump and Run" by a few races, mostly short distance 5K's which would still be great. Now if only I could find one around me, I'd train and be in it for sure.