Myrtle Beast Terrain Race 5K run May 21st / Beaster Easter April 16th

2904 Fantasy Way,Myrtle Beach SC 29579

21 May, 2022

Description

Myrtle Beast is about experiencing a challenging and fun terrain race with friends and family. Get your beast on! The Big Event "Myrtle Beast"- May 21st will start the Myrtle Beast terrain race at 8am with waves running every 30 minutes. Myrtle Beast with over 20 obstacles will be designed to challenge racers both physically and mentally, but it’s the smoke grenades, sounds of war and military type obstacles that will create a unique and immersive environment as we honor our veterans with Memorial Day Weekend approaching. Myrtle Beast will bring terrain racing to a whole new level by offering more challenges and competitions throughout the weekend than any other race as ever done before. "Beaster Easter Race " April 16th at10am will be a fun pre race event to celebrate Easter with a 2 mile trail run of fun exercise stations throughout the run, and Easter Eggs for racers to collect in hopes of finding special prizes these eggs might reveal. It will be a great time with our fun Easter challenges and games, playing in the bounce house, and taking pictures with the Beaster Bunny. Food and beverages will be available. Don't miss out on this awesome event. Meanwhile, the fun and excitement will continue at the rally point with a series of smaller competitions throughout the day such as the pull up competition, ammo can press, tire flips, tire drags, medicine ball distance throwing, and team tug-a-war. After purchasing your ticket, please send us an email to [email protected] with your ticket number, last name, first names, ages, genders, and shirt sizes, for each person and let us know if any of you are competing for time. We will send you a confirmation email. To speed up our check in process at the event, please click this link to our liability waiver and covid waiver, print it, sign it and bring it with you to the race. All participants must sign both waivers. For more details call (843) 209-2315 and ask for Gunny If there is severe weather that prevents the event from being held at all on Saturday, it will be moved to Sunday. If severe weather persists on Sunday, it will be moved to a later weekend date. Rain alone will not cancel the event, muddy races are more fun. All sales are final. No refunds will be given unless the race is cancelled by the event organizer. A date or venue change is not a cancellation. We look forward to giving you an awesome race experience. A special thank you to our sponsors. Jason Ellis owner of JTE Real Estate. Tim McGinnis owner of Famous Toastery. We greatly appreciate your support of our event and to our community. I was born in Myrtle Beach, SC on June 8th, 1975. I have five brothers, two of which, also served honorably in the Marine Corps. I stepped on the yellow foot prints of Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC on December 28th, 1994. After completing boot camp in March of 1995, I spent two weeks at Marine Combat Training (MCT) school, Camp Geiger, NC before beginning school for my military occupational specialty as an Engineer at Court House Bay in Camp Lejeune. Upon graduation I was assigned to 1st Combat Engineer Battalion in Camp Pendleton where I spent my first 3 years in the fleet Marine Corps. During which time I was promoted twice before being transferred to Okinawa, Japan for one year. In 1999, I was assigned to the Marine Wing Support Squadron in Miramar California where I spent two years before requesting assignment to 2d Maintenance Battalion in Camp Lejeune. I have served 3 combat tours in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. As the Company Gunnery Sergeant for Head Quarters Service Company, 2d Maintenance Battalion. I planned, coordinated and supervised the activities of over 300 Marines while closing down Al Taqqadum air base Iraq in 2009. While serving as the Platoon Commander for the 2d Supply Battalion Forward, Dwyer Detachment in Afghanistan in 2012, I was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for successfully organizing 54 maintenance support teams and dispatching them to Forward Operating bases, Payne,Marjah, Geronimo, and Taghaz to provide maintenance support for 10 other units positioned in hostile combat environments. I served as a Drill Instructor at Parris Island, SC from 2005-2008. During which time I trained and transformed over 450 men into United States Marines. As a senior enlisted Marine, I volunteered to take charge of the Marine Corps Body Composition program so that I could provide a proper exercise regimen for Marines who became overweight and did not meet the height and weight standards. I helped over 100 Marines on the program successfully get their weight within standards, in doing so saving them from what would inevitably end their careers in an other than honorable discharge. I officially retired from the Marine Corps on July 1st, 2015 and moved back to my hometown Myrtle Beach. I now own a successful fitness boot camp and an obstacle course training facility. I have brought members of the community together to participate in fun bootcamp tournaments in effort to raise donations for wounded veterans and to remind people that many of our heroes still suffer and hurt from the traumatic effects of battle related injuries. As a Marine of 20 years, being part of an organization where physical fitness is just as important as your technical skills to be successful and competitive for promotion, fitness has not only become a part of my life but it is a way of life for me. Physical training was my favorite part of the day when I was in the Corps and it still is. I found great happiness in helping my fellow Marines regain their motivation, sense of achievement, and drive to live a healthy life style. Now as a gym owner and personal trainer their is no bigger reward than the thanks I get from the people I've helped reach their fitness goals. I love motivating people and getting them excited about fitness. Hosting boot camp tournaments is a great way to get people excited about fitness. The competitions are an opportunity for people who train everyday to put their hard work to the test and have fun with it. Physical competition gives people a reason to push themselves harder as they train and prepare themselves for the grueling activities they will endure. Throughout my tenure in the Marine Corps I've planned and coordinated many fitness events in which company's competed against each other for bragging rights and trophies. The excitement and fun of these events were a great way to boost morale and build camaraderie within the units. I've had friends and fellow Marines severely wounded and killed in action. I've seen how the trauma they've endured has adversely effected their lives and the lives of their family and friends. As a retired Marine I want to continue to serve my fellow service members. Our country owes them a great deal for their sacrifice. Through these events I want to honor them and help raise donations so that they may get the best care money can buy and provide for them the quality of life they deserve. www.gunnysbootcamp.com