No obstacle was too great to help mentoring

Posted 1/5/16

Even during an unusually warm start to winter, what’s more challenging than to run into the chilly waters of Greenwich Bay on the first day of the New Year?

The answer for more than 100 plungers …

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No obstacle was too great to help mentoring

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Even during an unusually warm start to winter, what’s more challenging than to run into the chilly waters of Greenwich Bay on the first day of the New Year?

The answer for more than 100 plungers was to run an obstacle course and as a finale, jump into the bay. The occasion was the fifth annual Frozen Clam Dip to benefit the Rhode Island Mentoring Partnership held at Goddard Park. Only this year the event, co-hosted by Laidback Fitness, introduced the obstaplunge, a high intensity course that sent the plungers running down the beach, up a hill and then through a series of obstacles, including teeter-totter sections of black plastic pipes that competitors had to crawl through. Ryan McGowan from Laid-back Fitness designed the course and most obstacles, while Lynn Hall from BoldRDash debuted the tunnel obstacle at the event.

While there was no official winner, the first runner to complete the obstacle course and then dive into the water served as the signal for another 100 or so people huddled on the beach and ready to make the dip to help mentoring. They stampeded into the water with shrieks and yells, cheered on by an even bigger crowd of family and friends who lined the beach seawall.

Hall promised that this year’s obstaplunge was just a beginning and that next New Year’s Day the field would more than double.

That was music to Jo-Ann Schofield, president and CEO of the mentoring partnership. She estimated the net proceeds to the non-profit that helps run, train and coordinate about 5,000 mentorships statewide at $10,000.

 

 

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