LASD Lancaster Station Deputies and Station Personnel to take the 2011 Street Warrior Challenge
The Street Warrior Challenge event was designed last year to motivate members of the Lancaster Station into some serious training and to challenge their bodies beyond what they normally do. With that said, we have good news and bad news regarding the upcoming 2011 Street Warrior Challenge. The good news is that Lancaster station personnel (prompted by Deputy Mitch Speed and Deputy Dan Gore) were inspired by the Cops 4 Causes Fallen Heroes Initiative and wanted to do something special to honor Dave March and his family. The bad news is that their inspiration will cause many of their partners physical pain! Therefore, the bad news is that the LASD Lancaster Deputies and Station personnel are going to have to push their bodies a little harder in this year’s challenge.
Captain Bob Jonsen stated that based on a great suggestion, the decision was made that this year’s challenge would involve running a whole marathon (26.2 miles) on November 6th, competing in a bench press event (pressing a % of your body weight the following week), and finishing a week later with a pull-up event. He stated that he knew this change would have a lot of his personnel saying, “I can’t do a full marathon!” Yet, he stated a wise person once told him, “It’s not that you can’t do it, it’s that you choose not to do it!” Therefore, he stated, "Let’s all CHOOSE to participate together in honor of a worthy cause."
To help support our cause, each Lancaster Deputy and Station participant will be obtaining sponsors and asking their friends, family, associates, to sponsor them $1.00 for each mile of the marathon. All of the money Lancaster Deputies and Station personnel independently collect will be donated to the Cops 4 Causes/ LASD Fallen Heroes Initiative.
Cops 4 Causes would like to thank Captain Jonsen, Deputy Speed, Deputy Gore and all of the members of the Lancaster Station for their support!
