We are Sparta! (Not really....)

So somewhere along the line, Carlos came up with a cockamie idea that it would be fun to do one of the Spartan 5K races - you know, running through flames, rolling under barbed wire, the usual.  Fellow E Streeter Nick Laganas is a longtime veteran of these races.  So Carlos has set about recruiting E Streeters to join him in Amesbury come August.  So far, he's enlisted Andrew, Tommy, and today, Jon Noone.  The rest of us are too smart to say yes immediately.
So with that, we took to the woods of Billerica today for a dry run to test our mettle.  The pics pretty much speak for themselves.
First up: the pull-ups.  Unfortunately, I didn't have the camera at the ready to capture all of Barry's 20 or so pull-ups, because he did them so crazy fast.  But I did get Jon, Carlos, and Andrew.

Then the parallel bars 

The rope climb had us tied up in knots 

Carlos performed well, but didn't ring the bell up top.  Sad. 

On to the tire course.  Carlos reenacted a typical morning at Drum Hill Ford 

Herculean effort 

My son was tired, too

But it didn't stop him from hurtling one of dozens of downed trees along our path 

Barry takes a more unorthodox style to vault a tree.  Not sure, but he may have hurt himself here.

Andrew, meanwhile, always knows where the camera is. 

Finally, the monkey bars to close it out. 

I think we're ready.