The Winter Warrior Challenge will return for its second year on Saturday, Feb. 15, and registration is open for the event’s fun and wintry competition.
Winter Warrior include four components: an obstacle course race for children, a “Winter Warrior” obstacle challenge for parents and individuals, team challenges such as a fire truck pull, and a sports festival for participants and spectators (including a kid- and family-friendly fire truck pull).
- Kids Obstacles: A fun, non-competitive course includes a rock wall, hazard walls, cargo net, agility poles, teeter plank, monkey bars, floating steps, tire run, and noodle tower.
- “Winter Warrior Challenge”: Show your grit on a cold 2.5-mile course with 10 obstacles. Look for things like sand mounds, tires, teeter-totters and monkey bars along the way. This race is reserved for participants ages 14 and older. All survivors receive an exclusive Winter Warrior Challenge finisher T-shirt.
- “Winter Warrior” Team Challenges: Teams of four from local businesses, organizations, churches and other groups will compete in events such as a fire-truck pull, dummy rescue and tire-flip relay.
- “Winter Warrior” Festival: Vendors, hot chocolate, music and heaters will be on hand for participants and spectators.
Registration for all events is open now, and discounted fees will be available through 4 p.m. Feb. 12. For complete information and registration, visit ocnj.us/race-events.
The sixth annual Ocean City Nature & The Environment Family Fun Day is set for 9:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday Feb. 15 in the cafeteria at Ocean City High School (501 Atlantic Avenue).
The event is free and provides a great chance to get the kids out to do something educational, interactive and have loads of fun on President’s Day Weekend. This year’s program will include a wide range of nature and environmentally focused, hands-on experiences for both children and adults. Last year’s event drew more than 850 parents and kids.
Some of the activities include:
- Small zoo animal interaction
- Marine life interaction
- Recycling arts and crafts
- Nature and environmental take-aways
- Food drive: Please bring non-perishable and staple foods and personal products to donate
- The importance of pollinating insects – show-and-tell
- Planting you own pollinator garden – show-and-tell and seed giveaway
- Bringing back the original jersey tomato – show-and-tell and seed giveaway
- Environmentally friendly shellfish replenishing demonstration
- Protecting the watershed and cleaning up the bay demonstration
- Trash decomposition and the environment
- The ins and outs of recycling
- How to compost
- Native plants exhibit
- Solid waste and wastewater management
- Electric vehicle charging location maps
ALSO COMING UP THIS WINTER
Market Madness on March 8 and 9 will bring together all of Ocean City’s favorite stores under one roof at the Ocean City Civic Center for two days of pre-season shopping specials.
