Local lifeguards take third straight Battle for the Beach win

By Observer Staff
| 9:43 a.m. May 21, 2013

Ormond Beach Observer
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A team of six local lifeguards topped beach patrollers from across the state last weekend, taking home their third straight win at the Battle for the Beach competition.

BY TIM FENNEL | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Six Ormond Beach locals competed Sunday, May 19, in Jacksonville's Battle for the Beach, an annual endurance challenge.

This is the third straight competition the local team, comprised of part- and full-time Volusia County Beach Patrol Lifeguards, has won. They bested 43 other competitors in 40 minutes.

Each team of six, completed in a half-mile swim, 50-yard military crawl, 1,000 push-ups, 1,000 sit-ups, 500 pull-ups then finished with another 50-yard crawl to the finish line.

In each aspect of the race, the locals dominated, being the first out of the water and the far-and-away leaders in the military crawl.