3rd Annual Pegasus Challenge

Over the past weekend, cadets at 111 participated in our third annual Pegasus Challenge.  The Pegasus Challenge is a unique opportunity in which cadets can test their abilities at physical fitness, teamwork, personal discipline, memory, and problem solving.  The Pegasus Challenge takes the format of a race around the city, where teams must complete certain objectives before being given a clue as to their next location in the Challenge.  The weekend was broken into three parts, with all of Friday evening being devoted to team building challenges in which team members had to complete a series of problem-solving type games.

These included scavenger hunts, physical challenges, and challenges that helped to build the team’s communication heading into the rest of the weekend. The Saturday of the weekend was the race day, in which teams biked around Stanley Park, visited the Vancouver Aquarium, climbed an indoor rock wall, swam 500m, and pushed themselves to their limits by performing all of these tasks with no use of electronics or other navigational devices.  The teams were given challenges involving memory, physical endurance, ability to answer a series of trivia questions, and creativity in the creation of a music video.  Finally, on Sunday, came the much-anticipated indoor obstacle courses.  Cadets ran, jumped, and bounced their way to victory on a series of indoor inflatable obstacle courses, competing for the highest number of repetitions of each course in a given time.  The 2016 Pegasus Challenge was a huge success, brought about by the dedication of senior NCOs and officers.  111 hopes to make next year’s Pegasus Challenge even bigger and more fun, and hope that the Pegasus Challenge will continue to be an amazing year end activity for years to come!
 
-FCpl Derek Strangway