Burpee 5k: Jumping All Day for a Good Cause in Evergreen Park

Jump. Jump again. And keep jumping. That’s what it takes to complete a Burpee 5K — and more than two dozen amazingly fit athletes spent hours doing just that on Saturday at Evergreen Park High School in a charity contest to benefit disabled Green Berets and their families

Amanda Fobert, a marathoner from Lemont, finished in three and a half hours. “It was harder than I thought. It was insane,” she told DNAinfo Chicago, which was on the scene Saturday. “I didn’t want to quit, and I had to make it for my son’s football game.”

The event is organized by Tim Dunne, a CrossFit trainer in Evergreen Park who finished in five hours. The race raised $2,700 for the Green Beret Foundation, and Dunne intends to stage the event again next year.

» more, and a fantastic video, via DNAinfo Chicago