By Betsy Allen

Athletes from Putnam County and surrounding areas participated in grueling challenges at the Battle Run Fitness Games, held last Saturday, March 20. The event featured a series of twelve fitness contests, including carrying 45-pound containers of water, flipping enormous tires end on end, endurance planking, weighted rope pulls, stair climbing, log carrying, and dragging weights ranging between 100 and 190 pounds across a distance of forty yards. While many participants were local,…