An Intern Throwdown!

Ben Luttrull is an intern with the ISO this summer and is working on the Symphony's Circle the City for the Symphony event in August. I've turned my blog over to him for his second installment!

If being competitive is defined as hating to lose, then I consider myself a fairly competitive person. I’ve been known to attach allegiance to teams for a month only to disavow any relationship upon the missing of playoffs. I still follow my high school marching band and cringe upon seeing any ranking other than #1. This past Ball State football season was a tug-of-war between Alma Mater loyalty and hatred of losing (still no clear winner yet). I’ve done quiz bowl, intramural sports, musical festivals and other competitions for the sole purpose of the joy of victory.

For the above reasons, I’m a little disappointed that I won’t be able to run with my fellow interns in Circle the City for the Symphony. The development interns have come up with a brilliant idea of entering the Corporate 5K Team Challenge as the official ISO Intern All-Star Team of the Decade (name pending approval). Since I’m working the event, I’ll have to only cheer and support the team on. Seeing as I’ll likely be running the equivalent of a 5K myself over the morning, it’s more of a mental setback than anything else. Still, the thought of the ISO Interns competing against their supervisors have inspired the CTC Powers That Be to consider a full-fledged bragging rights showdown between the staff.

The Corporate Team 5K Challenge is hardly limited to just the internal throwdowns. Any and every company or organization that has a group of people looking to run and compete together is more than able to register as many teams of six as they can. Rankings will be determined by the sum of the top five finishers for your team (number six serves as the tiebreaker). Every team members gets a $2 discount off of registration and a ticket to a Marsh Symphony on the Prairie concert.

There are more than just bragging rights on the line, too. There are three traveling trophies that will go to the winners of each of the three divisions. One of these trophies currently rests in the office of our VP of development, Sean.

While internal bragging rights are good, the real prize we interns have our sights set on is that trophy. We’ll have to fight through a whole lot more than just our supervisors, though. Hopefully, everyone on our team is as competitive as me.

Team registration has to be done online, and all six members have to register at the same time – go here for more info and to register.