{"id":1122,"date":"2011-09-12T16:41:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?1122"},"modified":"2011-09-12T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T16:41:19","slug":"thousands-join-paras-10-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/thousands-join-paras-10-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands join Paras&#8217; 10 race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2,000 people headed to Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, over the weekend to participate in a tricky challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The Paras' 10 is a race spanning ten miles and aims to offer an insight into life as a soldier, the Northern Echo reports.<\/p>\n<p>A number of competitors carried backpacks weighing 35 lbs to simulate the efforts by those in military training as they completed the task yesterday (September 11th).<\/p>\n<p>Major Ben Harrop says: &quot;The race is one of a selection of events people have to do to enter the Parachute 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