DEKA Strong / DEKA Mile

DEKA is a ten-zone functional fitness benchmark built by Spartan. Ten stations of work, a run between each one in DEKA Mile, and a number at the end that means the same thing in Ewa Beach as it does anywhere else running it.

The club is everyone who has finished one of those events on our field. There is no fee, no tier, no application and nothing to renew. You are not admitted and you cannot be removed. You did it, so you are in it.

We are Oahu's first and only Spartan DEKA affiliate, which is the reason the event can happen on this island at all instead of costing you a plane ticket.

None of it is a secret. This is the whole list, in order, and it is the same list the judges are counting against.

1. 0130 Reverse RAM Lunges
2. 02500m Row
3. 0320 Box Step-Overs
4. 0425 Med Ball Sit-Ups
5. 05500m Ski Erg
6. 06100m Farmer Carry
7. 0725 Cal Air Bike
8. 0820 Dead Ball Shoulder-Overs
9. 09100m Sled Push/Pull
10. 1020 RAM Burpees

In DEKA Mile, a 160m run comes before each zone. Ten runs, and that is where the mile comes from — the distance is not a separate event bolted on, it is the thing between the work.

You can read that list a year out and train for exactly it. Most people do.

Warrior Field, behind the basketball courts at the AMVETS West Oahu Veterans Center in Ewa Beach. On event day the rig goes up, the zones get marked out across the grass, and judges count the reps out loud.

It is the same grass people train on every other week of the year. Nothing is trucked in to make it look like a venue. That is the point — you compete where you trained, on the surface you already know.

Photos by Derik Araki. See the full album →

Being assembled, and it will go up here when it is right.

We are not going to guess at it. Everyone listed will be someone who finished, listed the way they asked to be listed — nobody gets published because a photograph proves they were there. If you crossed the line on our field and you want your name on this page, tell a coach.

What will never be on it: ages, contact details, or anything about what someone trains around. A finisher is listed as a finisher.

Train for the ten zones, then do them on the day. That is it — there is no shortcut worth writing down.

• Spartan DEKA Training — the zones, coached, on the field they are run on.
• The schedule — the next event goes up there when the date is set.

You do not have to be fast. The ten zones do not care how long you take, and neither does the list — it only records that you finished.