When I was in the Army many years ago we would have all kinds of competitions. Many focused on military drills and skills, such as shooting, but there were also When I was in the Army many years ago we would have all kinds of competitions. Many focused on military drills and skills, such as shooting, but there were also a lot of sports competitions, one of which was an annual snowshoe race. You read that correctly; we would actually run in snowshoes. Not particularly fast, but run we did.