CHANNAHON — Participants know the Warrior Dash as a two-day even put on by Red Frog Events, an organization based out of Chicago. However, for Red Frog personnel, the 5K race is a week-long event.

For the second year in a row, the race/obstacle course was set up and the 3.1-mile course laid out over the expanse of land sitting in Channahon at Dollinger Family Farm. However, long before Father's Day weekend rolled around, the event was being planned.

"We've been planning this from our office in Chicago for the past five or six months or so, which is the offsite work," Red Frog Race Director Munirah McNeely said. "We got here on site Sunday night and have been working tirelessly ever since. (Saturday) we got here bright and early so that we could get our volunteers set and ready to go. The gates opened at 8 a.m. with our first wave."