Four Seasons Training Race

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Episode 109: part 1
Guests: Park Tae Hwan, Son Yeon Jae (Olympic athletes).
Location: Yangju, Gyeonggi-do (various locations).
Intro/Team formation (Art Park): Guests do rock-paper-scissors to choose their teams. Remaining three become a team. Son Yeon Jae-Jae Suk-Gwang Soo; Park Tae Hwan-Jong Kook-Gary; Ji Hyo-Haha-Suk Jin.
Spring Training mission (Duri Family Land): Trampoline karaoke: Score 80 points or more in karaoke with the microphone suspended above the trampoline; pool challenge: two members cross a pool, one on an inflatable raft, one in a water hamster ball, both must memorize a phrase presented halfway through and repeat it at the end, while the person on the raft has to pick up the third member halfway through and bring that person to the end. Winning team gets to choose whether to give a member of another team a disadvantage, or give a member of their team an advantage. 
Summer Training mission (Uijeongbu Budaejjigae (army stew) Street): Teams compete in games of alkkagi for ingredients for budaejjigae. Winning team gets to choose whether to give a member of another team a disadvantage or give a member of their team an advantage.
Winter Training mission (Uijeongbu indoor ice skating rink): Trash bin curling: Teams compete to push a member across the ice closest to the finish line. Winning team gets to choose whether to give a member of another team a disadvantage or give a member of their team an advantage.
Autumn Training mission, part 1 (Pocheon Herb Island): Find the bottles of colored water "potions" and bring them to the "witch", who conjures the result of each potion.
Comments: Trash bin "curling" was used in episodes 4/5 (Gwacheon Nat'l Science Museum (Jessica, Nichkhun)), although not done on ice then. Budaejjigae is a dish that was developed during and after the Korean War (1950-1953) when food was scarce. U.S. Army bases had surplus long shelf-life food, such as spam and hot dogs, which were used in stews to feed people. Uijeongbu had U.S. army bases and is considered one of the originating locations for budaejjigae. The pool challenge seems kinda arbitrary, but I think the point of how it was edited was the hilarity of the hamster ball. Revealing edit: even though the opening appears like seamless shooting, Ji Hyo is not there in the very first shots, presumably late, but suddenly appears within the first minute of the episode, so they must have broken shooting for her to get miked up and get on set. Exactly opposite, towards the end of the opening, they don't edit the part when the PD is trying to get the cast's attention to announce the rules. Probably known to regular Running Man fans, but Gary was absent for two weeks due to a back injury and returns in this episode, and recently Haha announced his engagement to singer Byul; both are referred to in the opening. Staging suspicion: in the very last sequence, the VJ of the member spying on the member getting the potion conjured would have been in plain sight, so although he was supposed to be spying, if staged, the other member knew he was there. The result, though, won't be made clear until part two.