Silence Dogood
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The Nasty looks like a ton of fun! Anyone here planning on doing it?
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I may depending on the timing of life.
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For those who did this what type of pack did you use?
I got the GR1. However, there was an assortment of packs. Even an old medium Alice.
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I bought a GR2 for everyday use and also used it during my GR Challenge in Houston. The pack is solid, but too big for during the challenge. Crab walks, bear crawls, and when being carried during buddy carries the pack tends to choke me out, and is just generally awkward. If I was to pick a GoRuck pack for a Challenge I would go with the GR1 or a Radio Ruck.
This event called "Nasty" seems to be like a Tough Mudder styled event.
https://www.goruck.com/nasty/about
10 years ago, I'd do that as long as I get to stock up a ruck full of those $1 beers for the road. :-"
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Someone asked about that on the FB page and the reply from Jason (the founder) was something along the lines of : lawyers are ruining the world... Wink wink... Nudge nudge. I'm sure there will be plenty of ACRT consumed on the course!
I completed my first GRC about 9 months ago. I used the GR2 also. I believe it went 16 hrs and 24-26 miles. What a kick in the butt. I am hoping to do Selection in Spetember in Iowa.
I agree with Silence Dogood above about the GR1 being better for a challenge.
The GR2 is strong as an ox. We used it to carry the pelican box/boulder combo while carrying it by the shoulder straps. Never even creaked.
I agree with Silence Dogood above about the GR1 being better for a challenge.
The GR2 is strong as an ox. We used it to carry the pelican box/boulder combo while carrying it by the shoulder straps. Never even creaked.
When I was a grunt I hated road marches. Funny, now I'm willing to pay for it out of pocket. Crazy fun!
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Rucking + beer = EPIC!
Its' simple math really.......
Its' simple math really.......
CLASS #724 AAR
Completed another challenge this last Friday/Saturday. Had a couple of buddies from my old crossfit gym sign up two months ago and I helped them train some and on Thursday I got to drinking and up and decided to sign up. I found out that the cadre (18B) lost his best friends in Kabul on July 28th, SSGT New. He was an 18Delta who rendered aid to two soliders who were shot and while helping them he took a hit to the side. Everyone wore white t-shirts with his name and rank, place and date he passed. No one in the group was current or prior service and it was cool to see everyone come together and honor the SSGT, and it clearly meant a lot to the cadre. Throughout the challenge the cadre would talk about SSGT New and give us a glimpse on the kind of man and life he lived. Even with rucks on and 50lb sandbags on your back and walking through Atlanta at 4am everyone started getting teary-eyed hearing how great and kind and strong of a man he was. I'm not sure how many we started with but we lost 4 in the beginning at the welcome party due to lack of preparation and frankly not knowing what they had gotten themselves into. There were 3 girls, one of which has done a challenge before and the other two were crossfitters, they completed it. I'd say the three of them were far tougher than the majority of guys during this thing. We started at the coca-cola factory, went through mid town, over to I-20 and back down past turner field and back up. Roughly 22 miles. Spent a lot of time in the water and sand. I'll try to post pictures when I can.
Something I took away from this one. Just because you're arguably the strongest person doesn't mean you're the toughest. And just because you're the toughest doesn't make you a leader. I was humbled this challenge in that the smallest, and probably weakest person in the group lead like a champ and didn't complain at any point. There were 3 GRT's(people who have completed a challenge before) and while a lot of times they're made team leaders in the beginning we were all told to basically just kick ass and do work, let the leaders rise on their own, and they did.
Side note, leaving for basic training on 23 September. BCT and AIT at Ft. Sill. I am VERY eager to start this new chapter in my life!
-J
Completed another challenge this last Friday/Saturday. Had a couple of buddies from my old crossfit gym sign up two months ago and I helped them train some and on Thursday I got to drinking and up and decided to sign up. I found out that the cadre (18B) lost his best friends in Kabul on July 28th, SSGT New. He was an 18Delta who rendered aid to two soliders who were shot and while helping them he took a hit to the side. Everyone wore white t-shirts with his name and rank, place and date he passed. No one in the group was current or prior service and it was cool to see everyone come together and honor the SSGT, and it clearly meant a lot to the cadre. Throughout the challenge the cadre would talk about SSGT New and give us a glimpse on the kind of man and life he lived. Even with rucks on and 50lb sandbags on your back and walking through Atlanta at 4am everyone started getting teary-eyed hearing how great and kind and strong of a man he was. I'm not sure how many we started with but we lost 4 in the beginning at the welcome party due to lack of preparation and frankly not knowing what they had gotten themselves into. There were 3 girls, one of which has done a challenge before and the other two were crossfitters, they completed it. I'd say the three of them were far tougher than the majority of guys during this thing. We started at the coca-cola factory, went through mid town, over to I-20 and back down past turner field and back up. Roughly 22 miles. Spent a lot of time in the water and sand. I'll try to post pictures when I can.
Something I took away from this one. Just because you're arguably the strongest person doesn't mean you're the toughest. And just because you're the toughest doesn't make you a leader. I was humbled this challenge in that the smallest, and probably weakest person in the group lead like a champ and didn't complain at any point. There were 3 GRT's(people who have completed a challenge before) and while a lot of times they're made team leaders in the beginning we were all told to basically just kick ass and do work, let the leaders rise on their own, and they did.
Side note, leaving for basic training on 23 September. BCT and AIT at Ft. Sill. I am VERY eager to start this new chapter in my life!
-J
low crawls until our arms bled.
teaching buddy carries.
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Piedmont park "lake" aka sewage water
more low crawls in sand. awesome.
climbing up slides as a team in the park. I was apparently the only one enjoying myself at the time. 
Class #724 Complete. 9pm-7am exactly. Congrats team!Tatersaladftw
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Class 628 AAR - GoRuck Challenege
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cadre: Jason - Served in the 75th
Class size beginning: 21
Class size end:10
Miles: 25ish
Pack:GoRuck Radio ruck
LONG AAR. I remember this clear as day and I want anyone who is looking at doing it to have a real,in-depth description. I wil TLDR at the end. I am the individual in the michigan hat and hunting camo under armor.
What an awesome experience. We gathered around the clock tower on north campus about a half an hour before the actual start of the event. Spirits were high until inspection when someone made the mistake, unknowingly, of saying "Yes sir" to our cadre. Our cadre happened to be an NCO and claimed he "worked for a living", so we paid for that with a good 5 minute front leaning rest inspection. Then it was off to the welcome party. Push ups, overhead holds of the ruck, man makers, bear crawls, more push ups, more front leaning rest. Not 15 minutes in we lost our first two people. Apprently they have completed a challenge in the past ( unverfied statement, no clue if they did), but didnt prepare for this one. Unfortunately, they didnt bring their packs with them and we ended up slugging those arounds for 15 hours. After the two drops it was into the fountain.
The fountain was not too bad, but we were in it for a good hour. I lost my headlamp there as it seemingly exploded having been submerged and beat up on for a goodwhile. We really struggled with the overhead clap cadence ( I will post pictures of this) and got punished for that pretty good. After a decent amount of man-makers it was off to our first timed movement of the evening. The team lead and myself were in charge of the compass and making sure we made the time hack and then it was into the woods.
The northern side of Ann Arbor is incrediably thick with woods. We didnt end up making the movement and I will take blame for a dumb mistake on that. In the middle of the woods there was a fence we had to scale and upon scaling I had the compass, which was Cadre Jason's personal compass in my pocket and my shorts ripped and I, temporarily, lost his compass. I pretty much pissed myself as I thought my life was about to end if I didnt find his compass. I reluctantly told him and got everyone punished until I found his compass. I did; by sheer stupid luck I found that damn thing. From there we did some hellacious buddy carries up a steep and sandy hill with all sorts of things to do on the descent. We lost another 3-4 here.
The 12 mile march. It is not the distance that was the problem , but the one rule we had to obey and that was NO TALKING. Just you and your thoughts shuffling along in the dark. Lost a few here.
The good stuff: After the march we got to finally eat after Cadre Jason showed us how to set up a patrol base. From here the next few hours were all objective based movements and quite fun. CASEVAC movements, assaulting objectives. Fun stuff and good livin', as they say.
The Not good stuff: Well, all fun things had to end and unfortunately ours ended with the log of hell. Long movements with this beast followed by some log PT.
The End: Absolutely awesome. Very happy to be a part of a great team and to get to know Cadre Jason. I would do another in a heart beat with this group and actually have a back-to-back Challenge into a light planned for April 2014.
TLDR: Decent class that got dwindled down. Overcame extra weight, low morale from high attrition, and ourselves to make it to the end.
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cadre: Jason - Served in the 75th
Class size beginning: 21
Class size end:10
Miles: 25ish
Pack:GoRuck Radio ruck
LONG AAR. I remember this clear as day and I want anyone who is looking at doing it to have a real,in-depth description. I wil TLDR at the end. I am the individual in the michigan hat and hunting camo under armor.
What an awesome experience. We gathered around the clock tower on north campus about a half an hour before the actual start of the event. Spirits were high until inspection when someone made the mistake, unknowingly, of saying "Yes sir" to our cadre. Our cadre happened to be an NCO and claimed he "worked for a living", so we paid for that with a good 5 minute front leaning rest inspection. Then it was off to the welcome party. Push ups, overhead holds of the ruck, man makers, bear crawls, more push ups, more front leaning rest. Not 15 minutes in we lost our first two people. Apprently they have completed a challenge in the past ( unverfied statement, no clue if they did), but didnt prepare for this one. Unfortunately, they didnt bring their packs with them and we ended up slugging those arounds for 15 hours. After the two drops it was into the fountain.
The fountain was not too bad, but we were in it for a good hour. I lost my headlamp there as it seemingly exploded having been submerged and beat up on for a goodwhile. We really struggled with the overhead clap cadence ( I will post pictures of this) and got punished for that pretty good. After a decent amount of man-makers it was off to our first timed movement of the evening. The team lead and myself were in charge of the compass and making sure we made the time hack and then it was into the woods.
The northern side of Ann Arbor is incrediably thick with woods. We didnt end up making the movement and I will take blame for a dumb mistake on that. In the middle of the woods there was a fence we had to scale and upon scaling I had the compass, which was Cadre Jason's personal compass in my pocket and my shorts ripped and I, temporarily, lost his compass. I pretty much pissed myself as I thought my life was about to end if I didnt find his compass. I reluctantly told him and got everyone punished until I found his compass. I did; by sheer stupid luck I found that damn thing. From there we did some hellacious buddy carries up a steep and sandy hill with all sorts of things to do on the descent. We lost another 3-4 here.
The 12 mile march. It is not the distance that was the problem , but the one rule we had to obey and that was NO TALKING. Just you and your thoughts shuffling along in the dark. Lost a few here.
The good stuff: After the march we got to finally eat after Cadre Jason showed us how to set up a patrol base. From here the next few hours were all objective based movements and quite fun. CASEVAC movements, assaulting objectives. Fun stuff and good livin', as they say.
The Not good stuff: Well, all fun things had to end and unfortunately ours ended with the log of hell. Long movements with this beast followed by some log PT.
The End: Absolutely awesome. Very happy to be a part of a great team and to get to know Cadre Jason. I would do another in a heart beat with this group and actually have a back-to-back Challenge into a light planned for April 2014.
TLDR: Decent class that got dwindled down. Overcame extra weight, low morale from high attrition, and ourselves to make it to the end.
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^Did last weeks Heavy in Chicago with Cadre Jason, he was a pretty cool dude. Sets realistic yet challenging time hacks. We were right on Lake Michigan and unfortunately he is aware of how demoralizing the cold water and sand can be... I'll be sure to post pictures later once the photographer that shadowed us posts them.
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How did you train up for this?
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I didn't. Completely underestimated GoRuck, I was on leave and had just learned about goruck at the time and thought "hmm, this looks like fun" registered last minute and there I was. No particular way to train for these in my opinion, I mean don't skip leg day, and be comfortable with a pack, but other than that it becomes an endurance challenge to see who is willing to push themselves way out of their comfort zone. In the end we had 2 people with fractured feet and an assortment of other injuries. The people that do these things are crazy, almost everyone there already knew each other from previous challenges they did together and they do these things all the time and even travel around the country to do different ones. The men and woman I attended with showed more heart then some people I've served with. I'm down with the Goruck community.
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