GoRuck Challenge

[DirtySailor]

GORUCK Challenge Class 292

This is me at the end.

Freezing fucking cold

This guy I am carrying has done 4 of these challenges before and right now is going on his sixth. Guy's a beast.

We had to switch off wearing these stupid fucking cones.

I like the Iwo Jima like quality of this picture. At least that is how it felt at the time.

This was our Cadre, a Special Forces soldier named Chris. Will destroy your lady's pussy and drink all your beers.

Doing log presses after carrying that fucking log for miles. Don't let the beer fall off.

The guy who is waving and has a cold one in his hand is by this point very fucking wasted. Also is a soldier in the 160th and aside from me, the only other .mil guy in the class.

We are "assaulting" a "machine gun nest". Also that stupid fucking cone is my "helmet" so I don't get my head blown off.

Nature's M-4's in our hands.

In our packs, we have to carry wrapped bricks. The only girl in the class was constantly cheating. Sometimes she succeeded. But most of the time, like here, she failed. Caught trying to dump bricks. So we had to find a new log and finish the challenge. Later we had to carry two logs because she tried to cheat again...immediately after the Cadre decided to let us get rid of the second log.

Said chick.

Near the end. I had a fucked up ankle, but no way in hell was I going to quit.

Getting my patch.

Class 292. Good mother fuckin' livin'!

 

[walra107]

Bad Ass...Looks like a hell of a time.

 

[Lefty375]

Awesome pics bro. Looks like one heck of a time!

 

[Jay]

Signed up for 5JAN13 at 0100 in Atlanta. Got a couple of buddies doing it with me. Doing crossfit twice a day plus running/swimming for preparation. There's a Selection GoRuck not too long after that, we all may be signing up for that as well. I'm freakin pumped!

 

[Silence Dogood]

I just signed up for the February 2nd GRC in Houston with a friend of mine. I'm looking forward to getting a dose of "Good Living". Also, it is worth mentioning that they have a sweet deal going on right now called the Buddy Pass. Two for the price of one!

 

[Jay]

Just completed the Challenge in Atlanta. 1am till 1:45 pm. I'm not in the military so I don't have a whole lot to compare to it other than I've done a few of the warrior dashes and tough mudder runs etc. Nothing compared to this. This was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, and now I want more. We also had Cadre Chris, he was absolutely hilarious and very insightful. We started at the Coca-Cola factory in Atlanta and the cops were none to pleased we were trespassing so he had to make a new plan on the fly. So we left, and started a full blown 3 mile run to a random area in the shittiest part of Atlanta. Luckily we had a former Recon Marine with us and kinda snapped everybody together really freakin quickly. We became a team FAST. Between elephant walks, inch worm push ups, bear crawl baseball, buddy carries, litter carries, beer, more buddy carries, two logs for 3 miles, and then oh wait...more buddy carries. I'd say the first 30 min I was thinking "what the hell have I gotten myself into"...but honestly there was nothing that could have made me or my buddies quit. I plan to do the new event called GoRuck Heavy which is 24+hours in April here in Atlanta. They have a lot of new events and lower prices, Navigation(according to Cadre Chris you'll go in knowing nothing and come out a land nav stud), I also plan to do Selection, Beached and Ascent. Pictures to follow once they are posted.

Also, my body is wrecked today. I have never been this sore in my life. Needless to say crossfit and the occasional hike isn't enough prep if you want to excel. Anyone can pass this challenge...just don't quit. period. Cadre Chris highly advised MilitaryAthlete for preparation and to follow his selection prep's if going to selection. So, heeding his advice, I start Tuesday.

One last thing. I have always respected our military for as long as I can remember, and even more so of the special operations forces. After asking Cadre Chris and the Recon Marine how this compares to selection..I have a whole new level of respect. We went for 12 hours and that was it. Not 16 hours , 18 hours, 24 or 48 hours or 5 days or 21 days or 12 weeks or how ever long these selections can last. This was half a day...and now I get to sit on my ass, drink beer and watch football instead of doing this all over again for a longer period of time with harder events/challenges and running on far less less sleep, etc. I'm enlisting this year, my confidence is higher bc of everything that happened yesterday but as I lay in bed and write this I've never been so humbled. If you are a SOF hopeful, this Challenge should be a damn requirement...do this before you go. You'll realize your body is going to go a hell of a lot further than your mind. Pain starts right from the beginning, just accept it and get past it. It's so easy to talk, but until you go through something like this which I can only imagine as minuscule compared to a real selection, it's incredibly humbling and it makes you feel safer that there are harder men than I that are protecting my freedoms that I think most Americans take for granted everyday. Thank you to all that serve and all that have served.

 

[Sendero]

Solid write up, thanks for sharing.

 

[Jay]

1am, lined up at the Coca-Cola Factory. Little did we know what was ahead!



yay telephone poles! We carried this thing 4.6 miles. Awesome.


Then Cadre Chris found another "coupon" aka a rail road tie. On with the suckfest!


Guy carrying Old Glory was a Recon Marine. This guy snapped us together as a team freakin fast. Awesome guy! A true example of a Quiet Professional! Apparently our GRC was his interview to work as a Cadre, we didn't find that out until afterwards.


Everyone about to take off on what ended up being our final mission we had to take a "nuke" into Atlanta as fast as possible. Hot girls are "threats" and we had to hit the ground while Cadre Chris talked to her. Within 2 minutes of the run a girl goes running by...no one says anything as it is the Flag carriers job to call it. The Recon Marine was doing so and Cadre Chris yelled out "Good call Marine!!!" we all died laughing which made it quite difficult to "haul ass" another couple of miles.. Oh and The "team leader" had his "helmet" on and was ready to go just before... Weirdo.


Snipers were shooting our guys so we had to continue on carrying each other.



The guy on my shoulders is about 225lbs and was screaming about his nuts hurting, I frankly didn't care, ha. His face is priceless.


More buddy carries!
Cadre Chris telling us to stop because suck.



Congrats, we're officially "GoRuck Tough"

 

[Jay]

Class 370 ATLANTA Group Shot

TIME TO DRINK!

 

[Silence Dogood]

GoRuck Challenge Class 399 secured just before 1000 this morning with 31 out the original 34. I'm proud to count myself among them. I'll post up an AAR once I can descramble my brain, and get a hold of the pics from the photographer.

 

[Jay]

GoRuck Challenge Class 399 secured just before 1000 this morning with 31 out the original 34. I'm proud to count myself among them. I'll post up an AAR once I can descramble my brain, and get a hold of the pics from the photographer.
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It'll take a few days, give them time. Request access to the GRT FB group and you'll see the pics a lot faster. Welcome to re family, brother!!

 

[8654Maine]

Nice job, SD and Jay!

 

[dknob]

Some fuck stick broke into my car some months back and jacked my Glock mags and even my GoRuck Tough patch!
How do I get a replacement?

 

[Jay]

Some fuck stick broke into my car some months back and jacked my Glock mags and even my GoRuck Tough patch!
How do I get a replacement?

Do another Challenge :)

 

[8654Maine]

Hahaha!
Dknob, it had to be some wanna be. Who the fuck takes a patch? I didn't hear of it until this site.

Jay, good luck on your next challenges and enlisting.

You said you signed up for the Navigation in Aug. Also think about local orienteering clubs and outings. Dead reckoning, pace count (with ruck), terrain association & orienteering are critical. Practice, practice.

 

[Ranger Psych]

You can get a spare patch off the site from what I saw, they check your name across the stuff. Think "Tab Check" at RTB style.

 

[dknob]

Hahaha!
Dknob, it had to be some wanna be. Who the fuck takes a patch? I didn't hear of it until this site.

Jay, good luck on your next challenges and enlisting.

You said you signed up for the Navigation in Aug. Also think about local orienteering clubs and outings. Dead reckoning, pace count (with ruck), terrain association & orienteering are critical. Practice, practice.

If you are talking to me - I signed up for the Ascent. I would like to do Navigation, I miss land nav and was awesome at orienteering.

 

[8654Maine]

Sorry, meant for Jay.
Good luck on the Ascent. Sounds cool.

 

[Marine0311]

What packs did you use (all) use for GORUCK and why?

 

[Silence Dogood]

I used my GR2 for the Challenge because it is the only decent pack I own. I went with the GR2 because I needed it to hold my 17" laptop. A GR1 (or maybe smaller) pack would have probably been more manageable during buddy carries, and bear crawls. The upside is that the GR2 made a nice big shelf to balance a large chunk of cement on during the last leg.