We Stand Alone Together
B.L.U.F. – Changes are coming to Fire Ant. New start time – 0500. New location – Tega Cay Elementary School. New name – Currahee. Launch date is Feb 2. Read on to understand the why.
The purpose of this change is to establish a ruck AO that is purposefully built to be a harder option. This will be THE place to come to prepare for your ruck events. Even if you are not doing an event it will be the place to show up when you are ready to put in max effort and push yourself beyond what you thought you were capable of. As I stated when I first took over Fire Ant, this is the not the place to come “to get some miles”. There are other options, very good ones mind you, for that (if you haven’t been to Sole to Soul you are missing out). This AO is built around purposefully seeking pain and discomfort because we know it is only through these things that we can truly grow. Let me explain each change a bit more…
Schedule is 0500 – 0600 each Tuesday. There is a lot that can be done in this extra 15 minutes. Rather it be allowing for greater distance to be covered or just extra pain the 1-hour format asks a bit more from the Pax and requires a bit more of the Q resulting in growth.
New location is Tega Cay Elementary School. New location is better suited for more ruck style pain. Available options, for those who haven’t visited Pantheon, include a very large field, hills, plenty of parking lot, on site coupons, short travel to Tega Cay trails (more hills) and the playground set in the back. I too will miss seeing the guys at Golden Corral, but this change will allow Ruckers to stretch themselves beyond what is available now I believe.
New name (effective Feb 2) is Currahee. If you are not familiar with this word, I highly recommend watching Band of Brothers. It is a Native American word meaning “to stand alone” or “to stand alone together”. When the paratroopers were first getting established the 506th Airborne Regiment were training at Fort Benning, Georgia. They would run 3 miles up and 3 miles down Currahee mountain. This was a brutal test of strength and endurance and truly only the strongest would make it. That is the tone the new Currahee AO will set. We stand alone together (not as individuals) and apart from others as we choose to do the harder thing – the thing that even we didn’t think was possible all in an effort to be an elite group of men ready to take on whatever comes at us.
So…if this excites or intrigues you then prepare yourself and be ready to post each week to embrace the pain and the discomfort and ultimately the strength that comes from it. See you Feb 2 0500 Tega Cay Elementary School. 1-2-3 Currahee!
