So this morning I wanted to share with the PAX posting at the Deep a little taste of all the fun and exciting things we did during the Go Ruck Tough #2259 about a week ago. This was my 1st Go Ruck event and it was even tougher than I imagined. For the 12 hours we rucked, carried logs, carried people, did burpees, ran, and many other awesome & painful things. No time to waste! No rucks with extra weight for the PAX, but we’d be fine without them.

The Thang

Quick warmup lap around the parking lot with:
High Knees – Butt Kickers – Side shuffles – Karaokes

Mosey to the Field – Circle Up!

I started with a common theme we received from the Cadres at the Go Ruck Tough. I told the PAX they were moving too slow on our warm-up lap.
Your penalty = 5 burpees!

COP
25 SSHs – 20 MNCs – 10 Windmills – 15 IWs – 10 Merkins – 20 Mountain Climbers

Time to mosey to the first of four cones set up on the field. I shared with the men our welcome party from Friday night. We were given our first assignment and assigned a Team Lead and Assistant Team Lead. For the first hour at the Tough we had to cover four corners, do the exercises listed on the cue cards, and then in 2 line formation hump it around the track for a lap to the next card. At the tough there were 5 exercises, all while wearing your ruck sack. Today we’d do the following, without a ruck.

3 exercises each corner, run around the full field to the next cone. Keep the PAX together!

Corner 1
5 burpees
10 Squats
20 LBCs
run a lap

Corner 2
5 burpees
10 Merkins
30 American Hammers
run a lap

Corner 3
5 Burpees
20 Carolina Dry Docks
40 SSHs
run a lap

Corner 4
5 Burpees
20 Lunges
30 Mountain Climbers

We took a small walk and discussed how much “humping” we had to do during the Go Ruck Tough. We totaled around 13 miles with our rucks for the full 12 hours. Doesn’t seem like much for that amount of time, but trust me…it sucked!

We took off for the other school and headed to the Track
Witch Hunt and I shared the next phase was some learning around military recon, movement and army tactics from Cadre Flash and Cadre Daniel. Really interesting, and the only time we really got our breath all night at the Tough.

So for today, we would do our cover and move in pairs 100 yards down the field.
Cover & Move = 1st partner lays down – other jumps up, moves 5 feet ahead and lays down – partner 1 jumps up and leaps frogs ahead of partner 2

Once we finished we moved over to the track for my FAVORITE part of the Tough – PT!
So the only time we got to ground our rucks for the night was during PT. Cadre Daniel says for PT we’re going to do 100 burpees then run a 1.1 mile track, then do 50 more burpees and run that 1.1 lap again – all within 32 minutes or you will performance out of the GRT! This was terrible around 3am…by the end guys were dry heaving and I almost passed out. I finished with Witch Hunt at 35 minutes and change…lucky for us Cadre Daniel added a little time due to the track having hills. So the cut was 37 minutes. He didn’t actually send anyone packing Friday night, but he did pull about 60% of the guys that didn’t make the 37 minute time and gave them a dressing down before we moved on.

At the Deep we paired it back but it still sucked; we did:
30 burpees then 2 laps around the track for a 1/2 mile
20 burpees then another 2 laps
The men finished around 12-14 minutes (gassed)

Another fun part of the Go Ruck, Cadre Daniel told us we left a mess at the start and we were going to have to pay a penalty. 2 minutes of flutter kicks, if ANYONE drops he’s going to start the time over…I hated this, so I cut our time down to 1 1/2 minutes…which was still terrible on Saturday! Lots of groans by the time we hit 90 seconds.

We moseyed back to the Middle School, this next part came from our 10th hour as we joined the Patriot F3 PAX for their Saturday morning workout. The first thing Incoming had us do, 6s up a hill. Start at bottom with 5 Merkins – bear crawl up the hill 1 Monkey Humper walk backwards down the hill.

This Saturday we did something very similar, but our hill started at the top. 5 merkins – run down – 1 Monkey humper – Bear crawl up
Repeat this until you’ve reached 1 Merkins and 5 Monkey Humpers

We finished up and headed back to COT

Announcements:
Next Week the Deep will start at 6:30am for summer time hours!
Savage Race and Mud Run coming up

Prayers for Patience and Love

Always a honor to lead, amazed that all 59 F3 men made it through last weeks GRT #2259!

Royale, survivor of #GRT2259