The pre-dawn gloom of Forrest Hill Park welcomed 11 GrowRuck warriors to an epic beatdown. With only 47 days left to train for GTE #47, today’s challenge was a taste of the real deal, but only 1/6th the duration. Here’s how these HIM’s turned green to celebrate the holiday and conquer the flesh:
ROSIE’s “WARM-UP”:
- Warm up on the tennis court – SSH, Ukrainian Soldiers, Helicopter, Imperial Walkers.
- PT test prep with 30 HRM and 35 WWII’s.
- Over to the hill for 11’s – Squats at the top, Mtn Climbers at the bottom.
- Finish at the bottom and bear crawl up half the hill and lunge the rest.
- Circle up for some weighted OH press, cleans and squats.
THE RUCK LOOPS:
- DTH directs the PAX to the coupon trailer to collect x3 Logs (8’ segments of telephone pole), and x3 Sandbags (weights of 25#, 50#, 60#)
- PAX rotate Implements of Woe as needed
- Ruck down the paved path alongside Forrest Hill Ave
- Once pond is reached, PAX un-shoulder burdens and Speed Ruck Loop #1
- Plank it up – Mission Challenge, x5 Merkins awarded each time a PAX member messes up stating the F3 mission …20 merkins completed
- Loop #2 carrying the logs&bags
- Plank it up, merkins awarded for messing up the Credo …15 merkins completed
- Loop #3 another speed ruck
- Plank it up, merkins awarded for messing up the 5 Core Principles…5 merkins
- Final Loop #4 carrying logs/bags, stop at the long paved road up to the parking lot
- Plank it up, hold plank while all together reciting the F3 Mission, Credo, and 5 Core Principles
- Re-shoulder Implements of Woe and Ruck them aaaaaalllllll the way up the hill and back to the trailer.
GRAND FINALE:
- Each PAX collect a cinderblock from the coupon trailer
- Circle up near the stone House to complete IC reps of Overhead Presses, Straight arm lifts, Pulls, Skull Crushers
- TUG OF WAR – split pax 5v6 with House Party and Mudslide as anchors on each end. HP’s team of six easily yanked the other team over the line. x10 Burpees for the losers while the winners do Squats.
- Round 2, the extra man goes to Mudslide’s team… but then the House Party team of 5 still yank us over the line easily… HMMM. Burpees again (vomit a little in mouth)…
- Round 3, Dealer is called to join the losing side. House Party doesn’t look worried as his team of 4 takes on 7. Finally, Mudslide’s team gains a win. Everyone does 5 burpees.
- Pick up the cindies and ruck across the field to the far hill – MURDER BUNNIES to the top of the hill.
- Carrying cindies overhead, run back down the hill and up the other side, then return cindies back to the coupon trailer.
- Mosey BTTF for COT
COT:
- Counterama # 11
- Namerama
- Announcerama (see Below)
- BIODOME took the PAX out in Prayer
NMS: Well, that was hard – like, harder than The Hardest Mile level of hard. Definitely wouldn’t have done it without you HIM’s, and only bummed we didn’t get the whole lot of the GTE-Registered PAX out there to experience it. Good number of guys out of town or sick/recuperating, but we’ll do this again in a couple weeks. SUPER stoked to have SABLE’s HC on Registering today, and BIODOME is a SC that’s steadily getting hard. Proud of you men! SYITG, DTH
“Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.” Mark Twain
Announcements (SEE SLACK!)
- ALAMO 1 YEAR, tomorrow 0530
- Register for GTE here: https://growruck.com/event/gte-47/
