- When: 10/10/17
- QIC: Fertile
- Pax: Bench, Cold-Cut (DOUBLE RESPECT), Crankshaft, Dex, Duff, Fertile, Goose, Grammar, Gretzky, Jock Itch, Joker, Lynard Skynyrd, Ma Bell, Marlboro Man, Otown (RESPECT), Patch (RESPECT), Pied Piper, See Thru, Spinal Tap (RESPECT), Strokes, Vanilla
YHC saw the opportunity to Q #RuckReady and took it especially with all the local Rucking events coming to Central, Eastern, NC (Capital Ruck Tour, and Go Ruck Tough and Light) & of course Jock Itch & Pied Pipers GRT in Yorktown this weekend. So today, I wanted to foreshadow some mock scenarios / mission with the PAX to begin “getting comfortable with being uncomfortable”. See Thru & I arrived at 0420 to spread out the partner coupons and to plant the flag before EC. 0440 16 PAX rucked 3+ miles. 0529 arrived with 7 additional PAX totaling 21 PAX, disclaimer given and the TEAM workout began.
WARMUP:
Shuffle to Ruck University flag were GRT mock mission instructions were given and team coupons became visible. #mumblechatter began…
THE THANG:
Expalined to the PAX that today we were going to test our limits as every Go Ruck event is different in structure, time & mileage. So today would be no different. Explained The Challenge: Team Coupons with timed mileage (if we met our time there was a reward; if we went over our time, we had penalties). Glad to say, no penalties were given. The PAX quickly partnered up with 6 carrying the log, 4 carrying the stretcher, 2 carrying the 2×4 with 3 center blocks in the center, 2 carrying the 4×4 with tire in the center, 2 carrying the water pipe, 2 carrying another water pipe, and 3 behind last partner coupon being the time keepers (rotation forward every 1 minute). PAX began their march on the trail and through the woods. After about 7 minutes PAX seemed to get rotations down and displayed tremendous TEAMwork with figuring out how best to carry the different coupons. Every minute the group would move forward 1 position moving to the next partner coupon; while the 2 PAX coming off the log rotated to the back; so on and so on…The PAX completed the mileage under time limit, so we ditched the log and placed the other coupons down to circle up for PT (cadence of merkins & ruck curls x 12 led by YHC). Back on the coupons with same rotation covering a total of 2.5 miles in 40 minutes. PAX arrvived back at the flag at 0610 for mary (all in cadence; See thru: flutter kicks with ruck over head x 30, Pied Piper: windshield wipers with ruck over head x 20, Jock Itch: rucks back on for mountain climbers x 20 and Cold Cut (RESPECT) closed us out with wide-arm merkins x 12).
COT/BOM:
Prayed for Vanilla’s dad who is going in for surgery Friday, Marlboro Man’s uncle back in the hospital and for all the breast cancer patients in recovery & remission.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
MaBell has Q at #TheSchoolYard tomorrow
PAX lunch today is at Christy’s Euro Pub; call String Bean if planning on attending.
Darkside Patches still available. See Goose if interested
MOLESKIN:
It is awesome to see great numbers at #Ruck Ready week after week. I wanted to continue to challenge myself and my fellow brothers on the Go Ruck TEAM aspect (Together Everyone Accomplishes More) as it is always a team event. Today we performed well as a TEAM around communication, discipline and leadership as we tested our limits. Great work by all men today…we certainly didn’t train for the bare minimum today!
Jock Itch, thank you again for allowing me to Q this great AO!
Until next time…Fertile out