When I was living in Oklahoma City one of my closest friends there, Gena, told me about GORUCK. Her husband was deployed and she asked me to participate in an event with her. I started rucking specifically to train for my event. A trainer at my gym, and a former Marine, programmed workouts specifically to …
I was deployed to Iran after an Iranian Air Defense unit mistakenly shot down a civilian flight over Tehran killing 176 people, 17 of whom were either Swedish citizens or Swedish residents. My foreign affairs team’s mission was to retrieve some of the bodies to return to Sweden for a worthy funeral and establish contact …
I bet most of you have heard of packing cubes, and maybe some of you have heard of field pockets. Aren’t they just the same thing? In some ways, they are. But there are a few key differences which is why they are named differently and why GORUCK sells both Packing Cubes and Field Pockets. …
Tia-Clair Toomey, the Fittest Woman on earth for 3 years in a row, weighs in on how the new Speed Rucker allows you to run faster without jeopardizing your running technique. “It’s a very comfortable bag. It’s firm and it doesn’t move while you’re running.” The first ever Mayhem Classic took place on January …
It Started with Events I found out about GORUCK in early 2014. I had just begun to dabble in the endurance event world having finished a few Spartan Races the year before with a co-worker. I remember that we had spotted groups of ruckers at these races but we didn’t know what they were about…just …
Everyday apparel is tough for me to find and always has been. Growing up playing sports and now with Weightlifting and Crossfit, I have always had more of an athletic build. Of course this is not society’s “norm”, so pants tend to be too tight in the quads and too big in the waist or …