I got into GORUCK when the Star Course in DC was announced. The ad appeared in my news feed and I made the terrible mistake of thinking it would be an easy notch on the belt. Sitting in the Uber heading home after walking 34 miles in Class 001: The DC Deathmarch, I realized …
In 2014, GORUCK came up with the idea to have an All-Women’s GORUCK event in Miami, Florida. Spurred on by the message of “Women have been the strong links at GORUCK events since forever” and “Women don’t quit”, over 150 of us showed up to an epic girls’ weekend, with 7 of the best Cadre, …
“I have been rucking for about 3 1/2 years. I started training for the 2016 GORUCK Tough event in Tallahassee with a few F3 guys that I regularly workout with. I met my future wife on that ruck, and was pretty much hooked. So much so, that I proposed to her during the endex of …
I hadn’t seen Jeff (aka The HULK) in too long and wanted to catch up. I had exactly one hour (630am – 730am) to get back or else my kids would be late for school. I thought about what we should do like this, and it’s sort of a microcosm to how I approach fitness …
I did about 5 miles and some change this morning and I want to talk about the difference between ruck shuffling, rucking and ruck running. What you saw in the CrossFit Games was a ruck run. People were by and large running as fast as they could with weight on their backs, in a rucksack. …
I was born and raised in a small town of the Czech Republic. When I moved to USA at the age of 17, the drastic change in scenery forced me to grow up, mature and learn all the lessons (that would eventually make me invincible), very early on. Finding GORUCK in 2012 was exactly what …