Comfort is the enemy, but here’s the thing. The surest way to defeat it is to find something you’re scared as hell of, train your ass off, and do it. Outcomes be damned, to fight is to win and true tragedy is reserved for those souls who fear nothing, who venture nowhere, and who grow …
Tag: GORUCK Challenge
Press: GORUCK challenges the mind, body and soul
From Jacksonville.com: “’I told him that there was no way I could physically complete a challenge, but he insisted I could,’ said Malloy. ‘I went to prove him wrong with the expectation that I would be performance dropped. After we completed the event I felt like I could accomplish anything I put my mind to and …
Press: Sleepy Hollow Halloween
From Obstacle Racing Media: “Our event started at 9 pm at Peabody Field in Sleepy Hollow, NY. From the very beginning, we could tell it would be a cold night. However, no one was complaining about the cold during the welcome party.” Read more here.
Press: Ruck My Life
From Atlanta Magazine: “Lying on my stomach in the hot grass of Piedmont Park with a weighted rucksack on my back, I stared into the sweaty crotch of a Crossfitter. His ankles were on my shoulders, and my ankles were on the shoulders of the person behind me as we prepared to do a push-up …
Press: Fighting Through Pain
From Valley News: “Klemm, 33, last month completed Goruck Selection, a test of physical and mental guile unlike most on the planet. Relentlessly subjected to a battery of intense military-style drills issued by a rotating cadre intent on breaking participants, the course covers some 80 wooded miles — this version was in southeast Ohio — …
Inspiring Service at Veterans Day Challenges
On Veterans Day November 11, our nation honors 21.8 million Veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve for the common good. There are parades and yellow ribbons and we give a little more thought to what it means to Support the Troops. At GORUCK, we turn the thinking and parades into …