A hole in all our hearts and the origins of GORUCK. Though time has passed, I can recall with absolute clarity the rage I felt after 9/11. Soon enough our memories of Ground Zero will have a memorial, and a monument, and an anchored skyline. And when the Challenge comes to NYC, 1 World Trade Center will always be on the route. Not so much for what it was as for what it is.
Class 004 met up at 2am on a chilly middle-of-the-night. NYC was characteristically oblivious, even as 15 Challenge takers started running under headlamps through a dark Central Park. The team bonded fast, reveling in the camaraderie of cold, wet, and muddy from head to toe. Logs moved great distances above shivering Challenge takers before the …
We spent Cinco de Mayo together at New York's best margarita joint, Tortilla Flats, though next morning the wakeup was a little slow and preferably would have been in black and white.