Selection 018 is complete. 48+ hours, 80+ miles in and around the hills of Bellbrook, Ohio, USA. True to our roots, we use our events to test and prove the toughness of our gear. The 50+ LB rucks that participants carried and dragged for days. The 40 LB, 60 LB, and 80 LB sandbags that participants …
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AAR Selection 015: Jon Eytchison #025
After Action Report: Selection 015 Candidate #025 : Jon Eytchison Terminology: Everyone knows what these terms mean right? Well, I didn’t know all of them when I started so just to be fair to those who might be reading this that are new to the GORUCK community: GRT – GORUCK Tough. Used to describe a …
Selection Class 015 Part 10: After Thoughts and After Parties
I’ve felt how Jon looks and so have you. A loss of something, a gain of something else. Something more. You can’t quite comprehend what just happened and nobody can deal with it but you. For another time, though. I’ll happily spoil your moment and replace it with our moment where you talk about your …
Selection Class 015 Part 9: The Finish
If you earn it, the end will come. Robots become teddy bears, and those still standing earn nothing you can ever buy. Past Selection finishers, the Cadre, and Jon. Then we opened the door everyone poured out and Jon just kinda stood there awkwardly, with a busted fly no less. We’ve talked about whatever your reasons should be …
Selection Class 015 Part 8: Shark Attack
The beat down is a formality at this point, a race to the 48 hour mark. But we won’t let that get in the way of a feeding frenzy kind like you’ll find on TV if you’re fond of the only best parts of Shark Week. We just don’t know any other way, even when …
Selection Class 015 Part 7: The Long Walk
The miles, the dark, the monotony, the everything aching as the silence demands attention. You carry less you carry more when does this end but if everything ended when we wanted it to we’d learn so much less about everything. The known variable in this event is that it’s 48+ hours. Meaning this is the last …