GoRuck Training

Week 2, GoRuck Training…we are badasses. Plain and simple. Bad. Asses.  At least that is what I have to tell myself when I get in bed on Friday nights from now on thanks to Freight. These workouts are tough but a LOT OF FUN. I started on my Weinke last weekend on my way home from the inaugural GoRuck Training with Freight and think I made some adjustments last night before falling asleep.  Boudin wanted some EC so we did a couple miles before 0600 so when we got back to the parking lot an hour before the start of GasHouse with a bunch of cars in the parking lot, I was a bit surprised.

We started with a short mosey to the steps behind the church to pick up part of a telephone pole I had obtained a few months back. We took turns 2-person carrying this back to the track at Grier. We had a couple 40# sandbags and The Rock as coupons. The Rock is a couple pieces of granite wrapped in a towel that we used some Alabama chrome to attach a speaker so we could listen to Whoopee’s favorites this morning. Thanks for the assistance with this modification to The Rock Voodoo. Once we got to the track we  go to work. The group carried the above coupons in 1 direction and 2 Pax carried the telephone pole in the other direction. The group did 10 squats every quarter lap while the pole carriers kept a steady pace in the other direction until they met. At that time, the pole carriers swapped out for 2 semi-fresh pax. This process continued until all of us had a chance to carry the telephone pole for a lap. I think we went 37 laps in total (see above reference about Bad Asses).

We moved onto the grass for the next part: Bear with Me. This is a GoRuck exercise that we have done before at Diablo so there were some groans when I announced this. We moved the sandbags as our 10 yard markers and started up. The exercise involves Bear Crawls back and forth between the markers and 1 set of exercises at each end. The first round included the following: 20 reps of Squats, Merkins, Ruck Curls, Flutter Kicks, and Mountain Climbers. To be clear, this goes like this-bear crawl, squats, bear crawl, merkins, bear crawl, ruck curls…. For round 2, we did squats, upright rows, ruck curls, chest presses, and flutter kicks (I think). This took us the better part of the first hour so we headed back the long way to start to meet up with the BootCampers/PainLabbers with all of our coupons.

At this point a few of us re-hydrated, said the pledge with everyone, then headed out again after trading the telephone pole for a 60# sandbag (thanks a bunch Boudin). We started walking without any definite plans and miraculously ended up back at start at 0755 just in time for the COT. We got back in time to re-video the joke for my 2.0s about the telephone pole and calling Joe and Angie…..and the Pax ask: “Who are Joe and Angie?”……..Jo-Momma Angie-daddy (say it fast and it makes sense). Thanks guys, they enjoyed that.

If you have not been out on a ruck workout, you are missing out. Whether it is 1 on 1 or a crowd of 5 or more, the camaraderie and 2nd F that goes on is really what F3 is about. We all took turns with the coupons and no one really got too worn down. I will say it is every bit as tough as a typical F3 workouts because it is You vs You and you get your money’s worth out of these rucks if you do this right. Come check it out next week at The Yank starting at 0600 with Boudin as the Q.

At breakfast there was some chatter about IronMan races (technically a half ironman but that is a minor issue) for 2020………the goal may or may not eventually involve a trip to Hawaii……

Whoopee