GORUCK Challenge

[seanocono]

Nice, fellas. I received a shipping notification from Amazon, yesterday. The first of my three kettlebells has shipped, and will be here tomorrow. Of course, it's the heaviest one. I bought them all from the same page. Oh well. Maybe just swings and cleans, for now. Lunges and squats, too.

[bagley920]

Bricks wrapped. The crazy thing is that this 27 pounds feels so heavy on your back but this is the weight I used to carry on my body. I was 235 at my heaviest. Now at about 202.

[zhivago]

lookin good bags!

[bagley920]

Good read, especially his final thoughts:

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2012/12/07/the-goruck-challenge-a-review/

[seanocono]

Great read, bags.  Thanks for sharing.  I recommend taking a few extra minutes to read through the comments.  There is some inspiring stuff in there.

How'd Day One of rucking go?

[emceeQ]

Weighed my pack today and realized I carry ~25 lbs daily.  Almost there, thank you text books and laptop.

On a workout related note, similar to Adam, pushups till I can't stand it, 5-10 minute break.  Lather, rinse, repeat a few times.

Commute with the heavy pack, and then I finally went running for a few miles after not doing so for that last few months.

[madmonday]

walked around with the daughter on my shoulders as the boy practiced with his track team. did a few push-ups, but heard & felt some creaking & knocking so I slowed down on that.

thinking of setting monthly goals & seeing how this continues to progress.

oh & scheduled a full check-up with a doctor to ensure my knocking & ticking is just from inactivity & to get the official green light to move full steam ahead.

looking forward to getting back in shape & impatiently waiting on dates & location so I can make sure i'm in on this epic event.

*need images in here of some of your routines to keep this moving

[jacoavlu]

thanks for sharing monday
I'm sure you'll get a passing grade, hell you turn sideways these days you almost disappear
(seriously how much weight did you lose?)

yesterday was cardio day, 30 min run
today was repeat kb workout, need to change up the routine a bit

here's some more stuff from the goruck news blog, for folks who enjoy reading
the news blog is really good, good people, pick any old random post, you'll probably enjoy it
http://news.goruck.com/challenge/the-roots-of-the-challenge/

[madmonday]

i haven't lost anything, i'm still round as ever; but i'm going to continue working on it (plus black is slimming hahahahahaha).

*** should be noted that i have yet to modify my diet & haven't really been doing any serious cardio. i doubt i'm going to start dropping pounds until i make those much needed adjustments.

[bagley920]

Changes don't happen overnight. That's why I'm glad we started this a year early

[madmonday]

true, true.

reading what all the kids are doing in this thread is motivating. if i wasn't so vain i would put an image of what i look like now & then one every month as well as my amount of pull ups & run times.

it will be great to see where we start & where we end up

[bagley920]

I thought about that as well but didn't want to post pictures of myself on here haha

[DougNg]

Seawolf can't commit to the Goruck Challenge next year, but it looks like we're going to do the one in Annapolis this fall. Still in pencil, but even if he doesn't go, I have a couple coworkers that want to go with me

[seawolf]

Doug is correct, as I'm not sure where I'll be living next year. How about penciling me in as a maybe for the Team IH?

[bagley920]

So who we got for sure? seawolf and Rafa are maybes

[madmonday]

. . .  motivated to do it, BUT can not say for sure, for sure until I know when & where it's taking place.

*** i understand d triple & big zee can only give folks dates when the goruck folks give them dates & so it's akin to, "it will happen when it happens" thingy i've grown accoustomed to on the forum. to be fair to the goruck folks we are only going into the second quarter of 2013. having dates set for 2014 for a few denim dudes wouldn't be very high on my list of things to do.

[bagley920]

I understand that Monday.

How far in advance does Goruck set dates and locations?

[madmonday]

that i do not know & do not want to ass-u-me to make an even bigger ass of me & or you.

i'm just looking forward to it as big fun in March or April of 2014

[derivative666]

Dates are out to end of the year right now. Both Z & I have had several conversations with GORUCK guys and they are psyched about us

[MikeC]

@zhivago:

if ya know, ya know…

Exactly….

Love this quote Z.