Catching up after a quick miss step. Forgot to open Actifit yesterday 😑 or somehow closed it. Made up for it a little today with a 10k ruck. At least I hope I made up for it. It's been a long, long day.

Goruck Echo

To many this may seem like a stupid thing to get excited over or even buy in the first place... To others, like myself, a bag be almost an extension of ones self... The exciting thing about the bag on

Worlds Collide Read the full story here There's also a great podcast interview with The Bitcoin Pizza Guy... Very cool story! The event I participated in last weekend was run by Goruck and I had no idea

Well... I made it 27 miles out of the total of 50+. A combination of small things added up to be too much. Main areas of poor planning were... Failure to train on gravel/dirt surface. I was expecting mostly

50 miles coming up! It's supposed to rain the rest of the evening and through the night so it's gonna be a wet one! Hopefully that doesn't impact performance too negatively, but we'll see! All packed and

Getting down to the final countdown for my Goruck Star Course Event (50 miles in 20 hours or less)... So far training has been going well though not quite as ambitious as I first intended... The time

Hit the mean streets of DC and the rail-to-trail today and put in some miles! The weather was great starting out, but by mile 12 it took a chilly and wet turn. That put a bit of a hitch in our get along

The fam and I made a quick trip down to Florida to spend time with my wife's family down that way. You know I had to get a quick ruck in! One of the ubiquitous lakes in the area! I forget the name of this

I went on a 15 mile ruck this morning in preparation for my 50 miles in 20 hours or less coming up in May! Yea... I know the data only says 14.5 miles, but it ended up being just over 15... I forgot to

Time to start ratcheting up the mileage... Goal for this ruck sesh yesterday was 6 miles minimum... It was an overcast day, but temps weren't too bad, very pleasant for rucking actually. Let's get to

Not even long enough to be considered a training ruck for my 50 miler. More of just a quick 20 minute way to get the blood moving. 30 pounds in the GR Echo and while I don't usually carry a fixed blade

Last Friday I signed up for for an event to do 50 miles in under 20 hours.... It's in May. Time to get training! Gotta fit it in when I can... Thankfully there are lots of sidewalks around, but that means

The best kind of spicy! I just signed up for this a few days ago.... Best decision or worst decision of 2018 so far remains to be seen! What is it? Well this event is going to basically be a 50 mile photo

That "rule" comes from one of my favorite blogs; redteams.net, they're not on Steemit, but I visit and read regularly... They have a whole list of rules some of which are more funny than serious.

If you haven't watched the film Big Trouble in Little China this will likely not make quite as much sense to you... The film is a wild and hilarious tale starring Kurt Russell... There is an exchange in

And the importance there of... (Photo is from Goruck.com. My own will follow when I receive the bag) I just had to make an "emergency" order of this little kit bag GORUCK makes. It's basically

Designs and sayings attached to velcro or sewn directly to something are commonly referred to as morale patches. In the military patches are usually mundane - names tapes, Branch identifier, Unit Patch,

This was actually yesterday, but I had already posted a few times and didn't want to get too post happy... Nothing to crazy pace wise, but the shoes were brand new and this was a good trial by fire break

Still trying to stay active this week and beyond while simultaneously taking advantage of the beautiful weather we're having here... Even brought some silver along... Olga the Britannia is there with the