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A blog about what we love: people, rucking and training, the military, manufacturing, local pride, dogs, and the finer things in life. Like beer.

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Tips For Taking On Murph

By Anthony Diaz MINDSET GOING INTO MURPH: MURPH is a way to honor their courage, sacrifice, and commitment to serving others. It fosters a sense of camaraderie and solidarity within...

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Like Putting Mud Tires On a Really Fast Italian Sportscar: Building ToughMesh™

It took us five years to find the fabric to build the best performance shirt I’ve ever worn. We know how to build stuff right — in this case, what...

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Right-sizing Hearts By Saving Community Schools

And yet for all the talk of budgets and numbers, I think what I’m trying to express goes beyond the numbers and our human attempts to live and work and learn together. What value do we place on a neighbor, whose own children have left the nest, painting a tire swing with words of encouragement and love for all who pass by? How does one nurture a student, a family, a school, a community? How do we continue to weave the social fabric of our locally-led lives? 

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5 Ways to Level Up Your Walk

Walking is underappreciated as a healthy lifestyle habit. It’s the foundation of human movement—exercise—and you can do it anywhere, in any condition. It’s perfectly versatile: you can walk on sidewalks,...

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50 Miler - 80K Ruck Normandy: What to Bring and What to Wear

This is my favorite event and I’m doing it in Normandy June 1-2 with some buddies. I’ll talk about gear first - then training in a later post. 50 MILER...

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Lift Up Thine Eyes....From Thy Smartphone

It’s tough to accept when you are wrong. 

For the past decade, Jason and I have gone round and round about solo screen time for our kids. I argue there is a time and place for it; he wants to banish their iPads to the dumpster. What about when we are trapped in an airport or car with them on long trips? Or when they’ve been playing outside all day and it starts raining and we all want a break? He shrugs and says a version of “it’s a slippery slope and I don’t like it.”

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Rucking For Life

By Gordon Meehl When I say that rucking literally saved my life, I mean just that. There’s no hyperbole in my statement. If not for my regular rucking program, the...

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Cross Training For Runners

Cross training for runners is essential to stay healthy, get stronger, run farther, and keep running for years to come. There are plenty of ways to get stronger and improve...

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75 Hard Checklist - GORUCK Style

75 Hard is a mental toughness program that's been around since 2019, thanks to our friend and entrepreneur Andy Frisella. While it's not technically a fitness challenge (instead it's a...

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Create

Pablo Picasso. Young Acrobat, 1905. BF72. © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Play. Wonder. Dreams. Curiosity. Boredom. Even procrastination. How is it that...

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The 75 Hard Check-In with GORUCK HQ

75 Hard is much more than a physical challenge, it is meant to push you out of your comfort zone both mentally and physically. To successfully complete 75 Hard, designed...

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The Best Travel Pants for Hiking and Cities: GORUCK Simple Pants Explained

I wear Simple Pants 365 days a year for traveling, commuting, rucking, and training. From Colombia to Thailand to Vietnam to Tokyo to the Grand Canyon, at OCR's (Obstacle Course...

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On Recovering: From Recovery RX Founder, Chad Belger

By Chad Belger I’m Chad Belger and I’ve been an alcoholic since I was 13 years old. I’ve spent the majority of my life not giving a shit if I...

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Why 75 Hard

By Michael Easter Michael Easter here. I wrote Scarcity Brain and The Comfort Crisis.  As part of The Comfort Crisis, I spent more than a month in the Arctic backcountry....

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Kit Bags Explained

By Jason McCarthy Just imagine you’re a new recruit with an Army green duffel bag full of stuff they made you buy to start Basic Training. You show up in...

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DAILY WOD - DECEMBER 2023

12.30.23 "FINALE" 3 ROUNDS: 10 Sandbag Power Cleans 20 Sandbag Front Rack Walking Lunges (total)100m Sandbag Bear Hug Carry 10 Sandbag Squat Cleans 20 Sandbag Front Rack Walking Lunges (total)100m...