When Life Hands You Lemons Ruck Challenge

Preamble:

The Lawrenceville Cadre Basic got cancelled for Sunday (sept 1).  Instead of curling up and sucking our thumbs about it, a few of us did our own ruck/BD challenge.

Warm-O-Rama:

Weed pickers, quad stretches, sun-gods

The Thang:

7.6 miles Ruck with 3 BD stations (no more than1/2 hour each). A truck parked at 4-mile mark with a cold water for refill station. Suggested 20-pound rucks.
Location Starts and Ends: At the open parking behind Gate City Brewery Roswell
1) Ruck 1.8 miles to BD Station 1
2)BD 1: With a partner complete the following challenge:
-200 Box Cutters, 200 ruck sack pull throughs, 400 flutter kicks -alpha count.
-While partner 1 works on challenge, partner two runs up trail 200 feet completes 10 M’ericans, runs back and takes over challenge while partner 2 runs/m’ericans. cycle till challenge is complete
3) Ruck 1.9 miles to BD Station 2 (Roswell Mill Hill)
4) BD 2: With a partner complete the following challenge. Complete Rotaion1 and 2 three times
-Rotation1: Partner 1 holds wall sit while partner 2 ‘Rifle Carry” Ruck up Roswell Mill Entrance hill (the big one). Comes back and swaps for Partner 1 to complete Rifle Carry uphill cycle
Rotation2: Partner 1 holds plank while partner 2 ‘Rifle Carry” Ruck up Roswell Mill Entrance hill (the big one). Comes back and swaps for Partner 1 to complete Rifle Carry uphill cycle
4.a) Forced break for water refill and cooldown (10 mins)
5) Ruck 1.8 miles to BD Station 3
6) BD 3: With a partner complete the following challenge:
-Both partners rotate to complete challenge x 2 cycles.
-1: Partner 1: 100 foot bear crawl, sprint back
Partner 2: hold plank
-2: Partner 1: lunges for 100 foot, sprint back
Partner 2: hold plank
-3: Partner 1: 100 foot Basketball Defense Shuffle (right), Basketball Defense Shuffle (left) back
Partner 2: hold plank
7) Ruck 1.2 miles to end

Map:
https://www.alltrails.com/explore/map/map-august-27-2024-9990288?u=i&sh=i95af1

Naked-Man Moleskin:

The men did outstanding, rising up to the challenges and the heat. Fantastic first effort for this Ruck Challenge. Completion time 4:15 hours. Participants were awarded the most coveted ‘Lemon Wedge’ patch…and then to Gate City for F2 vibes