This morning during the 12 Miler I saw M-04’s tracking beacon pop up (on my phone) at McDonald’s, which was perfect since it was right on my way. I expected to see them outside, where we all belong, but they weren’t. I questioned the tracker — are they really here? I threw the Jeep in park and walked in and there they were, M-04 working as a team. One squishing soaked napkins down into a floor full of Sprite and the other looking for more. Battle buddies extraordinaire.
We’re gonna need more napkins.
They didn’t have a lot of good answers to anything and McMuffin crumbs hanging from their mustache seemed on brand. More importantly, they were an hour behind the team in the lead, which happens to be two females dominating everyone except what they’re actually capable of (which is a lot more - and we’ll find their next gear in the next 24). In fact, the women have taken this event a lot more seriously pretty much across the board.
And I also didn’t catch any of the women totally disrespecting our fine establishments in Jax Beach :)
Respect.
Numbers Update:
- We started with 8 teams of 2. 4x Male 4x Female.
- 3/4 of the male teams failed the PT test. Oddly enough, Team McMuffin was the only male team that passed.
- 4/4 female teams passed the PT test.
- Right now at the 24 hour mark, 5 teams remain. 2 Female, 2 Male, and one Male/Female we assembled so they could continue.
It’s full-on glory of the human spirit here, fueled by effort, grit, McMuffins and whatever Sprite you drank before spilling it all over the floor.
Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do, and sometimes you gotta clean it up the best you can and there is glory in that! Just keep going.
—jason
Cofounder GORUCK
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