Goruck

Last night Ryan and a few of his Crossfit buddies pulled an all nighter 'for fun'. They participated in the Goruck challenge in downtown Seattle. It's an event that travels from city to city and brings a team of people together to participate in a boot camp like challenge throughout the night that goes all over the city. The big kicker is that while they're doing all this they have to be carrying around their 'Goruck' pack on their back that had 6 bricks in it along with all the food/water they needed for the night...it was heavy! They started out at the Great Wheel (the new Seattle farris wheel) which is super pretty at night as the sun sets! The event was supposed to kick off at 9pm, but the spent about the first hour filling out paperwork (death waivers) and getting organized as a team. One of the people on Ryan's team was Jack Osbourne (as in Ozzy Osbourne's son!). That was kind of awesome. I definitely would not have recognized him is Ryan didn't point it out.

The guys lining up. The first 4 guys in the front row and a few of the guys behind them are Ryan's Crossfit buddies.

Lined up in their team. Jack Osbourne is the second one to the right with the tan hat on.

Once they finally got going their leader (kind of like drill instructor without all the yelling) led them around a few blocks and headed towards a big open pier on the water. That's where all the 'fun' started.

They were at the pier for about 2-3 hours were they were made to go back and forth across it as a team doing different things like bear crawl, wheel barrow, lunges, dead man carries, and many other things. At each end they had to do things like burpees, pushups, or any other thing the leader could think of. All of this with their heavy packs on.

Bear crawling

Wheel Barrow

Smurf Jacks (jumping jacks in the squating position)

Back to Back squats

Dead Man Carries (Ryan is the one carrying in the front)

Burpees! (Ryan's in the front w/ Jack Osbourne next to him)

At this point in time (about midnight) I was pretty chilly and sleepy and a little bit bored watching them go back and forth, so I headed home to bed. Ryan got to have more fun for the next 10 hours. Apparently they trekked up to the Space Needle and did some more things there (including wrestling matches) then went all the way over to West Seattle to Alki Beach where they were lucky enough to have to go into the freezing cold water of the Puget Sound! They did all kind of exercises in the water and eventually headed back downtown to the Great Wheel where I got a call at about 10am asking to come pick them up. Needless to say Ryan is exhausted today! We went straight from the event to one of the guys house where his wife had cooked up breakfast for everyone. After a little food we headed home for some much needed nap time for Ryan!

The Guys before (the one guy just had a baby a week ago)

The Guys after...Ryan looks less than thrilled