A great area to play a game
A game called 'it pays to be a winner'
Perks!
The verdict is in. The team is unlocking the following perks.
- Helium Filled Rucks
- Point booster
- Stress card (1)
Tick tock...
Two hours until perk unlock requests are due...and not a single peep. I guess they want to enter the event with a lot of points! It's a bold strategy. Let's see if it pays off.
Heads up
Failure to get every country correct on the geography test means 100 burpees from each person. Better study!
Mandatory gear list and other important info!
Hello T3 attendees,
As we close in on the big event, the class no doubt shares a mix of emotions from apprehension, excitement and outright fear. Normally big races out there feature a ‘race bible’ similar to what you are about to receive. Since this event trains you for those kinds of events, it means it’s time to listen up and pay attention to every bit of detail given to you.
Don’t be late. This is crucial. Prepare to get a flat tire, last-minute errands, your cat catching fire, or whatever else would cause you to be late. For every 5 minutes somebody is late, the entire team must do 30 burpees. If you are 30 minutes late, you will be disqualified from the event. No exceptions, no refunds. Better to learn this lesson at a $49 event than to learn it at an event you paid ten times as much to get in to. So if you plan on not showing up and you don’t tell anybody, you will be on many people’s shit lists. In order for this to be easy on everyone, we’ve got to keep this chaos somewhat organized and on time.
Exact location of the starting point is at
6630 Van Buren St
New Port Richey, FL
10:15am
Bring water and nutrition. Bring at least 2L of water (bladder or Nalgene bottle) with you to refill throughout the event. You will not finish the event if you fail to replenish your lost calories either. You’ve got a small break between laps to eat and refill. If you don’t, you will not make it through this event.
Plan outside the event. Are you riding with others? If so, what’s going to happen if you DNF? Will you sleep in the car? Drive home? What about when you finish? You just went through hell and you plan on driving back home right afterwards? Will you be awake enough to drive? Plan for these things, please. We’re not on the hook for your lack of prudence. Have a plan B. Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Time between laps. You will be awarded a 9 (5 plus your bonus 4) minute break in between laps, and a 20 minute break after lap 2 (the 6mi run). If you’re lined up and ready to begin the next lap before your allotted time is up, those leftover minutes can roll over towards another lap of your choice. Failure to be ready after the allotted time will have a deduction from future lap breaks. So have your nutrition, changes of clothes, bug spray, etc laid out for you to access and be done with efficiently.
Bonus lap. There will be an OPTIONAL bonus lap happening at 9:42am. Sometimes people are rewarded for doing this, other times they are just punished for no reason. It’s a gamble.
By 10:15am, you must be ready. Here’s your first test. Many endurance events require you to be organized right off the bat, so this will prepare you for just that. You must be lined up in alphabetical order based on your last name. Your ruck must be on the ground in front of your feet, handle facing away from you with your reflective bands attached to the ruck. To the right of your ruck on the ground must be your ruck weight. To the right of your ruck weight on the ground must be the remainder of your mandatory gear. To the right of your gear must be your hydration source. Team gear must be at the end of either side of the line of people. You must be lined up somewhere on the sidewalk near the entrance to the recreation center (don’t block traffic please). Be in swim gear, because we’re going to the pool right afterwards. Do not screw this up.
Now, let’s talk about the mandatory gear list.
Each individual person must bring the following:
· Gloves
· Headlamp
· Reflective belt on the ruck
· Your most important race medal, headband, bib etc.
· Index card with any medical issues that an EMT would need to know just in case something goes wrong, in addition to an emergency contact.
The team as a whole must bring the following:
· The ‘Operation’ board game. No missing pieces.
· A magazine page cut-out of a car that’s worth over $100,000.
· A picture of David Hasselhoff with everyone’s name signed on the back. Make it fancy!
The team must unlock any perks (if they want to) no later than Friday at noon.
After the event, we will be selling Team Regiment shirts ($20) and flags ($40) to those interested in picking up some swag!
Current team point total right now is 66
Challenge #7 - Lucky Sevens
Time to branch out!
Even though this is one of the smaller classes (surprise, but winter T3s are always the smallest), this will be a challenge that can be done by a lot more people than usual.
This challenge is one that CANNOT be physically done by people who are already registered. Instead, friends of those registered must submit (or share from your feed) a video to the event group. Here are the rules they must follow:
- One submission per person (NOT per registered person. 1 person = 1 video).
- Video must be of them doing 30 burpees.
- Must state in the video who they are doing the video for and that it's for the T3.
- Whoever they're doing the video for will earn one point.
- No more videos accepted past January 25th at noon.
Now, videos can be submitted from any location. However, if any of these bonus locations are filmed in the video, some bonuses get dished out. Once one of the locations get submitted, the bonus gets spent and cannot be done for that location again. Points are given to the person they're submitting the video for.
- At the beach - +1 point
- In the snow - cadre must submit his own 30 burpee video
- In front of a statue - +1 point
- In another country - cadre must submit a 3 mile run
- At a state border - +2 points
- At a dock at a lake - +1 point
- With mountains in the background - +1 point
If ALL SEVEN (get it, challenge 7?) bonus locations get submitted, the cadre will roll a six sided dice, and whatever number rolls up is the number of bonus points the whole team gets. This is the week where you may want to bring other people into the class, by the way. Never before has a challenge had this high of a potential for earning points!
Points, perks, and other vital information
As of now, the team of six have accumulated a total of 55 points. It's low (for now) but they can certainly make those 55 points work. Challenges are becoming more team-oriented in order to force some dialogue between those registered. So with that little bit of info out... here are the perks for this T3!
Next up is the geography test! The last T3 saw the first ever satisfactory completion of the geography test. Granted, it was done by one person and they were allowed one country wrong... it still technically counted as a completed challenge. Will this team be able to study and correctly name all of the blank countries in this map?
For those counting, there are 31 blank countries on the map. To avoid confusion, you do not have to remember the two Caribbean island nations just southeast of Puerto Rico, nor do you have to remember the tiny rendition of the Turks and Caicos islands, but you do need to remember where Trinidad and Tobago is. Oh, and don't forget about the Falkland islands!
Each person can only name a maximum of 11 countries during the T3, so you can't rely on one single person to carry the team in this... just three.
This test will be administered to the team when they are at their absolute worst during the lap of intellect. That is a promise.
Also, on the matter of the lap of intellect, the trivia subject will be.... America! General trivia subjects like history, government, war, technology, etc. will be given. Now since these aren't a singular topic that you can look for on Wikipedia, answering trivia questions will be a little different this time. Instead of announcing the subject of the question and then asking for 2-3 people who feel confident in answering something on the subject, the entire team will be able to chime in on an answer. Be careful, though. The first answer that the instructor hears will be taken as the final answer... so it may be wise to delegate one person to do the loud talking.
Good luck.
Challenge # 6 - Artsy Fartsy
We're almost two weeks away from party time! This challenge is going to be a 'fun', so let's dive right in.
Right away, you're not going to earn points with this challenge. Instead, you're going to be given a choice if you succeed - one of two perks specific to this challenge will be unlocked:
Do you take those precious four minutes of reprieve in between laps? Or do you rally your team to catch up on some of the challenges that have since expired? Think very hard on this one!
- Now, here is how you unlock the perk. You must count by running!
- In a route that is at least three miles long, you must submit a run where your tracked path draws either "1", "2", or "3".
- In order for this challenge to be completed, all three numbers must be submitted IN ORDER (that means talk to your team and make sure you don't screw it up).
- This must be done before noon on the 17th of January.
- One entry per person.
- To unlock BOTH perks, count all the way up to six.
Challenge #5 - Chilly new year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
May 2018 bring you all joy and fun...except for the 27th of this month! Hopefully that day will be absolutely frigid! To prepare you for the potential cold, you've got a quick challenge to do by the end of this week before temperatures rise again. You must complete TWO of the following exercises before January 6th at noon, and the temperature at the time of the exercise must be at or below 55F.
- 30 burpees outdoors in under 2 minutes
- At least 4 mile run outside
- Jump in a pool or lake (please get warm and dry immediately after!)
Completing two of these will give you a point. Completing all three before the due date will get you an extra point! Pretty simple challenge, eh?
Keep up the good work everyone!
Merry Christmas!
As promised, a Christmas gift is due!
All of those who have bravely registered already are given THREE points to their name! Also, if three challenges are completed from now until new years, the perks will be revealed early!
Challenge #4 - The 12 days of Ruckmas
We're a week away from Christmas! To many, that means lots of eating and consequently.. lots of pounds added! The T3 requires you to have a rucksack filled with 18% bodyweight, which means every pound will be returned to you in a mean way come January. To let that idea sink in (I know, I'm a holiday buzzkill just roll with me for a minute here), we're going to do a special Holiday challenge! Your video submission will comprise of either a countdown or a count-up of the following exercises while donning your ruck:
- 12 burpees
- 11 jumping jacks (4-count)
- 10 push-ups
- 9 mountain climbers (4-count)
- 8 eight-count bodybuilders
- 7 flutter kicks (4-count)
- 6 stationary lunges (2-count)
- 5 squats
- 4 seven-count manmakers
- 3 shoulder ruck presses
- 2 situps
- 1 loud "HO HO HO"!
Each exercise can have no more than 15 seconds break in between. Let's talk rewards. Submitting this challenge before Chrstmas at 11:59pm will result in you earning FIVE (!!!) points. No challenge has ever rewarded an individual this many points before, and these will definitely benefit you later on. Think of this as that moment when the professor winks and nods that something may or may not be on the exam. If you haven't registered yet, you can still submit your challenge video and be given your points as soon as you register. Submit your challenge in the event page or email your video if you fancy that, too.
Here is a video of the challenge:
Challenge #3 - All about you!
This challenge won't be physical whatsoever, yay!
The T3 is a not only a trial for our current and aspiring members, but also a celebration of them. We strongly believe in getting stronger every day and this event aims to be the embodiment of that. So what challenge #3 consists of is simple... tell us about yourself! Here are some good talking points:
- What was your hardest event to date?
- Kind of tying into the first question, but what was your biggest struggle you've overcome?
- What do you expect to get out of the T3?
- How did you hear about this team, and what do you expect from it?
- What are your goals after this?
- Why do you do this? (I'm sure you've been asked this hundreds of times by now)
Now, you don't want to give short answers as if you're answering a survey obviously. Just be yourself and have fun! Those who do this (there's no due date) will get a quick and easy point!
Also, anybody who registers from now until December 17th will automatically enter the T3 with three points :)
Pregame challenge #2 - Run!
Challenge 2 is going to be as basic as it gets.... you run!
The T3 will have a mandatory 6 mile run. There will be a timehack for that run which will be the average of the entire team's finish time. To acclimate you for this, challenge 2 will be fairly simple in that you must track and complete a 6mi run without pausing at all. Here are the rules:
- No treadmills
- No due date
- Completion grants you 2 points
- One submission per person
- If six submissions occur before December 15th, perks are revealed and become unlockable
- Submit your challenge to the event page.
Pregame challenge #1 - Burpees!
As this event helps train you for some of the other big events out there, getting comfortable with burpees is a vital mindset to be in! Instructions are in the video. Enjoy! Be sure to submit all challenges to the event page!
Begin transmission of the Winter T3!
Five people have registered! This means that coming very soon will be your optional pre-game challenges! Remember to submit your challenges to the event page to get credit!
Photos!
Now that we've got a good internet connection, you may check out photos of this event at our Facebook page!
It was an amazing day, and it was always a pleasure to see everybody overcome such daunting struggles. You're all truly an inspiration and I hope you take these lessons to heart. Earn your rest, but keep moving forward! This is just the beginning!
This is the end!
Time for patches and a big congrats! Start time 8:48 end time 9:37.
43 burpees total
Twelve dice rolls total. They're cranking them out now and then they're done!