Florida Mud Run, Obstacle and ruck training team.
The best part about the T3 is when the pre-game challenges begin. It's like the hunger games but with burpees! All of the information that is distributed to the class will now be made public, so you can see their challenges over at the live updates section of this website. Here is their first challenge.
The early bird gets the worm, or burpee points in this case. Our current roster of confirmed and registered T3 enlisted are as follows:
Robert D.
Robert T.
Nathan J.
These are the people you want to look for on the live updates. These are the ones that have potential to make or break the team. Many are still on the fenceline on joining and have doubts, which means nothing until they set foot on the beach for lap 0 at 0930, 13 December 2014. So far there are a lot of returning elites that are ready for some continuous learning!
Incredible event shared with some incredible people. MUDRUNREGIMENTFUN!
As you no doubt know from the Goruck updates, five are left. Travis' mind outlasted his body as it was wracked with cramps at the ruck march. Something tells us we haven't seen the last of our badass elites. Not by a long shot.
Unfortunately, Matt Dolitsky did not pass the 5mi beach run in the PT test and has been removed from the event. As is usual with Matt, he is in great spirits and is making the best of his situation with his head held up high. For now he is enjoying a nice night camping under the stars with Carey. Way to make the best of things, were very proud of you Matt!
Travis still remains as far as we know.
Team Regiment elites Matt and Travis will be embarking upon GORUCK Selection 015 just days from now, and like our T3 updates GORUCK has also implemented a live updates system to help you keep track of the madness that will unfold. Keep your browser open on the live updates and enjoy the comfort of your computer chair while an expected 100+ people endure the hardest moments of their life!
We love GORUCK. In fact, we're a proud affiliate of those awesome folks. If you'd like to register for a GORUCK Light, Challenge, Heavy or even Selection, please show your support of the team and register via our affiliate link. Thank you for keeping us in mind.
It's FINALLY here! After two weeks of doing the Ultra Beast, I have finally put my thoughts into words (over 10,000 of them) and really put it out there. Before reading, I recommend reading the lead-in to it from the 2013 Ultra Beast review. Without any more delays, here is my 2014 Spartan Ultrabeast story.
Burpee points (or burpee bucks) is a point system used all throughout the pregame challenges leading up to and through the T3. T3 enlisted can earn burpee points by paying attention to the T3 live updates and the Facebook event page challenges that get periodically posted in the weeks leading up to the actual event.
Great! You've earned burpee points by doing these silly little challenges. Now what? Next you'll be presented with pre-game unlocks. These perk unlocks are unlocked through the pooled burpee points that are submitted by the team to unlock anything that you think your team needs the most. For example, here is the list of perks that the last class unlocked:
That's cool. So what if we have points remaining when we go into the actual event? No problem. Burpee points are used inside the T3 as well. For example, when you are called on to do burpees in a challenge, for each point you cash in you are relieved of doing four (4) of your overall required burpees. It doesn't seem like much but you will appreciate it when the time comes. Other times that burpee points were used during T3 events were to collectively cash in and make certain challenges ruckless such as ladder pushups. You do NOT want to do ladder pushups with your ruck.
So in conclusion, the premise of burpee points is that if you take the challenge seriously, pay attention to detail (like checking on the website), help your teammates out and show that you really want to be a part of the team you will be rewarded.
Starting Thursday, Regiment elites Travis Hoard and Matthew "ironbeast" Dolitsky will take on GORUCK Selection. With an expected 10 out of 200 to finish, they are up against some pretty stacked odds. Best of luck to our most insane of elites!
As is tradition, our initiates must not only go through the trials but they also must endure pre-game challenges before their T3 even begins. These are technically not mandatory to complete, but doing so earns burpee points. These points are used to unlock various perks to make their challenge easier by either lessening the physical torture, giving hints or revealing part of the course agenda to remove some of the unknown aspects of the trials. Typically we've kept these challenges inside the Facebook event page, but what fun is there in only having the initiates know about these challenges? Starting at the December T3, the online challenges will be posted via updates on our T3 Live Updates page. Initiates will have to constantly keep an eye out on that page, because challenges may even be removed after a certain amount of time.
The T3 teaches you to be prepared for some of the huge events out there such as World's Toughest Mudder, Spartan Ultrabeast, GORUCK Heavy and more. Attention to detail is key, as you will learn in some form or another...
