Vermont Ultra Beast officially announced!

Hell, it's about time.

The event that defined so many of us out of the gaping maw of the mountain has once again opened itself up for another year of transformation.  If you sign up before January 30th, use code RACEVT to get 20% off of your registration.  Trust me, you'll need it.

Other things you'll need is a bit of perspective.  You can find three separate years of perspective from yours truly here, here and here for 2013-2015 respectively.  

Not one to read people's personal experiences?  How about a practical guide to conquering the Vermont Ultra Beast.

Some curious things to note:

1. It is no longer called the "Ultra Beast Weekend"
2. The location (traditionally Killington) is TBD, but still in VT.

GORUCKxIngress information revealed

That was quick.  

First and foremost, GORUCK will be out at the Orlando anomaly event and they will be hosting a challenge and a light event!  Here is some brief information below.  Keep reading if you want to save 25% off on the event.

The challenge will be called Stealth Ops, and it will be a lot like a challenge.  The score of this event will not contribute towards the anomaly, however.  

The Urban Ops event will be modeled after the light and the score will count towards the anomaly.  

More information can be found here.  Now this is where Team Regiment plays a role...

Seeing as Orlando is our hometown, and we're heavily involved in both Ingress and GORUCK, we will be hosting plenty of cross faction workout missions at Jay Blanchard Park in the months prior to the event.  We want each and every player out there to be fully prepared for both the mental and physical challenges met at any GORUCK event.  We are closely working with GORUCK to become more involved in terms of official meetups and perhaps some special gear and ingame items to give away as well.  Most importantly, once registration for these events goes live, check back at our page.  We will include instructions on saving 25% off at these events.

Upcoming T3s and Ingress

A couple of updates.

First off, the next T3 will be in Orlando as a classic.  What's a classic?  That's a T3 that is held at the original location that it began in and is modeled off of the original four laps that circulated through neighborhoods, rec centers, pools and parks.  The estimated time of this is sometime in the April timeframe, so keep your eyes peeled for that!

Next up is Ingress.  Many of our teammates are ENL players of Orlando, Tampa and Miami.  Luck would be upon us that Orlando has been chosen for this year's Obsidian anomaly series not as a satellite location but a primary one.  Alongside these events is the GORUCK Ingress event as well.  For many of us, GORUCK is what got us into Ingress.  You can definitely plan on Team Regiment having a close and active participation in this event that will benefit anybody registering for this event.  No definite word has been given to us yet as to weather or not there will be a GRT event here, but history has shown us that GORUCK shows up at every primary anomaly event.  In the likely scenario that this event is held, you can expect a team regiment discount of at least 25% to anybody interested in showing up!   More on this will be posted in the future!

Coming soon...

Too many people have floundered at the swim portions of an OCR...

Additional T3 Pictures

Kim from Etched Moments in Time photography was kind enough to do our event photos for free.  If you'd like to see all 400+ of them, head over to her Facebook here!  

Congratulations to our new Elites!

What an adventure this day has been. Of the 23 who signed up, we eventually had 13 show up. But of those dedicated 13, all of them finished! It was incredibly fun to finally be back in the class again and in the suck with all of you! It was every bit as awesome as I envisioned it. Cadre Nate earned his spot in the regiment hall of fame with his amazing work today, and we can definitely expect to see some of his cruel and unusual work in future events as well.

Special thanks to our photographers and live updaters Donna, Kimberly and co-cadre Benjamin for volunteering to put in the very busy work of keeping everybody watching us on Facebook and on the live updates entertained and informed.

With that said, it is a honor and a privilege to announce the finishers of the winter T3:

New elites -
Sara B
K.j. B
Rick H

Returning elites -
Claborn N
Tanner
John L
Tripp P
Neil M
Joe G
Tracy T
Ethan H
Kris V
Jeff H

A force is awakening... can you feel it?

Only two days remain until the T3.  The winter T3 is one of the most feared T3s, and starting late Friday night, you can be a part of the action from the comfort of your own home.  Our live updates page will feature updates throughout the day on the event, so keep your eyes peeled on that page and be sure to refresh the page often.  

We may even have a periscope account set up for the event!  More on that later...

David Moore, Regiment Elite

It's no secret that our Elites are some outstanding and motivating athletes.  That fact is underscored by the consistent accomplishments of our team and the amazing lives they live.  This post is another highlight of such an accomplishment.  In 2015, Regiment Elite David Moore made a promise to complete 50 laps of the BattleFrog extreme events taking place around the nation.  After many events he accomplished his goal, one star at a time!

One of the rare shots of this guy not smiling.

Here are some stats about his journey to 50 stars:
• 230+ miles
• 12.5 miles of wreckbag carries
• 7 miles of jerrycan carries
• 1300 obstacles

Winners of the free GORUCK

As promised, we raffled off two free entries to a GORUCK challenge or light of the winner's choosing.  Contestants were placed into the pool if they purchased a shirt from our store through the month of November.  Big congrats goes out to Regiment Elites Ethan and Tanner for scoring their free entries!  

Will there be any perks to those who get a shirt from our store in December?

Only one way to find out, it seems.

Deals and more

As the holiday shopping season officially begins, you can expect some awesome deals to be popping up in the ruck/ocr scene.  For one, MudRunFun has created a compilation of OCR discounts.  Also, GORUCK is now offering their gear for up to 40% off!

Only three days remain to score a free entry to any GORUCK, as well!