I can fight a guy in a box the size of an elevator.
I can climb a telephone pole and touch the top, go through obstacle courses fourty feet above the ground, and ride zip lines over the forest.
I can, along with three other guys, get a fifty pound weight and a 130-pound human dummy up a hill, down a road and over a 10-foot wall, along with all four of us going over that same wall, without either the weight or the dummy touching the ground, and do it in just over two minutes.
A team of four master instructors can do the same job in 51 seconds. Apparently it's possible to vault a 10-foot wall in a single motion.
I can go into the Gauntlet and get out the other side.
I can do a 7.5-k cross-country run first thing in the morning, with stations in the middle of it, and then do it all over again the next day.
I can walk on broken glass.
I can be bruised, aching and dog tired, and be convinced that I don't have enough left in me to do one more drill, and then do one more drill.
I can do 500 pushups, 600 rowing squats and 5,000 chung choie punches in a 24-hour period.
40 other people can do all of this too, and get each other through it.
I can meet complete strangers on Friday night and say goodbye to them on Sunday like they're my brothers.
3 comments:
Sounds like you had an awesome time! what a challenge! what a great accomplishment. Congratulations, hopefully you'll have energy enough to put up a tent this weekend. because really, the rest of the weekend will only require forearm movements of 90 degrees. from the armrest, to the mouth! hehe
T-H
I;m proud of you, friend!
There is no part of that whole ordeal that sounds even the slightest bit like something that one would want to put one's self through without a million dollar prize and Jeff Probst at the end.
Maybe not even then.
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