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12 miles in 3 hrs. with 55 lbs. is not necessarily good enough.
If you are doing it on paved roads, shoulders, or hard packed trails, your times will be significantly longer at Mackall in the soft sand, should you get that far.
If you have access to a sandy, muddy, cross-country route and can make 13-14 minute miles, you would be a lot better off. Part of it is physical training and part of it is hardening and conditioning feet, shoulders, etc.
The correlation between ruck times and PT scores and selection rates is posted elsewhere here for you to search out and read at your convenience.
Make sure that the form of your push-ups and sit-ups are good as well.
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De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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