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I am pretty confident it will NOT in fact be that difficult. I think you will be disappointed based on what I have read/seen. Sure, they bill it as being real tough. A couple of the guys on my team went to the GoRuck thing a couple of weekends ago in ATL and said it was pretty weak.
Honestly, my take is that you have to understand the difference between military "hard" and civilian "hard." You make a living out of doing asinine stuff and attending schools where you "embrace the suck," and it just puts you in a different mental state from the rest of the crowd. The course is 10 miles, and it says it takes most people 2.5 to three hours. I can only imagine the obstacles won't service hundreds of runners at any given point. I would expect a fair amount of standing around...especially if you are waiting on teammates who you don't want to get out in front of or leave behind.
But, I could be totally wrong too. It might be awful.
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For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the [terrorists] -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.
-D. W. Brogan, The American Character
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