Wow! What a day. We all got up and started getting ready but it took longer than we thought. We took of around 6:20am and found out that part of the ruck march was on the road we needed to take to get out of the park. There was a huge line of ROTC students trying to qualify. We had to drive really slow and a couple of times a couple different students stumbled which freaked us all out. We looked and looked for our team but couldn't find them. When we talked to one of the traffic directors they indicated that these were the ones that were toward the end. We were dying to find out and I was freaking out that we wouldn't make it to the finish line in time. We finally got out of the park and onto the road where we had to stop again while some of them crossed the road into the other park.
When we got there we realized we had missed all of them. Paul and Natalie had taken third place for Coed in the Ruck March!! It was really exciting. We waited around while everyone rested, had some snacks, and tried to recover from the nine mile ruck. Then we followed Paul, Luke, and their partners to a "Lane." They were great about letting family run around and take pictures. We even found out later that coaches or family members could actually run behind them in the lanes to push them on and coach them. Alan, Hannah, and I all had cameras so we spread out so we could get them at each of the stations. This first lane was interesting because there were more stations than we realized. Luckily Hannah figured out that the tomahawk throw was further down and ran down to get pictures.
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