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GET OUTSIDE WITH RUCK MEETINGS "Rucking Meetings Improve Productivity, Relieve Zoom Fatigue, and Burn More Calories than Walking. Ruck meetings have become one of my favorite ways to be a 2-Percenter. They’re just like walking meetings, but better. I started experimenting with rucking meetings during the summer of 2020. This was peak pandemic. I was moving less and incessant phone and video conferences in my home office felt like they were killing my creativity and productivity. What did surprise me was how rucking changed the very nature of the meeting itself and my work afterwards. During the call, I had fewer distractions and was a more engaged listener. I was zoned into the call and not half-listening as I scrolled the internet from my desk (we all do it). I also felt more rejuvenated once I got back to my office. I cranked out more work and the work was more creative." - Michael Easter, best-selling author, 2-percenter Now that it's heating up, there's no better time to get outside, in the real world, and take on a ruck meeting with your coworkers. Hit the link to read more: https://ruck.ly/3yGncNJ #GORUCK #ruckmeetings

D-DAY 80TH ANNIVERSARY But for the history, Normandy would have remained just beautiful French farmland, with a nice view of the English Channel. Yet what an honor to breathe the air here, and to meet the people who converge to celebrate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. We ran 12 separate events, exhaustion and camaraderie abound. This was the biggest, most significant events WEEK we have ever put on. Over 500 of us rucked the miles and lined the streets and sidewalks at the end and waved our flags and tried to make our peace with what happened, and what we owe. Thank you to all who traveled from far and wide, literally all over the globe. The high point for me was for my kids to meet some WWII survivors at Pointe du Hoc. There they were and we just walked over and said hello. Ryan blushed and read Don his bio card. Kids light everyone up and Don couldn’t stop smiling. They won’t be here forever and it’s our turn next, and our kids’ after that. This time and this place for the 80th, it can’t be repeated. It comes and it goes too fast, and then here we are and it’s worth a lot. The past and the future all converge into one moment and our hearts grow stronger, even the pieces we leave behind in Normandy France, the most American place on planet earth. -- Jason McCarthy , Cofounder, GORUCK

See you on the sacred grounds of Normandy. Solid work, brother. --jason