From www.RagnarokTraining.com Rugged Maniac Preparedness Chart: The Rugged Edition! Do you think you have what it takes to tackle the Rugged Maniac? How much training have you done? It's time for a gut-check. It's time for some soul-searching. It's time to assess your preparedness for the Race. Check out the Preparedness Chart and see how much extra training you need to put in before the big show. Then hop over to www.RagnarokTraining.com and find out how to do it.

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• This person is too busy updating their Facebook status with the
names of all the foul-villains they slew that day to worry about
the miniscule trifles of the real world. In truth, they will
probably never hear about the race; their lifestyle is so lacking
in activity that events like this never make it past the spam-
filters in their mind.
• And even if the power to their house were cut, and they were
forced to venture-forth into the real world, exercise is a
foe this super-hero could not vanquish because to them just
wiping their bottom is a max-exertion event (which is
something that can only be accomplished once in a fort-night).

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• The person who signs up from the couch and figures that their
high school football training 20 some odd years ago will carry
them through the race, even though their exercise since then
has just been arm-chair-quarterbacking.
• This person probably won't even show up to the race, and if by
some strange stroke of fate they do show up, their chance of
ever making it out of sight of the starting line is somewhere
around slim to none.

7. Mommy, I Want T Go H
o ome.
You Were Right, It is Scary
Out in the world.
• The weekend warrior who exercises sometimes, but not
consistently enough to build any endurance, and definitely has
no sport-specific training.
• After a few obstacles, this person realizes that life itself is much
too tough of a struggle and decides to take an early trip to the
beer tent to drown their sorrows and think about warmer times:
like cuddling up on the couch with a pint of ice cream and hot
cocoa.

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 The person who trains for the race only from a bicycle, stair
stepper, or treadmill. They build their endurance, but do no
sport-specific training, and altogether fail to do any stability or
reaction training.
 During their first run through the forest or down a loose-dirt
hill, they roll their ankle because their treadmill lacked that
uneven terrain setting that only Gods treadmill has. As this
person looks at the twisted mess that used to be their ankle,
they wonder if they'll make their Tuesday Reiki class or not.

11. M ongo. Run?
Mongo. No. Run.
You. Like. Mongo?
M ongo. L You.
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You. Belong. M ongo. Now.
 This piece of abstract art that seems to be a representation of
both man and woman sharing the same physical space on this
Earth is not to be trifled with. Similarly, Shim does not trifle
with endurance exercise.
 While the sheer power of this science experiment may be strong
enough to reverse the rotation of the earth, it’s lack of
endurance training and total aerobic capacity means that
finishing the race will require two oxygen tanks, a 48-hour time
extension, and a 32-oz slab of Angus beef cooked less than rare
waiting for them at the finish line.

13. I signed up for a 5K ,
What is this wall doing here?
Climb it?
Come on, these chicken wings
Cannot even get the pickle jar open.
 This 120 lb whisper in the wind cannot even hold his bowels
long enough to finish the race, and now you are asking him to
hold the weight of his body over a pit of mud? All the energy
gels and super-goo in the world could not make that happen.
 While this person may be able to run further than your
neighbors Prius could make it on a tank of gas, the total power
output of this animated skeleton does not even measure on a
scale when compared to the leg drive your 90-year grandmother
has to unleash to get off her toilet in the morning.

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B H Come E
ut ow verybody
And Their Grandmother B eat M e?
IM ean T hat Guy Over T here
Doesn't H ave Any Arms Or L egs,
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What Gives?
 The person who only did the individual workout, or something
similar. This person took the first step towards training for the
race: doing sport-specific training. However, because they
limited themselves to the gym, and didn't apply themselves to
real obstacles, their training didn't fully prepare themselves for
what was to come. So, while they are able to just finish the
race, they don't actually excel at it.
 These are the people who make it to the dance, but spend the
night staring at the prom queen from the back row of the
bleachers, wondering why she won't walk back there to ask him
to dance.

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Here, H M T
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W hile I K Your Girl.
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 This is the team that planned for the race. They did their individual
training to build their strength and endurance. They showed up to the
team sessions to learn how to apply their bodies to the obstacles, and
bond as a team. They specifically prepared their bodies for the
challenge to come, and so succeeded when it was time to perform.
 Come to the team trainings, and you will find yourself in this category.
When you finish the race, 99% of the other people there will look at
you and envy you. They will envy your physical and mental toughness,
your endurance, your determination, your dashing good looks;
everything about you. The rest of the night, you'll be the most popular
person at the after party and you'll describe how your training was
tougher than the race, and everyone will listen in amazement at your
war stories, and rejoice with laughter at your jokes. Your motto will be
"We came, we saw, we conquered....well we conquered everybody
except those "people" in the next category.”

19. That Wasn't A Race.
That W Recess At K
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Lucifer J Rose Out Of T E
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• Individual training gets you to the table. Team training means you get served
first. Completing the practice Maniacs means that you hunt and eat dragons
for dinner. Sitting down and eating dinner with the common folk would just get
in the way of your evening sparring matches with polar bears.
• This person came to the race, unpacked his belongings, and proceeded to
dominate the racecourse, even though he was blindfolded, used only one arm,
and had a refrigerator strapped to his back. While the second place winners
are telling war-stories about their paper cuts and office deadlines, this person
is quietly planning his attack for the Spartan Beast, wondering if it will be the
challenge he is looking for, the race that makes him break a sweat.
• This is not someone who was born. This is someone who was created. Someone
who was forged by hot molten steel to stand when all others fall. This is the
one who is training for survival. Not to survive a race, but to survive Ragnarok.