That sucks you couldn’t get out today and aren’t sleeping well.

BTW, I think we have us another guinea pig for the programming. He doesn’t lift or anything so he will be a good baseline for the untrained.

Every ruck march I ever did in a training environment with a time standard was done in one of the following two ways:

1) The person responsible for certifying that the trainees met the time standard did the march with the trainees.

2) Graders waited at a finish line with a stop watch that was started at the beginning of the march.

The only times the second option was used were training events organized by a battalion sized element or larger. These groups will be small enough that the leader of the group should be responsible for knowing if you actually did 6 miles or not and if it actually took less than 2 hours from start to rally, or not, and he should know because he did it with you.

Could you have your witnesses chill at a finish line with a stop watch? I mean I guess. That's up to OP.

@rockhard13F

Please update your OP to clarify hiking elevation gain standards corresponding to pace.

Based on the new op, I must have missed when Provisional rating got eliminated. When did that happen?

You are looking at the wrong thread.  This was the original thread.  The Provisional rating was added in the guidelines thread.

Here.

D'oh!!  Sorry!

if there are two competing threads with different sets of standards, might want to request a lock on this one to avoid confusion like I had?  @Ben

Good call.

@GooseFucker

errr…

FatherBoo…

ah...

@DK-Prof

Lock this one up?

I am not sure if I am flattered or offended!  :-)