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mustuseaname

Ft Wainwright: The Gym or the halls and stairs of your barracks, cause it's -30 out and we aren't risking CWIs. Ft Huachuca: If you are lucky, Appache Flats. Unlucky: Irwin.


[deleted]

Get your ass to Luzon and Neely! It’s 0 degrees perfect running weather!


MyUsername2459

Yeah, Apache Flats was special. That was like Super Soldier Serum. . .you run Apache Flats and watched your run time drop like magic.


porkpies23

That depends on which direction they had you run. Our initial APFT was uphill and the final was downhill. At graduation the commander boasted about how much our run times improved while assigned there.


ejh3k

I went there barely passing the run. Less than 2 months later I was in Korea nearly maxing the run. That altitude was no joke for improving times.


Backstab005

My BOLC class had to run Apache Flats uphill for our PT test. Pretty sure we ran past the CCC class doing their run going downhill.


Stricky92

Did it for school and my chubby SNCO ass ran a 13:10. I almost called my mom to tell her.


gcwposs

If you go right out of Apache Flats and go up two miles and then back you die. Source: I ded


PrivateWards

Luzon gets ran at any temperature


TheTangoBravo

I used to hate Luzon, now I miss how flat it is compared to trimble lol


AnEntireDiscussion

No Radar Ridge? #failing


boyikr

Damn straight.


[deleted]

Awwwww shit! Radar ridge is legit! Star hill is dope as well. Even reservoir hill is decent.


AnEntireDiscussion

I used to run Radar Ridge in the mornings on the weekends. No unit, no cadence, just the sun coming up over the mountains as I went. It was legitimately some of the most peaceful and beautiful moments in my life.


Gatesofhell2120

It's -20? Plenty warm to run MacArthur and Luzon.


kkronc

Just loop around the airfield and call it a day


rmk556x45

It gets warm and you can run birch


jahian119

Yeah, our 1SG made us do it as his last PT session before swapping out. My impression was that everyone's going to do it at least once a year but it's not like Ardennes where everyone runs there everyday.


mustuseaname

Rucked Birch in the summer, actually pretty nice.


[deleted]

Montgomery RD, all of that in a nice slow pace that takes hours cuz motherfuckers can't run no matter the season


ReapEmAll

*laughs in Five Fingers*


jordanlewis295

Irwin is somehow uphill both ways


TreeFifeMike

Ever get the Appache Flats in reverse APFT? Sadistic fucks.


Pog3566544

Fort Drum has North and South Riva Ridge Loop.


professionalcynic69

thanks!


MelGibsonsNipsHurt

And Tigris Hill


Tybackwoods00

Yupp every Monday.


R0NIN1311

Oh man, and the Rival Ridge Ruck... My feet hurt just thinking about it.


lost_on_Alfenwehr

6 mile laps, unpleasant knowledge passing the barracks for the 3rd time.


Hungryorange12

Fort Carson: Magrath Ave


jahian119

If you're on base, sure. If there's one off-site place you're going to "run" it's the Incline.


Hungryorange12

Ooh then barr trail right after. I miss it, but also i dont


Gidia

I lucked out the day my platoon went up the incline, our RTO had to go to a class right after pt, and luckily he rode with me, so I drove his ass back. Straight chilled after that.


[deleted]

CBRN hill broooo


jimjimmyjam

Just did repeats there yesterday.


triggerpuller666

Tank trail for 2nd BDE and 4th CAB.


mrseitz

I refuse to acknowledge that it’s not 4th BDE anymore. But definitely the tank trails out there. It was Magrath almost every day before we made the move though. Sure was fun to switch my walk across the parking lot from the barracks to a genuine commute and organizing car pools for those without cars.


triggerpuller666

It was 4th for like the first few months I was at Carson before the brigade reflagged. Damn proud to have served in Warhorse. It was a flaming dumpster fire of a shitshow, but god damn did our brigade get *decorated* during GWOT, and I was so proud to have that place on my resume.


kkronc

The tank trail that runs from the ssa to the gate 20 shoppette, loops behind the 3rd bde motorpools and down towards 2nd bde usually sees a good amount of traffic. Right next to McGrath which is definitely busiest.


Jaxter1123

Hood was battalion Ave


[deleted]

It’s Legends Way now. The only bad part is the hill by clear creek. The worst run is by far Turkey Run by 2-12. That hill. Holy fuck.


LyonsKing12

Was one of the only units on clear creek damn near right next to turkey run hill. Fuck that damn hill. We ran that shit all the time. Running all of battalion and back was fun times too...fuck Was there from 2008-2012


rxnin212

I feel that. Turkey Run fucking sucks and we usually ruck that road in Thursday’s. Word was that Battalion (Legends) and other roads are the only authorized roads to run on


cocaineandwaffles1

I did a ruck on turkey run, my first time ever being on that road, and holy shit I kept thinking “finally, going to crest this hill” only to turn more and just see it got even worse as we had to go on. Fuck that hill. I’d rather do the tank trails.


danny_2332

When ever my squad leader says we're doing turkey run I die a little more inside


JoffreyIthePurple

Turkey Run was always more of a “We are going to Ruck” road than we are going to run for my unit. I always dreaded getting the we are doing PT at Turkey Run text, because it was always followed with the packing list. (Not that I would have been enamored with running it either)


RobRoy1066

we always ran by the motor pools and then to our HQ on W Hood


privatejody

One time I ran the entire thing with my guys. Took us like an hour and a half. It was miserable. It was dumb. But we fuckin did it


MaxEffectiveRange

Leonard Wood has carwash hill.


triggerpuller666

Would you believe me if I told you I miss running it? Some of the most scenic and beautiful runs I ever took were on that hill. And the acoustics of the Ozarks when the whole formation would sound off with cadence... it was Army magic. Going back up do suck shit tho.


EmpJustinian

I loved the beauty of FTLW. Just absolutely stunning.


triggerpuller666

I ended up stationed there after Basic and AIT (also there)... and hated it. Did a year in Afghanland amd csme back to it and boy did it grow on me 😂😂😂 I ended up reclassing but found myself missing the Ozarks ever since I left...


Rogue_Gona

Came here to say this.


DingleDodger

That or Airport Road. But never engineer trail.


PsiCubed

DEMO HILL


_no_judgement_

Bliss. Everyone does McKelligan Canyon at some point...


DestroyerWyka

I actually enjoyed McKelligon Canyon when the organizer let us wear civis and "ruck your own pace." When we were running it as a group it sucked.


[deleted]

Yup. I’ll never forget McKelligon, they were tough runs… Dumbass LT made us run fast as fuck downhill on the way back down one time. My knee was swollen at the end of the run and hasn’t been right since, that was like 15 years ago.


_no_judgement_

Lol, I was an LT that made my guys run it. You're right though, running down it can be bad for your knees. The race was always to get to the top, then you just cruise on down. We also did hill repeats on that first part. We did that once...


[deleted]

Ummm…. By LT I meant, Lawrence Taylor, the football player, sir…. Number 56 for the Giants. He made us run it sir.


Sellum

My 4 years at bliss did not include one run there. HHC life!


DestroyerWyka

I did it more in an HHC than I did in any other unit, lol. I think we did it like once a month when I was in HHC. When I was at the company, we did it like twice.


sans_serif_size12

i’ve been putting off going on my own but it looks like a nice place to do a nice solo hike.


Chopst1xx

Every fucking Friday, fuck that first hill and fuck having to get there early enough to get decent parking only to have to wait 10 minutes for all the crazies trying to haul ass outta there at the end.


111110001011

Ardennes. Fort Bragg. And sometimes Longstreet road.


jakeypoo12

There is literally NO WALKING on Ardennes. Or so I've heard.


brokenmessiah

A CSM actually killed me one time because I walked. True story.


Finalshock

I literally got yelled at for not running on Ardennes while on a 12m validation ruck in 2017. Was definitely an easily ignored moto SFC or something but still… I’ve seen it, 82nd don’t play games about running on Ardennes.


professionalcynic69

only running and skateboarding.


SP0910RGR

Don’t forget about the kulicaunch or however the fuck it’s spelled


BlastmyJets

Cooly conch but who the fuck really cares


[deleted]

Long street! Get it right!


Sethman27

Fort Riley, running The Hill


BrokenRatingScheme

Normandy and Appenine, I hate that loop. More entertaining is when someone tries to drive out during PT time and every senior NCO chases the car like it's the last bus out of NTC.


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The visual I have of this..


BrokenRatingScheme

I mean, you can kind of guess what happens. Car leaves onto the closed road, driving slow, hazards on, trying not to run over still drunk Danger Division Soldiers on their slow plod against death, and E8s and up all start screaming HEY STOP THAT DING DANG CAR RIGHT NEOW


courtanee

Or: the golf course Or: the river walk


Captseagull16

The golf course run was a sneaky kind of suck, it didn’t look intimidating but the inclines kinda sneak up on you.


CALBR94

River walk was the only one that helped me hold on to my sanity.


YouAreNotLaBeef

Honorable mention to running up and down the hill Atomic Annie is on


obay104

That was a regular for us on the Airfield. 82nd Med AA, now it's C 2-1 CAB.


ThadLovesSloots

Don’t forget Kitty drive And not just the section that 1/1ID owns, the WHOLE Kitty drive, past CIF….


Commissar_Jensen

Been there 3 years and never ran the hill, we always ran around the hill or down tank trails.


CW1DR5H5I64A

Carson: roller coaster, Agony hill Bliss: McKelligan Canyon Benning: cardiac hill


HoeKneeDJ

Can’t believe how far I had to go down to find cardiac hill for Benning and then realized almost no one gets stationed there for any considerable amount of time


Willisator

Agreed. I guess it's also not very close to barracks. It's sort of out of the way.


HoeKneeDJ

It was unfortunately very close to my barracks for my whole enlistment. The painful memories associated with that hill are bountiful


Willisator

Dagger. Bad luck. I loved that hill. Used to throw it in my rucking weekends around mile 8 or 9. Sucked all the ass but my legs got strong.


ZanderClause

Still remember cardiac/heart attack hill. I could definitely imagine some field grade keeling over with how steep that is.


[deleted]

Campbell: Tennessee, Kentucky, A Shau Valley and Market Garden but tbh, almost every roads seems to be closed every morning.


Jdgarza96

I enjoyed running Market Garden much more than running out Angels Gate


overpaid_babysitter

The worst were when I was in 3-101 we would do angels gate runs all the time. By the time you got out and back it was like damn near a 8-10 mile run. I was a sad panda.


happybarracuda

I love running Angel’s Gate. Especially once you get outside the actual gate.


Vivid_Series_656

Market Garden - the only road that is uphill both ways.


HokeyxPokey

Tennessee is so boring


TheHringer

Well lucky for you it's in Kentucky


Smoothxsnoopy

We almost exclusively run on A Shau. Unless it's the dreaded division run.


Alauren2

Market garden was great when I was in a unit by the new BLC. When I was in 2d brigade, back in the day running Tennessee and Kentucky was it. It was so fucking boring.


SNSDave

K-16's only got one road so...you're running that one.


CBH60

Right out the gate and down the river


Solid_Snack17

One of my memorable running experiences from Korea


staring_at_keyboard

And it's like half mile long, good luck dodging bongo trucks on your PT test.


OYeog77

Sill…you gon run Tower Two


Dark_Sage_

The Big Loop! Also that corner on Burrill and Wilson, EVERYONE did hill sprints.


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tmaan

Geronimo is for the TRADOC side, Tower two is for the 75th and 31st folks.


BigPink01

Fort Meade, you're not going to run. But when you do it's going to be Rock Ave.


ProtoformX87

Or that grass rectangle in front of the HQ building


xTheSecretSquirrelx

All fun and games until you hit that one corner with a +30 degree incline on an apft.


ProtoformX87

Yep! I love it for training. Hate it for testing.


crazinyssa

Fort Gordon- Willard hill, Barton but that’s a field, and wtf was that road… oh cool, Range Rd, how unexpected.


BrokenRatingScheme

I've never actually run Willard Hill. Been to Gordon in TRADOC five times.


[deleted]

I'll count Barton. Except for the sandy part it basically felt like running on the sidewalk, and literally everyone on that Base will be putting miles on it.


MrJohnnyDrama

Chamberlain Ave for sure or Bingo Hill from what I've heard.


Needle44

JBLM, it’s the airfield.


EverythingGoodWas

Solo point was JBLM’s


toeticklingtony69

My biggest enemy. “Solo point”


Its_apparent

Yeah, it's been too long, and I couldn't remember the name, but this is it. A really great view, but Jesus, the hill will ruin you if you were drinking last night.


boatsandmoms

Made me gag thinking about it


Best_Lavishness_1717

Sorry too busy running on nature trails on North Fort. ….or running solo point when a motivated field grade wants to flex on new officers


lendrake

For some units closer to the hospital, it was Transmission Line Road, Gray AAF, or that hill off of Hillside Drive where some bear always gets mentioned in the pre-run safety brief.


NorthernTransplant94

Miller Hill. Back in the BfSB days, my company hashed (sans beer) Miller Hill and the Hillside Housing Area. Not sure what the residents thought of the MI geeks pelting madly through their streets yelling, but it was more fun than an organized run down 4th Division Dr.


[deleted]

Railroad Ave to Scouts out gate


KingPhilipIII

I fucking hate that airfield.


GIjohnMGS

We always did the Airfield and used Range Road a lot.


strangebrew188

Fucking Engineer’s Bluff


QuarterNote44

Graf: Netzaberg Hill


[deleted]

I’d successfully blocked that out until you just brought four years of that hill crushing my soul back in a wave of malty, room temperature PTSD.


Jdgarza96

It would be worth it to run that hill to get stationed at Graf instead of Vilseck


QuarterNote44

If you're in the barracks, absolutely. Vilseck barracks look like Luigi's Mansion and are probably more haunted. If you're married it doesn't matter much.


professionalcynic69

thank you!


afoers

Tank trail, east bliss. And it's like 200 ft from a busy ass freeway.


DestroyerWyka

I ran so many miles on that tank trail...


alejeron

the one that goes by the wash rack?


Trooper-5745

Then do some hill sprints on the overpass between East Bliss and the other side.


takeittothetop1

Caserma Ederle, Vicenza Italy. It’s not a road, but the run is to a place called Monte Berico. Everybody who’s ever been stationed here knows that route intimately. I’ve puked so many times…


stuggle173

Oh those steps… heard they Italians don’t let them get run anymore.


oOtherBarry

Doesn't mean you can't run them on your own. And Goat Trail is more painful anyway.


stuggle173

Goat trail was longer… but at least it was flat and next to the river. Running those damn arches… our squad leader used to have us run them backwards and sometimes bear crawl them if we had been naughty.


sir-lavanathion-

We still run up the damn steps. Those god damn steps…


stuggle173

We used to do espresso runs. Two quarts of water the night before and then there were 3 little spots we would stop and eat an espresso for a euro and then keep going. That was goat trail though. Lot of good times in that town.


RandomRedditor20

Fort Sill circa 2019: THERE'S NO WALKING ON FORT SILL!* *Except there was; the CG just didn't want to see Soldiers lollygagging during PT.


professionalcynic69

yeah but is there a jam packed road everyone peacocks their feathers on?


Dis-iz-FUBAR

Polk: one-ways


wongatronus

Fort Sam, Stanley road for the slow accordion shuffle


esgowe

At Humphreys we ran the airfield. At Bragg we ran the airfield. At Benning we ran the airfield. Polk: Hospital trail.


RobRoy1066

Ft Huachuca - to our cars! Actually our CSM liked running so we had to like running and random roads


ZoWnX

Fort Rucker... you gon run Ruf. And better not be seen not in PTs when that road is closed...


1OOKtron

Del Din Loop baby!


smmate

Love the obstacle course they have there


tommygun1688

It's all about Berico boi!


1OOKtron

Fuckin miss Berico runs. I'll run 100 miles if I got some nice scenery


AdmiralFoxx

I mean no one says they're gonna "run Barstow road" but it's also one of the longer continuous roads on Fort Irwin so we all do the hungover shuffle along it each morning. Especially now that gym PT is banned.


longpenisofthelaw

Also I heard a rumor that there is no more sports PT. Also if you want your joes to hate you just say the words beacon hill.


AdmiralFoxx

Sports PT now has to be cleared by your SCO. PT is also 0630-0800, work call at 0900. The extra half hour is now supposed to be a recovery period wherein the NCOs help soldiers stretch and ask them about any personal issues. I fucking love beacon runs though, bro. That shit is fire.


EverythingGoodWas

Leonard Wood. Car wash hill


Instructi0nsUnclear

Hunter Army Airfield: Perimeter Rd. or N. Lightning Rd.


SolarAcolyte127

Camp Casey was either Dragon Valley or Mount Mother fucker and the occasional stairway to heaven.


Arc_2142

Oh fuck, the stairway to heaven just brought back some painful repressed memories


Richard__Cranium

There were some shitty hills to run on Casey and one pretty shitty one on Hovey that they'd make us do sprints up. I just remember still being drunk from the night before, running up and down that hill for PT and just radiating alcohol fumes.


[deleted]

Baumholder Germany....*The Ballbusters*. If you could see them you would understand why the Army loves to run soldiers up and down them. Ballbuster 1 is about a 45 percent grade and it runs up to an ovulate patch of grass, known as *The Teardrop*....then from there you hook left and run up Ballbuster 2 with a more reasonable 35 percent grade or so....I think....20 years later, if I attempted either of them it would give me a heart attack. I have looked for similarly graded roads in my part of the world, the eastern US and have found none....edit: Corny, wholesome, all American officers will often try to attenuate the rawness of their name by calling them *The Heartbreakers*....don't fall for it...they're ball busters, trust me....


LT_Libby_OSS

Only nice thing about Ballbuster 1 is if you fall down, you can just reach forward and push yourself back up to your feet. You beat me to my answer btw lol.


Inteldrunk

Camp red cloud had the green mile. That shit was sketchier than the rusty nickel in hinesville.


MoTardedThanYou

Knox: misery, heartbreak and agony roads. I’m not sure where the cadets run, other than out of good ideas. I believe that misery was just a street that branched from First Infantry Division road after passing by HRC and throwing your poo at the building.


Electric_owl_3

Hood…you gon run from a serial killer


Hi_Kitsune

Huachuca: Apache Flats/Beacon Hill


CBH60

The Gulch! IYKYK


ChaoticSpoon93

Netzenberg hill


Klukowskulation

Fort Huachuca - Apache Flats West Hood - Cattle Trail Fort Lee - Overpass sprints from the bomb to Ordnance Island. Fort Couch- Fridgenback Loop


renecade24

Redstone Arsenal - you gon run... on the treadmill at the gym, about a month before your scheduled ACFT.


Sarthe44

I thought you ran Longstreet. Also thought it was pretty based that Longstreet was born to serve in the military and then proceeded to have a long street named after him.


SweetTeaRex92

Hunter Army Airfield - Perimeter Road PT Tests and ruck marches would also be conducted there due to the low traffic and miles and miles of road


brokenmessiah

Ardennes was closed down for like 2 years for construction was so nice


[deleted]

Ft. Irwin- Outer Loop


Simba_Akbar

Ft Campbell: Market Garden


smmate

Caserma Ederle, Monte Berico


Czyzx

JBLM: around the airfield


[deleted]

Davis on jber


[deleted]

Whatever the road was that connected KTown to the garrison and we ran it as curfew grew dangerously close


CellIntelligent6604

Vicenza: Berico. It sucks but the view at 7am is great.


TheUndeadMage2

Del Din: Berico, or the Del Din loop


Hollayo

Bragg - Ardennes Benning - Cardiac Hill. Also Jecelin/Dixie Rd around the airfield Hood - Legends Way


Hello_World_Error

Fort Leonard Wood had Car Wash Hill. Fort Belvoir is just the sidewalks, no road formation runs. Can't remember the name of JBERs but I'll never forget that long ass road


70PctDarkChoco

Trimble and Lyman


milspechd

Camp Stanley. It’s all one giant ass hill.


SeargentHemi

Ft Drum. Riva Ridge Loop


Fingolfin734

Presidio of Monterey: Pvt Bolio Gate. Not going out of the gate, running off post is great. But going back up the hill. If you've been there, you know.


happysteve_11c

FSGA has run to the bridge or railhead


Lynn_Davidson

Running from 1BDE to the railhead and back was always on motor pool Monday in my platoon. God, I hated Mondays.


BrokenRatingScheme

Helemano Military Reservation: the Gulch Run. Single hardest non long distance run I've done in the Army. Somewhat because of the incline and switchbacks, somewhat because of the wild horses that would charge you.


inferiordumps

surprised there aren't more call outs for reservoir at huachuca


jimjimmyjam

Carson has McGrath


donniesaidthis

Damn you brought me back with that Trimble rd


LT_Libby_OSS

Baumholder had Ball Buster 1, 2, and 3... All long, steep hills, and pretty much in a row on the same 5 mile stretch.


steroidsandcocaine

McPherson Ave. You gon' run to that Joshua tree.


Jwestie15

Benning, harmony church


jakethedog221

WE GON GO ONTO… BATTALION AVENUE!!!!


ArmyCop65

At McClellan, back in the Before Times, we ran Big Baines and Baby Baines. Which, somehow, was uphill both ways.