Matt in TN Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 8 hours ago, mattmann said: Thanks. Got mine yesterday actually. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Great! See you soon - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlp1911 Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 My son and I completed in the 5k on Saturday. I want to thank Matt and his staff for a great match. Everything was ran efficiently and the SOs were professional. The stages were well thought out and provided a well rounded test of skill. We had a great time and hope to be back next year. For anyone on the fence about competing in one of these, do it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 10 hours ago, mlp1911 said: My son and I completed in the 5k on Saturday. I want to thank Matt and his staff for a great match. Everything was ran efficiently and the SOs were professional. The stages were well thought out and provided a well rounded test of skill. We had a great time and hope to be back next year. For anyone on the fence about competing in one of these, do it! Thank you for the kind words, sir - and I'm glad you and your son had a good time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 Everyone: I am physically ill over this and I cannot express to you how sorry I am, but I found a fairly major error in the scores this afternoon. The short explanation is that my spreadsheet that calculates net run time did not take into account the wait times on Stage 6 and 7. This was 100% my error and the lovely ladies helping me do the scoring were not at fault at all. While I was correcting this error I also improved the accuracy of the net run time calculations to include partial minutes instead of rounding off to the nearest whole minute. Some of the scores were close enough that this mattered. Unfortunately, this changes three of the trophies I handed out yesterday. Logan Dudley was the true 1st Place Race Class winner and Greg Reynolds should have been 2nd Place Race Class. Trevor Saunders was the true 1st Place Combat Class. Logan, Greg, and Trevor - I'll have new trophy glasses made and ship them to you if you'll email me your addresses. Bryan Ray, Logan, and Greg - please keep the trophy glasses I already gave in error with my sincere apologies for the mistake. Top Grunt and Top Amazon results did not change. 5k Results did not change. Again, I can't express how sorry I am for this mistake and will do my best to be sure it (and the faulty scale SNAFU) never happens again. Please do look over your scores and don't hesitate to let me know if anything else doesn't look right. "Stage 8" in Practiscore is your net run time in minutes (NOT "seconds" like it says). The other stages should be fairly self-explanatory. 5k Results are here: https://practiscore.com/results/new/52965 10k Results are here: https://practiscore.com/results/new/53116 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 (edited) Enough bad news. Here are the 15k results. My ROs are highlighted in yellow because they deserve special recognition. They had to run the 10k and then only had 15 minutes to reload and regear before running the 5k. Everyone else got a couple meals, a shower, and a full night's rest before doing it again. The people highlighted in green ran Combat Class, but in the 15k challenge there was no class provision so they had to go head to head against the Race Class folks but with 25%+ of their bodyweight on their backs. But every single one of you are badasses to the extreme. Edited March 20, 2018 by Matt in TN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 Here's one of the coolest match videos I've seen yet: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 Pictures are up! Feel free to use these however you wish, but please give a photo credit to my wife, Lisa Stennett, as the photographer when you do. ESPECIALLY if you use them for commercial reasons. More to come - https://www.flickr.com/photos/lisastennett/albums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 (edited) I had many people wanting to see how they did against people their own age, so I collected VOLUNTARY age data during registration and tried to think of a way to present it that would make sense. There are two problems with this data: 18 out of the 81 people that ran did not give me their age so I left them out, and Combat Class is thrown together with Race Class in this data. But knowing all that - here's what I came up with. Knowing your own age and times/scores you should be able to figure out where you fell in this range. Here's the 5k data summary. 10k is in the works. Edited March 20, 2018 by Matt in TN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 Here's the 10k age data with the same caveats: only 55 out of the 72 competitors gave me their ages (so the others are left out of this data) and Combat Class and Race Class are mixed together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 I saw several of you frustrated on the course because you did not finish (DNF) a course of fire before your time was up. Here's some data to put that in perspective - you were not alone! I know it hurts to not finish, but from looking at these numbers I think the difficulty level was about right this year. Even better - we had a very similar VTAC stage (but actually easier) last March and 62% of the people could not finish it. The Rifleman stage was almost identical with the exception of more visible targets this year (and MUCH better weather!). Last year we had 56% of people DNF that stage. No matter which way you cut it, we are seeing a HUGE improvement in both shooters and runners year over year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAZZ Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Thanks to everyone who had had a hand putting the match on. I had a great time, and can't wait for next year! Here's a little video I threw together--not nearly as cool as the one above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 Since so many people had trouble with the slackline I asked the two time Combat Class winner this weekend to demonstrate his technique for getting him and his 50lbs of gear across the 40' span. There are several different ways to do this based on your own personal strengths and exactly what you're carrying, but this one worked very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, RAZZ said: Thanks to everyone who had had a hand putting the match on. I had a great time, and can't wait for next year! Here's a little video I threw together--not nearly as cool as the one above. Great video, and outstanding performance! I especially love your buddy's golf-style running commentary throughout. Thanks for coming to play with us - Edited March 22, 2018 by Matt in TN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAZZ Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 1 hour ago, Matt in TN said: Great video, and outstanding performance! I especially love your buddy's golf-style running commentary throughout. Thanks for coming to play with us - Ya, he was a good sport! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 We had a bunch of people not fill out the gear data in the registration form, but here is a summary of the data we do have. The Rifle Manufacturer data is so cluttered it's useless - other than it's a list of various rifle manufacturers represented at the match. No surprise that the vast majority of competitors shot an AR-15 in 5.56x45. The pistol data was better filled out. Again, no surprise that a Glock 9mm seems to be the pistol of choice. The Pistol Manufacturer graph is cluttered with too much data and hard to read, but I was a little surprised that the XDM beat out the G19 in the models carried, and the G17 wasn't nearly as dominant as I thought it would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted March 23, 2018 Author Share Posted March 23, 2018 (edited) I'm not sure if everyone saw these guys, but we had three different young men shoot the 5k Saturday. These kids showed more fortitude, respect, and skill than I EVER had at their age. I really look forward to seeing what they'll do with our world as they get older and we hand things over to them. Ben Trumble is 11 years old, Thomas Ray is 12, and Logan Carmical is 13. Edited March 23, 2018 by Matt in TN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan 45 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Matt- I've said it on a few different forums, but I know Enos gets different traffic than the others- absolutely fantastic job! I know you put a lot of weekends into the match in trail scouting, prep, obstacles, set up, tear down, sponsorship coordinating, etc. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. John- Great job! Glad you made it back up to The Rock for such a cool event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted March 23, 2018 Author Share Posted March 23, 2018 I fully intended to do a "Ladies of Run N Gun" group picture at the event, but I got distracted and forgot so this collage will have to do. We had 4 awesome ladies shoot the 5k, 5 shoot the 10k, and 2 freaking AMAZONS shoot both in the 15k challenge. Note to all the big beefy guys who really struggled with the slackline - every one of these ladies made it across. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted March 26, 2018 Author Share Posted March 26, 2018 This is my last post and I will let this thread die a good death: Here's a short compilation video you can share with your friends when they ask "What on earth is a 'Run N Gun'???" It is 3 days of awesome crammed into less than 5 minutes, so it is an assault on your senses that you will likely have to watch multiple times to catch everything that's in there. Hopefully it provides just a glimpse of what it felt like to participate. Stay tuned until the end for a special announcement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted March 28, 2018 Author Share Posted March 28, 2018 I lied - one more post. I keep getting questions like "why am I just now hearing about this 'Run N Gun' thing, and where can I find one near me?" So here's a quick graph showing the exploding growth of Run N Gun recently to answer question #1, and a map of all the current RNG locations to answer question #2. Every Run N Gun is slightly different, with different rules and expression of the centerfire biathlon idea. I love the variety and think it's a good thing they are all so different, but be sure to ask a lot of questions and understand what you're in for before you just show up and expect it to be exactly like the last one you did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Jacket Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 (edited) Matt wonder if we could get a Run and Gun sub forum created on the Enos forum? If an admin sees this please chime in. No idea how to make that request. Thanks Edited July 18, 2018 by Blue Jacket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt in TN Posted July 18, 2018 Author Share Posted July 18, 2018 I don't know that we have enough traffic to warrant its own forum. I'm game for whatever the site owners want though - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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