- When:4/15/16
- QIC: Horsehead
- The PAX: 14 total, and I'm going by memory here. Horsehead, Spackler, Turkey Leg, Witch Doctor, Brown, Blazing Saddles, Tackling Dummy, Pop Tart, Squid, Lex Luthor, MAD, missing 3 - please shout out in comments
The Burbs
Named this one after that 1989 gem of a Tom Hanks movie after lugging around these heavy and suspicious sandbags in my driveway at 4:50AM this morning. If you haven’t seen it before, it’s worth a look.
14 strong of back and rear, ready to take on the Fiery Death Circle of Deadly whatever I called it on twitter last night.
Thang:
Roaming COP to locate the three stations – various warmup exercises to get the blood flowing.
Station 1 – 30 Kettlebell Swings – in the lower school parking lot near flagpole
Station 2 – 60lb sandbag run between cones – in the church parking lot
Station 3 – Dealers Choice of Tire Hairburners or Tractor Tire Flips – at the HS practice field
We ran these for 30 mins or so, then headed back to the practice field
Partner Alabama Slamma – abbreviated version.
P1 – 15 merkins
P2 – 14 merkins
so on, and so forth
finish with another team if you complete early
Mary
– Flutter
– Dolly
– LBC
– Bicycle
– Can Opener (Pop Tart)
– V Up (Turkey Leg)
– 100s (exercise borrowed from F3 Summerville, a Pilates favorite according to WD)
Skin:
Simple workout, designed to let the fast run faster and the slow keep folks in sight. Usually, people start changing groups if things are moving too slow for them, but this was a courteous group and all of the teams stuck together from what I observed.
Cobains to Spackler, who just came to hang out and do some back-friendly exercises. Between the three stations, I think this was about as back-unfriendly as you can go. He appeared to be doing something at each station, so I hope he got his moneys worth.
After 3 years of doing crummy head-bobbers, Harley was finally shown the path to proper merkin form. Expect huge gains this summer.
I thought we only had a few mins left when we circled up for Mary, but we actually had 9 mins left. I’m usually more of a “lay on the ground after a few mins of this garbage” guy, so I did the best I could with it. The worst thing about it wasn’t the exercises though, it was the complete disregard for all things sacred and decent as displayed by projectile flagellation shrapnel coming from both Port and Starboard. Granted, there is typically some level of this at all of our workouts, but this was an unholy and disgusting display of excreta.
Always a good time at Kevlar. Thanks for coming out.
HH
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Thanks for a great Q Horsehead. Not sure if you left me out or if you called me “Rad”. If you called me “Rad”, then thanks brother. Reminds me of my old BMX days of the 80’s. If there is a “Rad” who posted this morning then I’ll try to say “Hi” to you next time. Either way I’m not mad. It’s just my F3 name.
I was whipped this morning. I’ve been posting to KB workouts for a few weeks (because I hate to run). I came today because I needed to run – so thanks to the Pax in group 3 who stuck with me today. And if there is proper form or technique to hoist that sandbag onto one’s shoulders then I need to learn it #donotliftsandbagwithyourback.
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