Monthly Archive July 2017

PTWGD – Post Traumatic Wet Grass Disorder

A 10 Pax came out to Watchtower this morning.  As part of a pre-workout reconnaissance to ensure we have access to stadium, we find that the gates are locked and the only way to stadium is via cross country trail and across the field.  Begin to feel slightly concerned due to assurance to Moneyball that we would stay on the concrete, but we all have to improvise.

5:25: Pax continuing to arrive and stretch, Transporter somehow found a way to pack a fully johnny on the spot within his pocket as he is no amateur when it comes to the bathroom game.

5:28 Like clockwork Moneyball pulls in and is ready to go.  YHC was truly hoping he would have fartsacked….posted in Meck this morning.

5:30 We begin to Mosey and prior to stepping off the asphalt the full disclaimer is given.  We get towards the cross country trail entrance and Posse is ready with his 10,000 lumens flashlight

5:32 Shop Dog arrives and Transporter holds back to wait or found a nice spot to pop a squat until Shop Dog is able to catch up.

Thang:

Version 1 of mosey to stadium:

Nice 2nd F pace through the tranquil wooded trail across a fresh grassy knoll that has a slight morning dew.

Version 2 of mosey to stadium:

Run through the Vietcong  in the pitch black with cooper heads ready to attack your ankles at any moment, endless mounds that are ankle breakers, roots everywhere like trip wire. And then once out of the jungle come up to grass that has not been mowed in weeks.  Field completely flooded must have had the sprinklers on all night, requires buckets to remove the water from my shoes. Shoes that are soaked through that feet have now begun to blister, uneven cuts of grass that are ready to bring a grown man to his knees.

Once at the stadium entrance do a little work on the blocking sleds waiting for the six

Enter the Stadium and partner up and find a section of stairs in bleachers.  Each set consisted of 2 rounds of P1 going up the stairs and P2 doing called exercise at bottom and then flapjacking.

Exercises:

  • Run up steps/Dips
  • High Knees/Derkins
  • Bunny Hops/Incline Merkins
  • Single leg hops/Knees to Chest
  • Shuffle Up/Squats
  • Bear Crawl/American Hammers
  • Wheel Barrow Up

Next go to under stadium and use the agility ladders.  Go through first ladders doing foot work drills and second set of ladders mirroring same drills in bear crawl with hands then go up ramp around bottom deck of bleachers and back down.

Exercises:

  • Straight Through
  • Front Back
  • Outside Inside
  • Side to Side
  • Backwards
  • Front Back / Add in Merkin on 2nd ladder

Exit stadium and do some leg swings with partner waiting on 6

Finish with mosey back to start.  (Insert version from above)

Announcements:

  • Watchtower will move start to front of High School starting next week.  Frack/Posse to send update again and try to update pin on website
  • Susan B Komen Race on Oct 7th will include Speed for Need racing chariots and opportunity to push ladies who are currently undergoing treatment and unable to run.  Will be racing as part of Heather’s Heroes.  More info to follow soon.
  • Prayers for Posse’s and his M as she is having surgery today

PreBlast – Straights and curves, No corners

The first PreBlast on the new site? Perhaps, and it won’t be the last. Lesson learned from Q ing at McHorsey today. Area 51 reads the PreBlast info (Slack or Twitter). Metro, nah, just show up…

 

The Pax of Swift will meet at the Vine Restaurant at 0500 or 0515 depending on your appetite for warm-up. We will not be venturing far this week, and the noted arena style Brixham Green will be modified to smooth out some of the bumps. Here’s the THANG:

  • 0500- extra credit warm-up
  • 0515- leave the Vine parking area and head over to the Brixham Green. Site preview. Regroup at the straightaway closest to the tent at 0525.
  • 0525- warm-up drills & then break into some pacing groups based on 1 mile race time. 1) 5:30 and under. 2) 6:30 and under. 3) 7:30 and under. 4) anything else. Make sure all groups have at least 2 Pax. If not, combine groups.
  • 0530- start rounds of the following intervals (with equal distance rest) at your 1 mile race pace: 200meters, 200meters, 400meters. There will be cones marking start and finish of each interval. Here is a diagram: map
  • 0610 – head back to COT.

 

A Foxhole Fourth

A perfect summer morning in south charlotte: 70, not too humid, bright moon. Solid conditions for a morning workout. YHC joined Wild Turkey for an easy 5k on the “new” loop. Voodoo came in hot and missed us, but tried to catch us on the old “loop”… didn’t happen. A couple site former site Q’s in attendance, but no throwbacks (Honey Bee, Market Timer, etc). Today marked the 4th Anniversary of Foxhole. Here’s what we did to honor that milestone:

Warmup

  • SSH 20 (cadence)
  • Windmill 10 (cadence)
  • KB Squat 20 (civ count)
  • Hot Lap around the lot.
  • KB Sumo-High Pull 20 (civ count)
  • Merkin 10 (cadence)
  • KB Swing 20 (OYO)

Workout

Scoot down to the turf field. Everyone line up on the close sideline for some “bursts”

Burst One

  • 20 swings
  • 10 Squats
  • Sprint to opposite sideline
  • Run backwards back to line
  • KB Swings until the 6 is in
  • 10 count

Burst Two

  • 20 sumo-high pull
  • 10 KB jump squats
  • Sprint to opposite sideline with the bell
  • Run backwards to the line with the bell
  • Flutters until the 6 is in
  • 10 count (of cadence flutters)

Burst Three

  • Bear Crawl with KB pull and drag to mid-field
  • KB lunge to the remainder of the way to opposite sideline
  • Run with KB back to the line.
  • LBC until the 6 is in.
  • 10 count (of cadence LBC)

Burst Four

  • 10 toes to fence rail
  • 10 merkins
  • 10 KB jump squats
  • Backwards run to opposite sideline
  • Backwards runs back to line
  • Toes to the fence rail until the 6 is in.
  • 10 count (of slow fence to the rail)

Burst Five

  • 20 sumo deadlift high pull
  • 20 KB swings
  • 10 KB squats
  • 10 KB jump squats
  • Run to opposite sideline of the 2nd field (twice the distance)
  • Run back to the starting line.
  • Heels to Heaven until the 6 is in
  • 10 count (of cadence flutters)

Burst Six

  • 10 toes to the fence rail
  • 20 merkins
  • KB lunge walk across the field to the opposite sideline.
  • Sprint with KB back to the start.
  • LBCs until the 6 is in.

Finisher

Drag the bells up to the launch, set em down next to the shovel flag. Head to the playground for some jump pulls. Jump pull is a pull-up with jump assistance at the bottom: this aids in enforcing full range of motion. Most PAX don’t have good form on pull-ups / can’t do any. This is a good way to train those muscles through the full range.

  • 20 Jump Pulls OYO
  • 10 count.
  • 15 Jump Pulls OYO
  • 10 count.
  • 10 Jump Pulls OYO
  • 10 count.
  • 5 Jump Pulls OYO.
  • 10 count.
  • 1 slllloooooww L-pull-up. (up-up-up-up-holllldd–down-down-down)

DONE.

Writings

YHC has only been part of F3 for 18 months. Nearly every Monday has been spent here at the Foxhole. There have been some really brutal workouts in those 18 months; this one (for YHC) was no exception. The group that came out today showed great tenacity. After each Burst they seem to say, “that all you got ?”, so we went hard today. 8 guys today, which is a perfect number.

Wild Turkey: 2nd consecutive post at the ‘Hole and pushed it hard today. Great 2nd F in the pre-run. WT got the full 75 minutes of Foxhole goodness today, and is sure to be feeling it as he drives his clan up to Wisconsin tomorrow. Good luck with that, and we are expecting some solid Strava activity whilst you are up there.

Voodoo nabbed his same parking spot. Grabbed the same bells (though elected to leave big blue at the launch), and had a solid performance today. Even though there wasn’t much technical KB work today, the dude can still swing and pull like the best of him. We all knew the absence from KB site-Q ing was short-lived though. Word on the street, Voodoo is now site-Q at Meathead, a 0.0 gear site in the heart of A51. Way to step up.

Short Pole: From aerial view, you’d think Short Pole was the 6 today during the bursts. He was in fact the last one back on several of them, but not by much. The Reason. YHC handed him the 24kg bell today (the one with the fat handle). The rest of us were 40-50lbs today. Even a few extra bell pounds can add a ton to the exertion needed to propel it. Well done Short Pole, you get the “heavy” award today. Speaking of heavy, Short Pole has got a lot less of that going on these days. Rumor has it, he’s down to mid 190s from somewhere north of 220… #t-claps.

Soft Pretzel was next to YHC on the line today and pushed it hard and was at the head of the pack several times. This is even more impressive given that pretzel is fresh off of vacation (or some sort of travel) in which many pretzels were likely consumed.

General: is Fat. No, it is not just a Fire Hazard joke anymore. YHC’s success in the Fat Boy challenge will require me to launch various negative Ad campaigns against the General so that he begins to actually believe he is Fat, and will maybe run a little slower in the next Fat Boy challenge. This is especially critical given that General bested YHC in most of the Bursts today. General, nice work.. fatty.

Loogie pushed hard until he succumbed to his injuries and had to leave. He showed a tremendous amount of support and his presence, as a former site Q, was much appreciated.

Fire Marshal Bill was out front today on several of the Bursts, and continues to dominate gear oriented workouts (that’s usually where YHC sees him). FMB’s support for gear oriented workouts, and his ability to crush them like a cheap RC Cola can are among the top reasons why Fire Marshal Bill is joining YHC as co-site-Q at the Foxhole. Nothing will stop us now.

Thanks for following YHC into the Foxhole today.

Argo Out.

Announcements

  • July 19th: Kinetic Heights trip (details on Slack, or DM YHC on Twitter)
  • July 26th: 2nd Running of the FatBoy challenge
  • Thursday 3rd F oppo, Gut Check, weekly after Rebel Yell. Come ask and answer hard questions

6 for 5 and a Few New Guys

With our fearless leader playing with hills at Horsey, it left Bunker at the reigns of Blakeovery to lead 6 PAX on a 5 mile adventure.  At a little before launch time, Bunker provided the route and at 5:15 we were off.

The Thang:

Blakeney Shopping Center up Ardrey Kell, past the high school, making a right at Marvin Rd (State Employees Credit Union), then a quick right to West Providence to Community House Rd.  Make a right on Community House towards Ardrey Kell than back to the starting point.

We ended the morning with a good 15 minutes of stretching led by Paper Jam and Strange Brew.

Moleskin:

It was good to see some new faces at Blakeovery. Madison and Strange Brew drove across town to see what all the hype was about and Stump Hugger set an early alarm that included a barking Pit Bull mix puppy and joined the fun.

Bunker, Wingman and Madison we in front with Paper Jam not far behind.  Strange Brew, fresh off his bout with malaria, and Stump Hugger put in a solid effort.  At one point Bunker went back to check on the 6 and then easily passed Paper Jam to join the others in front. I thought Rachel was the only one who lapped me, now I can add Bunker to that list.

We can include flexibility on Wingman’s proficiency list, next time he will lead the stretching.  Looks like all that YMCA hot yoga is paying off.

Thanks Bunker for letting me test out the new F3 site by writing the back blast. -Paper Jam

daVinci SIXPENCE Pre-Blast

As many of you now know Tuck is in training for the DC marathon, JRR Tolkein said it was the easiest marathon, whatever that means. 🙂  In one of his weaker moments during an early morning Swift run he asked me to take over as Site Q.  Well of course I was flattered, honored, humbled…you know? Only Six months into F3 I thought this was a big deal.

Of course then there’s reality: you guys have many great AO’s to choose from on Saturdays; Stonehenge (personal fav), Rockzero (love this one too), Blackhawk, Outland, Ascent, etc.  I mean wow…how do I compete against these?

I’ve been pondering and maybe compete isn’t the right way to think about this. Like me, most of you like to mix things up and not get into a rut.

So here’s my ask..mix it up, stir it up, shake it up but include daVinci in your week every once in a while.

Great time 6:30-7:30 (sleep in a little), Great location in Blakeney –  https://www.google.com/maps/place/Blakeney/@35.033676,-80.8072029,1244m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xb6980bfd865ed61!8m2!3d35.035944!4d-80.8072757

AND – The best for last – Six (6) of the best Q’s lined up to take you to the next level!! (Disclaimer, really it’s 5, I am bookends to this so no matter how I sliced it, 6 included me at least once.)

July 15th: Yours Truly

July 22nd: Mermaid (you kidding me? Who would miss this?)

July 29th: PaperJam (You all love this guy, he’ll work you.)

August 5th: Heartbreaker (I’ve seen him Q, don’t miss this.)

August 12th: Cheddar (What do I need to say? Really?)

August 19th: Strawberry (Bro, if you think daVinci is easy, better buckle up.)

September is already planned and equally right as rain…just come out and see for yourself.

Fredo –

Back to basics

Ascent began almost 4 years ago as a moderate bootcamp workout.  Over time there have been different focuses; recently, one of once-monthly KBs (which YHC whole-heartedly embraces) along with regular doses of bootcamps.  While YHC has made several of the KB versions recently, the bootcamps have been missed, and YHC had not Q’ed a non-KB workout here in quite some time.  And, so it goes that 9 pax would be treated to YHC’s trip down memory lane or…memory-pain?

A thorough, legally-binding Disclaimer was provided, and we were off.

The Thang

COP – extended director’s cut

  • Lap around the track (1/8 mile)
  • SSH
  • Merkins
  • IW
  • Lap around the track
  • Merkins
  • LSS
  • Mtn Climbers
  • Lap around the track
  • (10 count thrown in somewhere along in here)
  • Side merkins – L  (left arm extended to side)(#smerkins)
  • Alternating side lunges
  • Smerkins® – R
  • Lap
  • Peter Parker (not Parker Peter, for the record)
  • Prying squats
  • Hill Billy

Sufficiently warm, let’s mosey

Playground circuit

  • 5 pullups
  • 10 hand-release merkins
  • 15 deep squats
  • Nope, not Cindy (20 minutes), just 5 rounds today

Mosey to Ascent Hill football field (YHC wasn’t feeling the hill repeats after all)

Triple Nickel

  • 5 trips down the field and back
  • 5 speed skaters (each side) at the far endzone
  • 5 Sister Mary Catherines (#superstar) at the near endzone

Mosey to the concession stand area

Refreshments

  • 10 Bulgarian split squats (each leg) (#crowdpleaser)
  • 10 incline merkins
  • 10 step-ups (each leg)
  • Repeato 3x

Mosey back through the playground for one more set of pullups

on to the parking lot for

Mary

  • Flutter
  • Cumberland County Viaduct
  • Dolly
  • Slow Freddie Mercury
  • Old school situps

done

COT

Announcements

  • Q schedule is pretty open – please volunteer to lead a week.
    • Mall Cop volunteered to take next week’s Q

Naked Moleskine:

Great group out today on this typical Southern morning – hot, humid and all that.

Today’s #weinke could have been accurately called a meatloaf, as YHC tossed a little of everything in there, but it seemed to taste alright.  Bulgarian split squats were a crowd pleaser and are likely the source of my “comfortable” hamstring/glute soreness today.  Sorry to have denied you all the pleasure of Ascent Hill repeats, but after the pre-run, YHC wasn’t feeling it and opted to audible out of it to the football field instead.  Too bad we couldn’t find a nice patch of grass in the shade for Mary, but the concrete wasn’t too rough and was shady.

Great 2nd F; you all are what makes Ascent such a great AO.  Thanks, as always, for the opportunity to lead.

Aye!

 

A deer, a fox and a Pax walked into the woods………….

11 men rolled up to the Vine at 5:15 ready for a good beat down. YHC wanted to oblige them… so off we went.

The Thang,

We moseyed past Lochness and the fitness trial to the parking lot behind Snyder’s. Here we circled up for the disclaimer and the following:

  • 15 – SSH
  • 15 – IW
  • 10 – Merkins
  • 10 – Windmills

Next over to Bag Pipe hill.

YHC slowly explained that we would be doing 11’s on the hill.

Start with 10 Burpees at the top and 1 Squat at the bottom. Then do it again with 9 and 2 then 8 and 3….. you get it.

Trying to stay safe we will run up on the left and down on the left watching out for each other while crossing.

Then we met at the bottom did a little plan work and then we were over to the Fitness trail with 3 groups. The first group would do 10 pull-ups on the fitness trial closest to Lochness. The 2nd group would then do 10 big boy dips on the bars. Team 3 would start at the other side of the fitness trial with 10 pull-ups. Cycle thorough this 3 times and then meet at the top.

Then back to the launch site for a few minutes of Mary.

 

The thing prior to the THANG…

I tried to make a point during the instructions to make sure the Pax new to run on the left hand side of the road always and to watch each other while turning and shouting out if cars were coming. We have all heard of the loss in F3 Lexington. Let’s learn from this and be safer. It is easy to get complacent and think of these AO’s as our playgrounds, but these are open roads and tired motorists are not always paying attention.

 

Off my soap box and on the THANG….

So it took a lot of explaining to get Pax oriented to the 11’s on bag pipe hill. Where is the top???? what are we using as the bottom???? Burpees WHY????

So as everyone was grinding it out a few key things happened.

  1. A deer was seen crossing by wingman.
  2. Transporter ran into the same set of bushes that the Deer disappeared into.
  3. A fox was seen running out of the same bushes shortly after. Said fox was running erratically in the street.

So the events noted above brought up lots of mumble chatter. Why did transporter grab his shirt before running into the woods (Doc says this happens all the time with Transporter). Did Transporter accidentally bomb the foxes den, hence the foxes erratic behavior. Did the fox wonder what strange twig and berries had invaded his turf. Would transporter make it back sans shirt or with his shirt in tow.

Transporter did meet back up with us with his shirt (not sure if it was soiled or not. don’t ask don’t tell).

Everyone pushed hard today the 11’s were tough and we had almost 4 miles 38 minutes into the workout. During the fitness trail part of the workout I was beat and was heads down.

During the 11’s Doc was out in front the whole time as was transporter (until the bush incident). Haggis was having a bipolar day. He would tell me on the way down he wasn’t going to push hard today…. then he would fly by me on the uphill to catch Doc. Wingman was doing his job as the I.T. Q. Somehow he would catch up to me striding it out and not breathing hard and try to explain this new webpage. I had no idea what he was saying and I just wheezed OK between pants. Outback and Frehley’s pushed hard today and stayed with it until the very end. Buckeye and Fallout seemed to passed me on opposite sides of the road. I am not sure if they were in front or I was but we seemed to be on the same cycle round after round. Nard Dog was fast as always and somehow passed me multiple times on the uphill.  Argo was his normal silent self quietly killing it and pushing as hard as anyone out there.

Where Are They Now?

18 men showed up for a Saturday morning #F3RockZero beatdown. After a Mermaid approved disclaimer, here’s the work we put in:

The Thang

Run from the launch point to the front parking lot at Calvary for COP.

  • IWs x 15 IC
  • Merkins x 15 IC
  • Low Slow Jump Squat x 15 IC
  • 10 burpees OYO

Run from the front parking lot to the rocks by the softball field. Grab a rock for lifting. Mosey across to the parking lot and line up abreast. Here was our circuit:

  • Merkins x 10 IC
  • Squats with rock x 10 IC
  • Presses with rock x 10 IC
  • Curls with rock x 10 IC
  • Tricep presses with rock x 10 IC
  • Lunges (R1 – walking lunge, R2 – frontwards lunge with rock, R3 – backwards lunge with rock, R4 – stop motion lunge)
  • Sprints (of varying distances each round)
  • Core (R1 – LBCs, R2 – Flutters with rock press, R3 – Dollies with rock press, R4 – LBCs)

We did four rounds. Return the rocks. Mosey to the soccer field. Partner up.

  • Partner A – Run across field to fence, 5 jump squats, run back
  • Partner B – Run up and down the hill with 5 jump squats at top each time
  • Meet up for 10 hand slap merkins. Flapjack.

We did this three times, switching to 5 burpees for the final round.

Mosey to the hot box and find a bench.

  • Little Haze left leg x 10 IC
  • Little Haze right leg x 10 IC
  • Left leg bench squat x 10 IC
  • Right leg bench squat x 10 IC

Run back to the launch point via the long way. 2.85 miles total. End with Freddie Mercury x 20 IC.

COT.

Moleskine

Well Spackler slacked, tweeted, e-mailed and texted the old DZ band for a #F3RockZero episode of Where Are They Now? And then didn’t show. But that’s how it usually goes with the old rockers on the VH1 series…at least one band member doesn’t join the reunion tour, citing irreconcilable differences or lost battles with Tito’s. But, to his credit, he did coax Radar out of retirement. And got Bulldog out on a Saturday. And got Gloss to forego his normal Saturday morning Krispy Kreme trip. Good Hands, Pro, IH, WD, DA, Alf, Mermaid and The Swede…it truly was a trip down memory lane. For a moment, it seemed as though the Yellow Rose had never closed. There were plenty of side bar conversations of catching up…but there was much less mumble chatter than was expected. Perhaps we’ve all matured over the years.

Then you add in all the RZ regulars of Flipper (first post since his RZ format change manifesto), Gummy, Dingo, Hoover, Boerewors and Marlin, it made for a solid group that put in some hard work. This was a declared heavy day, hence the rock work. Missed the 3 mile mark, but only slightly. Would’ve made it with one more round down on the field…but it was nasty hot and humid down there and YHC was out of gas after round 3 of that. Opted for the hot box instead…still nasty up there, but with about 10,000 less gnats.

You know, with the numbers at RZ growing, perhaps it is time to launch another workout…you know, a much harder one just down the road.

But seriously, enjoyed the opportunity to lead this morning. And appreciated everyone being there.

KB’s show up at Stonehenge

Muggy morning out there.  We had 17 men wake up early to shake the rust off.

Jogged to the hotel parking lot where the Q promptly forgot how to count in cadence.  No worries.

Found that someone (yours truly) was kind enough to leave four kettlebells behind one of the bushes.

As a group we took the KBs with us for a tour de force.

Performed the following exercises around the pond-

20 shoulder presses by 4 of the pax while the rest did merkins

rotate

20 shoulder presses by 4 of the pax while the rest did squats

10 hills by all the pax

rotate

20 shoulder presses by 4 of the pax while the rest did burpees with the jump onto the small retaining wall

rotate

20 shoulder presses by 4 of the pax while the rest lunges

5 half pipes with a burpee at the top of the back half.  Tony Hawk would have been proud of that performance.

***hotel manager showed up and we decided to migrate to the parking lot

10 thrusters by 4 of the pax while the rest did merkins

Hershel Walkers – 3x – 20 merkins, 20 old school sit ups and a sprint

rotate to the fitness trail

total of 20 pullups by each member of the pax.  broken into 4 sets of 5.

rotate back to the pond

90 dips and 50 step ups

rotate

10 thrusters by 4 of the pax while the rest did merkins on either side of the retaining wall.

rotate

10 thrusters by 4 of the pax while the rest did burpees with step ups on the retaining wall.

return to the start

finished with as many burpees as possible in the final minute.

great work by the pax this AM.  we were able to incorporate some weight into our workout and found ourselves pushing during both the workout and the recovery.

Announcements

SOB F3 Dads is still on

Ragnar is looking for some additional team members

BRR looking for some additional team members

New website – if you are reading this you found the new website

Centurion Death Clock… AKA Flipper likes complicated workouts

YHC doesn’t post centurion often enough.  That fact was abundantly clear when I knew less than 35% of the names circling up at 0529 at CHS this AM.  A great AO with HUGE growth in recent history, clearly there is a need for diversification  in my posting habits.  Nonetheless YHC had a plan in play and a whole bunch of PAX who had no clue what evil plan they were in for.

THE THANG:

Divided into 4 even(ish) groups… bad instruction point #1… more on that later

Demonstrate staggard Ball-Over Merkin Line (slam ball merkins alternating hands and pass diagonal to the next PAX) w/ 40 lbs. ball

Demonstrate Chest Pass Burpee drill with 20 Lbs. Ball

Mosey west up little Ave to the first cross street, out to 51 and back down to the parking garage via CHS entrance.  Give instructions for plate carry lunge walk CMIYC and realize YHC left the sandbags in the car.

Provide instructions for carrying sandbags up and down stairs (60 lbs.) while balance of group sits in boat (not the best design addmittedly.)

Run east to Walsh, turn the corner at Little and return to launch point.  Groups 2 &4 head to Garage for plates and bags (carrying forgotten bags in the process).  In order each group completed exercise and then ran Walsh to little to launch or from launch up and little and around to garage.  Each group did each station 1X with some nominal confusion.

Sweaty mary back at Launch (thanks Chelms for Substi-Q)

Out

MOLESKIN:

YHC likes to make things harder than they need to be.  Its obvious, in an attempt to avoid boring or derivative weinkes, I tend towards the complicated.  Probably need to get better at providing instruction to grumpy PAX at 0530… moving on…

Centurion really has a lot going for it and the PAX here are STRONG.  The fact we had 5 respects who doggedly kept after a pretty gnarly work out is huge commentary to the grit of this crew.

28 is a lot of Pax to try and create a workout for.  Trying to get timing down for 4 large groups rotating through stations with sufficient gear to boot doubles the challenge, thanks for that men.  I had a lot of fun cooking this one up, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.  And yes my legs are already sore from the lunge walks.

 

Announcements

-Convergence with TheBrave on 8/4 starts at 0515

-Private Benjamin has his VQ at Bighouse this Monday 7/10… Show up big in support.

 

SYITG

Flipper.