Burners. Burners Everywhere.

Burners. Burners Everywhere.

I had an idea. A wonderfully terrible idea. Let’s go….

Pre-Thang
EE/Kiefer for 5. Me for 4. Boondock on bike for 3. Horse for 1.9 or so.

The Thang
Mosey down beyond the buses

COP
SSH IC x30
IW IC x20
Mountain Climbers IC x20

Run over to the intersection and a few quickly see what awaits us….hairburners.

Divide up into two teams and each team gets EEs epoxy covered no-slide plates and up the road to the gates we go. The group not pushing the plates does this order of exercises: LBCs x20, Merkins x15, Bomb Jacks x10, Burpees x5.

At the gates, we run down to the practice field and more chatter as guys see the sleds. Sledburners longways across the field (guess 175 yards or so). Do the same order of exercises if not pushing.
Sledburners back across the field as we need to get back to where we started. Exercises if not pushing.

Back to the plates. Hairburners down the road. Exercises if not pushing.

We’re done, right? Donut Hole asked if we were carrying the plates back. Oh no Brother, we are pushing them back. From the intersection, hairburners up the hill to the stop sign going past the buses. Exercises if not pushing.

I had intended us to be done at the stop sign. But then HH goes ‘Why not just push them on the sidewalk back down to the parking lot. Well, we have time so why not. Great idea HH.

Except it wasn’t a great idea. The concrete grabbed those plates worse than the asphalt. This was terrible.

Finally we are back in the parking lot. There are 7 minutes remaining. I really don’t want to do 7 MOM.

No parking sign suicides. 7 signs as Shepherd’s truck is blocking the 8th sign. Seemed to be a good followup for your legs as HH cramped up (menstrual?).

Once everyone is done: 4 MOM

Dolly IC x55
Dolly IC x10

DONE!

COT/PRAYERS
Pray for good news with HBs MRI results which he should get on Monday. Pretty sure the Dr would have told you that Hairburners will help your healing process.
Prayers continue for The Count’s Dad.

Moleskine
This just sucked. You know you’ve wondered what a full hour of burners (hair and sled) would be like. No? That’s only me who wondered that? Well, now we all know at least.
I liked the variation that the hairburners and sledburners gave. Hair is just brute strength pushing through it. Sled required a lot more balance work. Good combo.
Everyone pushed hard. The Late Show said it best at coffeeteria: This was about mentally surviving. We all know what we can do physically but breaking through mental barriers when you think you can’t push those plates again is when you mentally grow stronger. I knew the intersection was not the end. I knew the uphill was coming. You guys didn’t but instead of bailing on me, you kept pushing. This is how iron sharpens iron.
Great to have Z show up during COT and coffeeteria. He did a burpee. It counts. For those that don’t know, he and CT are the two UC originals. They were at the very first UC F3 workout. They are the cornerstones we’ve built upon. We view F3Outland by the men that are at each workout but we honor those who were in the gloom before we even knew what this F3 thing was. These two paved the way and we are all better because of it.
HH apparently told HB to pick a side and roll over. I think it was more of a collapse than a roll over and HH might have kicked him out of the way. It’s all a hazy dream that I’m trying to forget at this point.
When we got to the intersection and you guys were told the intersection isn’t the end, I think my comment was ‘The plates are easier to push than to carry.’ I was hoping it would encourage you. I think it actually just made the anger grow.

Thanks for letting me lead today. I’m a better man because of the influence each of you has had on my life.

Glass Joe