Busted Again!

Busted Again!

15 men showed on a chilly morning for #F3Stonehenge.  Three were out for a prerun and one was going on two hours of sleep after being influenced to stay by a senior pax member.  Those things that were done and the places they went will remain nameless.  Let’s be honest this would not be real hard to figure out.

Disclaimer was given and the announcement that the qualification for acceptance into the Navy Seal program was the task today.  Minus the 500m swim of course.  Maybe for another day like when Wild Turkey wants to take us through a creek again at the #F3TheBrave.  The rest of the standard is achieve 50 good form merkins and sit ups along with ten pull ups without coming off the bar within two minutes.  We broke up into four groups with one group holding ankles for the guys doing sit ups.  You got two minutes of rest in between sets.  We wrote down all the numbers in case anyone wants to enroll or if we want to do this again in some other format.

After the swole part of the qualification we had the one and a half mile run that had to be completed under 10:30.  We ran from the top of the overpass to the bull ring.  Twice around the bull ring and that was the distance.

After regrouping we moseyed for the second half of the workout.  We made away to the three o’clock section of the bull ring where we split up into groups of two.  The instructions was do three lift ups on the retaining wall followed by hair burners to the curb and back.  We were trying to get through three rounds.  Most groups got through at least two before Paul Blart rolled up on us.  I seem to have a knack for getting us in trouble.  I really thought we were okay where we were but guess not.  Paul was nice and just asked us to not do hair burners where we were.

We gathered all the plates and ran back to the AO.  We had about two minutes left with Haggis leading one minute of merkins followed by one minute of the Haggis plank,  Done!

Moleskin: Chilly morning out there with the wind.  I think everyone felt warm during the swole part of the workout but the run was tough.  My toes felt frozen.  Many complaints about fingers being numb.

We had a lot of standouts out there this morning.  Several guys are seal worth with fitness levels. Merlin (Respect) had everything with ease on most of the swole part and came close on the run. Little Merlin (Nemo) crushed all of it.  He is of age unlike the rest of us.  Mario is within the age bracket and had the metrics today to qualify but highly unlikely he would pass the background check.

Fahvra, no surprise, was the leader in all categories except the pull up.  That title goes to Fire Hazard.

I did not get Torpedo’s merkin count but he qualified on the sit ups.  Billy goat had the correct number of sit ups as well.  Lex had all of the metrics on the swole part and along with Tolken was leader of bringing up the six.

Speaking of Tolken he had everything needed to qualify and once he gets healed up to run it will be the full package.

If Chedder did not have such long arms he would have qualified.  He was just two pull ups shy of having everything he needed.  Wild Turkey was just one away on the pull ups during the swole part.  Tag along was just two away on the pull ups.  It is not a exercise we get to do enough in F3 because the lack of pull up bars we have.  It is a great exercise and would be great to figure out a way to incorporate it into every workout.  Grip strength is something we all need to work on.

Tiger Rag saved his energy for the run and easily coasted in.  Haggis of course crushed all of it with no problem.  He will probably go workout today because it was too easy this morning.

Announcements: Savage race 5/12/17.  Check news letter.

Enjoy your day.