Are we gonna do this again?

So YHC put out the tweet that this Saturday’s edition of the Fighting Yank would be an “ass whuppin'”. And guess what? It was? And a pretty big and active pax showed up on the streets of Belmont to participate in the fun. Went like this:

COP:

Stretching (arm and foot to hand)

SSH X 20

IW X 20

4X stretch merkins X 10

Nolan Ryans X 10

Mosey over to Hawthorne Hill for some DORA work,

Run part: Top of Hawthorne Hill and back, Which is hard. Very hard.

Exercises:

Hand release merkins X 100

Big boy sit ups X 200

Squats X 300

P1 runs up and back, P2 does the work, flapjack.

This pretty well takes up half the workout and everyone is gassed! Pretty humid morning, great temp, but it is STILL summer!

10 count, mosey toward the park again.

Burpee suicides on the street.

Run two parking places up, nur one back, drop and do a burpee. Repeat to the end.

Mosey to the park and top of Heartbreak Hill:

Halfpipe X 2

Top: plank jacks X5

Pad: burpees X 5

Top of stairs: butt to the street monkey humpers X 5

4th quarter, line up on the field of dreams for the crucible – Bear Crawl Slalom!

As it is the first real Saturday of college football it was time to invoke “The Bear” as a life lesson. Which is that winning is not imperative. But getting tougher in the fourth quarter is. Read “The Junction Boys”, the story of the trip down to Junction, Tx. by Bear Bryant’s 1st Texas A&M team in September 1954 for 10 days of transformation. Then watch in real time what Boise State did when the chips were down against FSU. If you want to get it done you have to get through the tough parts. What we do in F3 is create a lab for a man to put himself in that environment and get through it. Knowing he has the support of every other guy out there with him. and in our lives since nothing is ever perfect we need that testing to be able to get through those trying times – and make ourselves better by doing it. Adversity = Opportunity.

So with that we proceeded to have 16 guys do two slaloms to the end of the field. YHC always takes the first one. After the first round Ring of Fire looked over at me and asked “Are we gonna do this again?”. Well SURE we are! why wouldn’t we! And so off we went! And ended perfectly at the end of the field after two turns for each pax.

Recovery:

SSH X 10

Copperhead squats X 10

Back to the end of the field:

Sprint to midfield: 10 CDDS

Sprint to end: 20 CDDS

10 count, over to Heartbreak hill again.

One round of halfpipe, over to the fountain for stretching.

End and Pledge at The Yank.

NMM:

Strong performance here by the pax. It was most def a “whuppin”. As advertised. We don’t come out for walkthroughs do we? Tesla announced at COT that I would be passing the flag on to Pockets in October at The Yank. Pockets will be the site XO and be getting together a Q schedule this month. Then we will pass the flag at the convergence in late October. I think we need a site XO for Pockets as well. A Saturday site is pretty demanding and if someone would step up and help Pockets I would appreciate it very much guys!

Been an honor to lead this effort. Look forward to passing it on.

Tesla