When Flintstone asked if I would Q this workout I thought to myself – damn – I don’t want to work that hard at a workout. These challenges were not how I envisioned my Saturdays in the summer. Can’t I just show up and go through the motions of a half ass workout? I mean damn I’m getting old – Let the young bucks do this – I’ll stay in the back and muddle through. After a thorough review of my canned excuses not to participate I acquiesced.
Well if I’m going to do this then best to make most of it. I started by calling out the pax on Slack this week about not being a FIA wannabe and get their arse to the Schiele. Much to my surprise it worked we had 18 answer the call to come get their butts kicked. (Including an FNG!- thanks to Seuss)
Warmup – obligatory SSH then Bonnie Blairs, Superman pullups and Freddie Merk. That should get all the major muscle groups warmed up.
The thang: Mosey to Parkwood parking lot for more “warm-up”. YHC knew we would be doing some running so first called exercise was escalating suicides. Suicides with hand release merkins at each light pole. 2 then 4 then 6. YHC called for 4 sets of suicides but I had to Omaha after 3 rounds to keep us on time.
Time for some friendly competition. We broke up into 6 groups of three pax each. We would compete as a team during the rest of the workout.
Event #1 Burpees – EMOM with 1 min rest x5. The most burpees as a team wins – Congrats to Whoopee’s team 257! That is 85+ (257/3) burpees per pax in just 5 min. Form police may need to go back and check the tape. That’s a lot of burpees in 5 min. My apologies to the Midoriyama regulars – that’s is a lot of counting to some pretty big numbers.
Event #2 Long run for time – Two points were to be allotted – One point for the fastest pax and one point to the team that completes the run first. Race was just under 1 mile. Pizzaman, and Seuss gave Wiki a run for his life but he was able to prevail to win the fastest time overall and team 4 (led by Pizzaman) took the overall team title.
Event #3 Tug of war – Honestly I was not sure about including this but we had time. Teams 1,3 &5 combined to challenge teams 2,4 &6 in a head to head best two of three rounds. Note running shoes are not great for tug of war in wet grass. Teams 1,3,&5 were able to prevail in two consecutive rounds with teams 2,4 &6 unable to move the flag in their direction at any point. Congrats – 5 points awarded
Event #4 – I first tried this out a few weeks ago – team based sprints. Each runner sprints the width of the field does two 8 count bodybuilders and sprints back to tag the next teammate. The team that completes 4 rounds first was crowded champ. Several weeks ago when I tried this out it was a real crowd pleaser but Shortsale made the comment that it would be better if the teams were 3 man instead of 4 – so thanks to Shortsale for helping push the envelope! Team 4 led by SA was able to come from behind and win – 10 points allotted giving team 4 the overall title.
Time – Mosey back to flag to name the FNG. Welcome Andrew Zellers (26). Andrew was more than capable of keeping up with the veteran pax – congrats on a hell of an introduction to F3. He hails from Ohio and lives next to Seuss (who EH’ed him) Apparently he grew up in the same town as Jeffery Dahmer thus the name.
The workout was certainly a challenge – but hey isn’t that the purpose of these fitness challenges? Do we really need to exercise to 50-60% of what we are capable of? Are we really learning to be leaders if we don’t challenge ourselves? Remember Iron sharpens Iron!
Announcements:
Peak to Peak – Kings Mountain to Crowders – meet at Linwood access at 8 am
Coconut Derby Sunday 9/3 – fastest pax to complete 5 miles takes home the belt
Convergence 9/4 (Labor Day) 7am at the fuse – park behind left field
JJ5K Sept 30th
Prayer requests:
Turtleman, Jackson Hall, Norwood, Sledge’s wife, Huckleberry, Anchorman’s in laws, Curley’s wife
Candor and love for your fellow pax
Until next time … Defib out!