Category: Backblast (Page 412 of 904)

Thought I had already done this but I must be mistaken. We did pledge, WU, then moseyed ALMOST to Waffle House and back, Tube showed up for COT because he overslept but still posted for solo ruck. COT at the end. Lot of good fellowship along the way. I did my best to keep up with Voodoo who is a speedster. Castlerock and HIPAA solved the world’s problems while pulling up the 6. Tube was on another route all alone but getting it done anyway.

Whoopee

This morning at Folsom, five HIM’s braved the rain and come out for a work out themed upon the war crimes and tragedy that is the Chichijima incident.

Chichijima is an island about 500 miles off the coast of Japan.  This was a critical island in WWII because it was a site of long-range radio communications.   The US continually bombed via aerial attacks to shut down those communication links.

The warm up was a few stretching exercises and quick mosey to the parking lot entrance.

We stretched out are arms like an airplanes and ran to the shelter at the bottom of the lower lot. It was the furthest point we could reach.  This symbolized what a 20 year old pilot who was shot down by the heavily fortified island.  He kept his plane in the air as long possible and ejected himself out of his airplane at the very last second. He unfortunately witnessed his brothers also get shot down.

At the shelter, we did AMRAP of dips and merkins. We exhausted ourselves, but it nothing like the young man paddling away from the island as a Japanese boat got closer and closer.

Next we left the shelter and moved to the lower lot. We did 4 corners of burpees, merkins, LBC’s, and squats. We did 8 rounds to honor the men that died in this mission. They were beaten, tortured, and some the victim of cannibalism.

These men along with all our war hero’s should never be forgotten/

Their names are:

• Jimmy Dye – Mount Ephraim, New Jersey
• Floyd Hall – Sedalia, Missouri
• Marve Mershon – Los Angeles, California
• Earl Vauhn – Childress, Texas
• Dick Woellhof – Clay Center, Kansas
• Grady York – Jacksonville, Florida
• Glenn Frazier – Athol, Kansas
• Warren Hindenland – Foxboro, Massachusetts

Next we lined up at the end of the parking. We lunged walked 10 steps then did a jump squat.  We did this continuously until reach the other side of the long lot.  Lastly we did the short mosey back to the flag. We were tired, wet, but happy to be with our brother.  I am sure not near as happy as that 20 year old young man paddling for his life and was rescued. He paddle for 3 hours until he was saved by a US submarine. For those 3 hours, the Japanese boats kept getting closer but were slowed down by fellow airman providing cover from the sky.

That 20 year old man and survivor was the 41st president George H.W. Bush.

Announcements

• F3 Dads at the Gashouse – Looking for more Q’s
• Service opportunity with Freight downtown tomorrow.
• Visit with Turtleman tomorrow, see Whoopie for details

Prayer Request

• Ball Joint Family Member
• Stogie’s Friend
• Sister Act and Family
• Westside and Family
• Traveling Pax
• The cotters

Big Pappy

We Rucked, we KLAWed (walk/ruck backwards)
Named the FNG that was EH’d by Hippa

A great morning after a great holiday.   Some rucked, others ran, everyone got better.

The verse and word was:

Psalm 27:5

For he will hide me in his shelter
    in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;
    he will lift me high upon a rock.

Being a short work week and a holiday week YHC figured today at The Ricky Bobby might be a little thin. In terms of numbers it was. In terms of quality it was not! Went like this:

COP:

SSH X 20

IW X 20

Cotton Pickers X 20

Grapevines

Peter Parker X 20

Head to the field for some Kevorkians

1st set:

Burpees

P1 – Run 1/2 way and do 5, run back

P2 – do then until P1 returns

Flapjack

2nd Set

P1 – same run, 5X hands locked big boys

P2 – work until P1 returns

Flapjack

3rd Set

P1 – same run as above, 5X diamond merkins

P2 – same as above

Flapjack

4th Set

Same order as above, Jump Squats

Over to the benches for some triple nickel

Bench – 5 dirkins

half lap – 5 plank jacks

Finish lap.

5 laps total

Benches as follows:

Bulgarian Split Squats X 10 each leg

Elevated big boys (hands locked)

Dips X 10

10 step ups each leg

Run 1/2 way across the field – 5 HR merkins

Run rest of the way across the field – 5 HR merkins

Run back

Return to benches, repeat as per previous

Run back as follows:

1/2 way – burpee broad jump

rest of the way – NUR

Back to COT for Mary and a 3 minute Plank to end

NMM:

Small but dedicated group today. Enjoyed the push! Bubba Sparxx had one hell of a vacation return! Went ot the dogs for sure. Prayers up for Turtleman and our traveling pax and families right now. look forward to all your returns!

Tesla

Pledge
25 SSH IC
25 IW IC
25 mountain climbers IC
25 Freddie’s IC
10 jump lunges count one side

25 reverse crunches oyo
10 hand release merkins
25 Flutters IC

Mosey to short hill for 11s of hand release merkins at bottom and bear crawl up for monkey humpers , mosey down

Mosey around park until below picnic shelter and nur up hill
25 dips IC ( since it wasn’t raining ( Let it go !)

No more non rain

Assemble in front of play area burpee suicides
Run pell mell to first island for a burpee and mosey back
As a group start next round going to next island for 2 burpees
See a pattern ( they didnt either) third island for 4 burpees mosey 

fifth island would see 8 burpees and then sixth for 16 burpees

waited for anyone to ask if 32 or 64 to which I was going to respond, “ no, that’s crazy!”

turd shack for peoples chair and marching IC 25

10 hand release merkins 

assume BTTW and 10 hip slappers but count each individual 

flutters IC 25

back to picnic area to pick up derkins which were left off …. Planned on 25 IC but when I only heard BallJoint and self …. Cancelled at 20

mosey back for 2 1/2 minutes of Mary led off by Captain Stubing with 25 crunches oyo

E Z gave us 25 crunchy frogs 

Dirt with the iC reverse crunches x 20

time for one more Dirty Dogs 20 each side courtesy of Watts Up

NEED Qs FOR 7/21 and 7/28 AS ILL BE ON VACATION … step up

Freight downtown Friday 5:00 delivering water and F 3 info

Turtlemans Friday 5:00 to lift spirits and offer encouragement 

VQ for Bob the Builder at Downtown this Friday 

collections of hair brushes , combs, gun and cough drops this month

prayers for Turtleman, EZ Riders family, those in the path of Elsa