In the Gloom is when the pax meet for some pre thang foreplay just to heat things up!! Heavy winds from out the west and choppy waters set the tone for what would be a shirt soaking affair. A 2 mile treck down the Mandeville lakefront will surely get your morning started!! Rainbow Unicorn sets the pace leading with his Alicorn only to get passed in the end by shooter who smack talks his way past the young buck.On return to the shovel flag we find a cooler, heavily tagged in F3 logos, (t-claps captain sparkles… @waterboy would have thanked you) with the gas to fuel a man who is about to embark on an adventure with the YHC.
Pax of 11 circles up for the…
Warmarama:
SSH IC X20
IW IC X20
WM IC X10
TT IC X20
BK IC X20
KH IC X20
The Thang:
Mosey to Marigny Ave. and head north for 1 block.
at this point the pax is already soaking wet! YHC smiles to himself using it to gauge his beatdown abilities!!
A short interlude in reference to life relations leads to a block long lunge walk!! And these blocks are seemingly extra long!! This is followed by a mosey for 1 block.
Another interlude in reference to life relations leads to our next endeavor of a block long bear crawl!! (mumble chatter insert here)… followed by a mosey for one block.
And a final interlude in reference to life relations leads to a block long karaoke. Dancing all the way to the bank!! Mosey to down the trace to the Mandeville Trailhead.
Here a preset obstacle corse is set with rigging equipment and some 30lb coupons some of us acquired on a recent ruck event.
The 60+ pull
(2) 50 ft ropes attached to a 60 plus pound bag and chain lay waiting. two teams line up horizontal on opposite sides of the green space. Each rope is stretched out in opposite directions. The entire pax is in plank position. One pax gets in position to pull the dead weight towards his team. As he does the rest of the pax begin to do leg thrusts IC. Once he has pulled it the whole way the rest of the pax switches exercise to plank jacks IC. Now one pax on the opposite team does the same and when it reaches him switch back to leg thrusts until everyone has had a tug.
Baby in a basket
2 ropes hang on opposite sides of the second story of the Trailhead. Attached is an empty bag. The pax stays in teams at the opposite end of the Trailhead. PAX completes various exercises with one member from each team running with the 30lb coupon. He puts it into the bag, runs up the stairs, pulls the bag up, take the coupon, throws the bag back down, and takes the coupon downstairs and back to the team. The pax does:
Squat Jumps IC x10
Slow Lunges IC x10
Merkins IC x10
Freak Nastys x10
Freddie Mercuries IC x10
LBC IC x10
rince and repeat
until completion.
At this point the I’m asking who is still alive for the Indian run back to the Shovel Flag???
Everyone is eager to engage!! lol!
Once at the Shovel Flag COT, BOM tanked up prays us out. and to the cooler we go!
T claps to the newer guys who pushed through this beatdown!! you guys are committed!!
Over and Out,
Butt Splice
You ain’t lying – those were some looooong blocks – I never thought I’d think fondly of those Bourbon street blocks! Nice beatdown, Splice!
I had to ring that Stallion of a Unicorn 🦄 back to reality. Something tells me he will bring the gallop back on the next one though 👍…