13 men came to the Wally Sprint for varying flavors of difficulty, but all with the purpose of becoming stronger than when they arrived.
Ruckers- Logo, Charmin, Hokie, Kenner Brah, Macgyver, Boo-Boo, Klinger, and Baloo completed 2.37 miles followed by nine minutes of Mary incorporating weighted rucks.
Tenderloin did his thing.
Sprinters- Hawg, Frac, Pai Gow, Mambi mindlessly sprinted around the track and showed up to COT dizzy.
COT, prayers, OUT! Coffeteria followed with partial attendance.
A surprise week 5 IPC at Rock City chased a lot guys to the Scrum. There were a lot of Bonnie Blairs.
5 Kraken Burpees every 5 minutes. When the EMOM timer goes off, stop what you’re doing and do 5 Kraken Burpees.
Round 1
10 BDE Burpees
10 yard Murder Bunny
10 BDE Burpees
10 yard Reverse Murder Bunny
Round 2
20 Thrusters
20 yard Murder Bunny
20 Thrusters
20 yard Reverse Murder Bunny
Round 3
30 Bonnie Blairs (the Hard way)
30 yard Murder Bunny
30 Bonnie Blairs (the Hard way)
30 yard Reverse Murder Bunny
I’m beginning to sense a trend
Round 4
40 Jungle Boi Squats (2 Spoonz Style)
20 yard Murder Bunny
40 Jungle Boi Squats (2 Spoonz Style)
20 yard Reverse Murder Bunny
Well, I thought there was a trend
Round 5
50 Merkins
10 yard Murder Bunny
50 Merkins
10 yard Reverse Murder Bunny
Conditions: Clear, 68 degrees. Humidity 52%. Wind 15.9 m/h from NE
Pax: Boo Boo, Bogey, Mahatma, Hawg, Hand Grenada, Frac, Logo, PVC, Bolt, and War Eagle
I signed Hand Grenada up to Q a number of El Diablos so he can get his name on the prestigious bat. After the workout, I asked him about writing the Backblast and he let me know that he doesn’t own a computer….or know how to write. So we sat down and I interviewed him:
YHC: Who posted:
HG: You were there. Don’t you know?
YHC: Yes.
HG: Okay.
YHC: What did you do?
HG: You were there.
YHC: Tell it to me in your own words.
HG: My back hurt
YHC: Okay, that’s a start, but not really the answer to the question.
HG: Warm-up
YHC: Good.
HG: Rock. Hill
YHC: ….
HG: Bogey 11. Opposite 11. Seven
YHC: Stop there. I’m not following. Are saying you that 7 is the opposite of 11?
HG: Yes.
YHC: 7 is definitely not the opposite of 11. Negative 11 is the opposite of 11.
At this point HG held out his hands and stared at them for a while. Then he looked at my feet. He looked back at his hands. This took at least 3 minutes. His brow was furled most of those three minutes. Then he looked at me smiled and said…
HG: Seven.
YHC: Is it because they rhyme? That’s not what opposite means. Does your confusion have something to do with the gas station?
HG:…
YHC: Okay 7s. What was next?
HG: Bleachers. Merkins. Pavilion.
YHC: You went from the hill to the bleachers to the pavilion? That surprises me. The pavilion is right by the hill. You’ve never been one to travel extra distance.
HG: No. Basketball Pavilion.
YHC: That’s a gym.
HG: Crawl Bear. Shoulder. Sit. Balls. Mary. End.
Compared with Monday’s Q this one was a breeze, starting with the literal breeze and a temperature of 68 degrees, the gate was open, and while YHC double booked himself FracSack quickly took it over not wanting to compete the IPC.
As an exercise in brevity, YHC wont repost the thang because the reader can look it up from Monday (link below).
The times are below but some highlights include Hawgcycle not only beating his time from all day but more shockingly he was wearing shoes!
Sandberg and Snooze coming in the Lakeview Clown Car.
Clinger finished his first loop and when YHC asked him what exercise he was on he just said “I don’t know, I just saw everyone running and decided to follow them.”
And most importantly, everyone, minus YHC (because someone had to keep time) running the last two laps with Logo, showing that F3 is more than just kicking butt, but also about leaving no man behind but leaving no man where we find him.
Times:
Hawg cycle – 38:07
Mahatma – 43:20
Snooze – 48:32
Triple shift – 48:36
Sandberg – 51:24
Bolt – 57:02
Logo – 1:07:06
Cyber Cajun – DNF
Clinger – DNF
Charmin – Clipboard Q
Stop me if you’ve heard this before (as most of you have). The levee was strangely dry, given how much water was covering the roads. YHC was prepared to find something else to do, expecting much grumbling about wet grass and such. But no – lets do this. Had to modify parking spot, due to Lakeshore drive closures. So circle up on top of the levee at Canal for a quick High Rise led warmup while we waited for the final stragglers to locate us.
Then 8 PAX (including Dreamliner, DR from Virginia) hit the levee for the traditional 40. 10 exercises, 4 sets, back and forth over the levee. Usual exercises (Lunges, Squat Jumps, Merkins, Carolina Dry Docks, Plank Walk, Peter Parker, Parter Peker, Situps, Dying Cockroaches, and finishing with everyone’s favorite – BURPEES). Some new mixins including bernie sanders up the levee while doing lunges. That may take 2 weeks for my quads to recover.
Belloq joined us for the COT – hope you continue recovering, brother. Look forward to you being back with us in the gloom!
YHC was challenged with this week before even getting to the AO. First, Fast Tax says he isn’t going to be doing IPC at Rock City, so YHC signs up to Q at the Scrum. Then the Thang gets posted and it’s all for the Skinny Runners (God Bless ‘Em) and YHC realized that doing this at Rock City was going to make way more sense, YHC calls an audible after some advice giving on the Slack.
So, after a night of arts and crafts with the M to write down all the things and searching all of our moving boxes for the box of invisible jump ropes, YHC showed up early and the gate is locked. So after a nice warm up mosey around the track YHC was able to get inside. With some help from Bogey the board is over the gate.
YHC was impressed when Rudy jumped the fence to save on the mosey and grateful for Mahatma for bringing his speaker.
Starting exactly at about 5:30, everyone was off!
The Thang:
100 Gas Pumpers (Knees to Chest – watch the video)
50 Jump Rope
1 mile run
25 Hello Dollies (seriously, watch the video)
25 Burpees
50 Jump Rope
400-meter run
25 Hand Release Merkins (we explain a lot in the video)
25 V-Ups
50 Jump Rope
400-meter run
25 Leg Raises
25 Jungle Boi Squats – 2 spoons style(we will even do demonstrations)
50 Jump Rope
400-meter run
25 4-count flutter kicks (watch the video)
25 Bonnie Blairs (hard way – right leg and left leg counts as 1 – if there is any question about this, re-watch the video)
50 Jump Rope
400-meter run
100 Big Boy Sit-ups
50 Jump Rope
1 mile run
Watching Hawg and Rudy blast through the mile was impressive as they lapped YHC multiple times. As with any IPC workout part of the battle is physical, but most of it is mental to just keep going. Watching Frack kickstart through all of his 100 Big Boys without stopping was inspiring.
Special T-Claps to Rudy for sticking around with me while YHC did his Big Boys with some “gassers” mixed in for fun.
Overall even through all the challenges, YHC is relieved to have completed all 4 weeks of the IPC plus Week 0. Here’s to hoping next year is not easier because there is less of the Thang but becuase YHC and everyone else is a stronger HIM!
With IPC week 3 on the agenda, YHC figured it would be a low turnout. Arriving early to set up, YHC encountered Hawgcycle and the conversation went like this.
Frac: Do you have a marker or a sharpie? I want to write down the exercises.
Hawg: Are the Pax stupid? No, maybe just you are. It’s simple. 20 OH press with coupon, 20 burpees without coupon, 20 curls with coupon, 20 V-ups without coupon, 20 goblet squats with coupon, 13 man makers, then a 400 meter run. Do 5 rounds and finish with 2 400 meter runs on round 5. We don’t need to write it down.
Frac: (mumbling) I’m not toopid, I just wanted to write it down…..
Simple instructions preblast were to show up 5 minutes early. At 0530 Bolt showed. Boo boo EHd a new pax, IPC is a great opportunity to get new pax to commit. (That was slightly sarcastic).
Mahatma had the tunes rolling, he even allowed skips without penalty burpees. IPC seems to bring out the best in him. He’s a real masochist.
The best part of the morning was seeing Tenderloin join and walk a mile. That’s pretty impressive considering the man just had triple bypass surgery. The man is an inspiration to us all!
10 pax total at the Uptowner, maybe there’s a little masochist in all of us after all.
COT the multi AO Coffeteria.
Tclaps to all that posted!
SYITG
As 0530 approached, 3 Pax were ready to Ruck… but we knew we could wait for two more to join us
One of which was being a HIM for his daughter by walking her to her car before heading to Ruck.
As 0532 was upon us we started to leave and mosey through the neighborhood tour Pax members houses… Scantron, Vagabond, Hawg, Hobbs (new) and Hobbs (old)
We came back to join the Sprinters for COT
Conditions: Clear and 77 degrees. Humidity 87%. Wind 2.3 mph from the WNW.
Pax: The Bogé, Charmin, Hokie, Rudy, Triple, Boo, HG, Cyber C, and YHC
I’m using text to speech to write this back blast cents I can’t move my harms. My farms. My alarms. Delete. Backspace. BACKSPACE. Okay. Just start over. Leeland! Come here. How do I turn this off? Never mind. Stop laughing at me. You have milk coming out your nose. Just wipe your face and go to school. New Paragraph.
Hokie clearly became board during the first 3 quarters of the Saints game, as he texted me regarding the set-up for this week’s IPC. He told me what the challenge was, that setting it up as a star was stupid and then he texted “Are you stupid?” I texted “I’m not stupid.”
Charmin’s car was there when I pulled up at about 0515. I think he may have slept there. We walked up together with our cinderblocks coming upon a mass of humanity, lying on the sidewalk, shaped like a pretzel. We told The Bogé hello as we stepped over him. One by one pax members came to a cinder block workout without cinder blocks. The requirements for an F3 workout could not be much lower. It’s free, you do have to leave your house and go outside, and about twice per year you need to bring something to the workout. Fortunately our resident boy scout had a couple of PainCakes that he donated to a couple of pax and then walked to the rock pile so that he could do the workout au natural.
The Thang: Belle Ringer
Format: AMRAP for 45 minutes
Set-Up: Make a 5-point star with each point of the star being 25 yards away from the center. Scratch that. Set Up: Mark of 25 yards from the goal line and tell people to remember the order of the exercises and don’t get in each other’s way.
Workout starts with:
• 5 ManMakers in the middle. Rifle carry to cone 2 and perform 10 “We’re Not Worthy”. Farmer carry back to center.
• 5 ManMakers/Blockees in middle. Rifle carry to cone 3 and perform 15 Goblet Squats. Farmer carry back to center.
• 5 ManMakers/Blockees in middle. Rifle carry to cone 4 and perform 20 Overhead Triceps Extensions. Farmer carry back to center.
• 5 ManMakers/Blockees in the middle. Rifle carry to cone 5 and perform 25 KB Swings. Farmer carry back to center.
• 5 ManMakers/Blockees in the middle. Rifle carry to cone 5 and perform 30 Curls. Farmer carry back to middle.
Scoring: Total reps for 45 minutes of the exercises
Each complete trip is 125 reps
• T-claps to Cyber Cajun for vowing to arrive early today and executing. He was a little late to last week’s IPC. We talked about the importance of getting there early since everyone is going to want to start at 0530. He arrived at least 15 seconds before this one started.
• Mahatma was a no-show. The rumor was that he was looking for a cinder block that weighed more than 10 pounds. He finally found one, but was unable to lift it into his truck.
• T-Claps to Rudy for Marshalling enough courage to show up this morning.
• The variety of coupons used today was impressive. We had three or four actual cinder blocks. We had a couple of PainCakes. There was the natural rock. And Triple Shift brought a bag of laundry that he swears weighs 45 pounds.
• We helped each other calculate the results since there was some difficult mathematical concepts involved. Hand Grenada proved that Arkansas is at least 49th in education. Bogey came over and let him use his fingers. After staring at my feet for a while, they still couldn’t come up with the correct number. I fixed it for them below. Without further ado here are the results. Remember, you can post these on F3 Greenville’s site if you want to see how ridiculous other people’s numbers are.
o Charmin – 375
o Rudy – 375
o Triple – 373
o Hokie – 275 + a long mosey with rock to and from the rock pile
o Boo – 375
o Cyber – 300
o HG – 410
o The Bogé – 395
o YHC – 430
As 5:30 struck and there’s no Bogey, YHC grabbed the opportunity to lead the workout he thought was supposed to b his until checking the Q sheet the night before.
Warmorama of the usual stuff followed by a mosey to the rock pike where PAX were instructed to grab a rock they could curl and tricep press. Make our way to the parking area for an easy plan with challenging execution, 11s: 8 count full body rock work (squat, curl, overhead press, tricep press then reverse) on one end followed by a 25 yd. bear crawl with burpees at the end and a mosey return. With the lack of mumblechatter and plenty of grunting from Triple, YHC can assume the PAX were treated to a solid beatdown worthy of El Diablo and discovers that 11 is, in fact, the devil’s favorite number. COT
