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10 pax experienced some March Madness that had nothing to do with basketball and everything to do with pain and gain. The two representatives from last weekend’s GORUCK Tough were both 1-2 minutes behind, including yours Q’ly. Here’s what we eventually did.

PAX: Deerhunter, Mr. Incredible, Oilermaker, Dr. Freud, Campbells, Minion, Atticus, Thunder, Scarecrow, Editor (QIC).

[Was there a pre-run? As of presstime I don’t know. ]

WARMUP

SSH x20

Windmill x12ic

Bean Pickers x15ic

Motivator 5-to-1

Parking Lot Lap back to Portico

THE THANG

“The Anaconda”

Merkins x5ic

Partner caterpillar merkins x5ic

Whole team caterpillar merkins x10 cc

Merkins x5ic (Total of 40 merkins just in case Harvard asks

Church Lap counter-clockwise to the big pine

Low crawl from big pine to Block Shed

“Together We Move Mountains”

Pile 10 usable blocks into a mound, pax plank arms’ length apart facing north and pull each block through to the next pax, assembly line style, until all blocks are through. Then pax runs to end of line to face south and continue pulling.

Everyone got 40 pulls in, 20 each side. We made it out near PacRat’s Dumpster.

Circle up for …

Block Thrusters x21 ic

Block Overhead Lunge Jumps x10ic (5 each leg)

Burpees w/jumps over blocks x10 oyo

Block Thrusters x15 ic

Block Overhead Lunge Jumps x10ic (5 each leg)

Burpees w/jumps over blocks x10 oyo

Block Thrusters x10 ic

Block Overhead Lunge Jumps x10ic (5 each leg)

Burpees w/jumps over blocks x10 oyo

CARRY MARY

At western edge of gravel lot, partner Dora

Farmer’s carry blocks to other end and back; combine with partner on 6 to honor the 101st Airborne with:

101 2-ct flutter kicks

101 LBCs
Mosey to flag

15-second low plank, counting as our yoga for the day because, as cadre said, “You don’t get bigger, faster and stronger from working out. You get bigger, faster and stronger from how you RECOVER from working out.”

MOLESKIN

Well, Minion said it best at the COT when I said this was a taste of Friday’s welcome party: “Wow, that REALLY makes we want to try one.” I detected some sarcasm. Maybe not the best sales pitch. It was an honor to not only finish the tremendous tasks of the weekend but also to bring it back to Bethel today though. I remember Scarecrow last summer doing the “Things we learned at the Tough” Q, so I figured I’d follow suit. Challenge excellence and do right by people, they say. I haven’t been able to post many mornings this month, but it was nice to do the Wednesday night ruck and Thursday boot camp combo for the second consecutive week. Great to see Mr. Incredible, Oilermaker, Campbells, Minion, and other true blue a.m. regulars that I don’t see as much I’d like. I might see Scarecrow as much as I see my son awake lately. Speaking of sons, it’s so cool to see Thunder out with Atticus. It’s fulfilling to see the strong bond, the shared joy through misery, and the knowledge that Thunder can be a beast if he keeps posting with the grown folks.  Deerhunter is such a determined blessing out there, while Dr. Freud is someone I hope to get to know better as Duke and Carolina continue on a collision course in the NCAA tourney. I take it from the distinct lack of counting aloud that maybe it was a decent beatdown. Sorry for the crawls. I know I couldn’t have been the only one with absolutely heinous smelling clothes, but, trust me, we crawled through worse on Friday night. I try not to let the weather make alterations to the plan unless it’s an extreme case. Building grit, you know. I hope I wasn’t the only person who felt like I had been hit by friendly fire a few hours after the workout. I might have been a little overzealous, but, hey, I was coming off of something cool and wanted to share it, even if it was laced with pain. I hope everyone enjoyed.

Thursday, March 21⋅5:30 – 6:15am

Pax in attendance:  Coors, Kato, Muck

QIC:  Kato

Warmup Description:
Big Arm Circles x 21 Forward
Small Arm Circles x 21 Backward

Bean Pickers x21?

SSHx21

21 Imperial Storm Kickers

21 broken windshield wipers

The Thang:

Recreating the Roberts Ridge Memorial WOD:

250m Run down Death Row

10 Ruck Clean & Jerks

20 Ruck Swings

250m Run to Main Square Park Pavilion (dry area)

30 RuckThrusters

40 Situps

500m Run back to TROY Parking Lot

50 8-count Bodybuilders

Thanks to Editor for the WBS explanation!!

60 Wall Ball Shots (basically a thruster with a shot putt throw) substituted with 60 Ruck Squats since I didn’t know this or could find it on the Lexicon

Mary:
Bruce Lee Planks with ruck on x 10 each punching arm for 6 rounds.

Jackie Chan Planks with ruck on x 10 each punching arm to the sides for 6 rounds.  

Ruck Squats until 6:15am

CO-Shih

Moleskin:  Right after the warmup, I asked Coors what 1000m looked like.  And without a skip of a heartbeat he said down to the fringe of Main Square Park and back but through the trail under Ridge and across Kennedy.  Coors continues to heal and he got his miles in about 4.5 I believe today after warmups.  Mr. Brown and him did mention something about their hips from the Wednesday run or that they couldn’t quite warm up right.  Hoping that the weather is playing tricks on their bodies.  I’m keeping in mind to avoid Merkins so Coors can heal or make them perfect slow Merkins for the stretch if anything going forward at a lower number.

I guess I could have made up a Ruck Q workout but this WOD that was for a great cause and benefit/patch I was unable to do a while back.  Perfect timing for the slight rain this morning.  Glad we got the last two days in without the pour down starting yet.  The Gods are looking down on F3NWIND.

One of my favorite things as of late in addition to the Motivators are the variations of Planks I came up with.  I hope to bring Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan Planks to the other A.O’s in April.  Muck was a champ as usual doing whatever the QIC hands out.  I play some tricks with him to test him during the workout by trying to deviate from the original workout.  He of course said “No” to anything I was trying to suggest.  You passed another Kato test brother.  Thus far, Muck and Coors are high in the Shih brother race this year.  As you may or may not have noticed, I’m signed up for some Q’s at Patmos and Hubs I believe so I’m super excited believe it or not.

Thanks again for the opportunity to lead you guys.  It’s a small group but we hopefully will have a plan to gain more new PAX as the weather warms up.  It’s easy to lead a small group so I’m trying to step outside my comfort zone and go to the other Northwest Indiana spots to lead a bigger workout.  Either way, I must thank HHH for getting me to my first F3 workout.  My Manniversary is coming up in May.  I’ll double check that date but I’m torn where to do that at depending on the day it falls on.

-Shihbone

PAX: Kato, Mister Brown, Coors

We started the fun with Kato locking his keys in his car. Fortunately he was able to run off his frustration. After about a mile and a half, Kato continued on while Mister Brown and I turned back to catch any pax who were running the second leg. We didn’t find anyone, but we worked up a good sweat. The rain stayed away and it wasn’t too cold so we shed our outer layers. We joined back up with Kato and discussed topics like March Madness, running pace, upcoming events, Mister Brown’s upcoming flight test (sending you prayers, brother), and what to do when you lock your keys in your car. We finished with about 7.4 miles run. That was pretty good considering how sluggish we felt. Mister Brown drove Kato to his other car so he could at least have some sort of transportation. He displayed why he is a HIM. Good work today, guys!