7 PAX, all ruckers covered over 4!miles on the trail this morning. Trail was in good shape, except for the Merrillville portion.
Good Wandavision, Mando and Tribe discussions, among others.
No runners today.
Fonzie
Turning Up The Heat @ The Hub
Date: January 26, 2021
PAX: Al Gore, Atticus, Bob Villa, Bozo (QIC), Campbells, Editor, Fonzie, HHH, Mr. Incredible, Thunder
10 PAX avoided the snow plows and slid into The Hub for an early morning beatdown led by YHC. We did the following:
Warm-a-rama
SSH X 15IC
Moroccan Night Club X 15IC
Hillbilly X 15IC
Bean Picker X 15IC
SSH X 15IC
The Thang (Part One)
Farmer’s Carry (not Fireman’s Carry – thank you Editor and your unwilling model for showing YHC what a Fireman’s Carry actually involves)
Partner One grabbed both coupons and started making way to the south retention pond going around the east side of the church.
Partner Two stayed back and did 10 perfect squats then moseyed up to Partner One to switch roles.
The Thang (Part Two)
10-1 Perfect Curls / Perfect Merkins ladder
Mosey downhill (or Penguin Slide for some) / Bear Crawl uphill
Repeatto Farmer’s Carry to the north hill going around the west side of the church.
The Thang (Part Three)
Circle up with coupon or ruck for Ring of Fire
Shuffle left and right on QIC’s command
Perfect Squat X 10IC
Shuffle left and right on QIC’s command
Coupon Complex X 10IC
The Thang (Part Four)
Line up at hill facing towards MO7S
7-1 Military Press / Side Straddle Snow Angels ladder
Mosey downhill / Quadraphelia (apparently not “quadrapalegia” as YHC called it initially) uphill
Mosey to flag then detour to forest grove area on west side of church to avoid rapidly moving snowplows
Mary
Each exercise AMRAP for 60 seconds with ruck/coupon
Flutter Kicks
WWIs
Overhead Press Hold
Merkins
Ruck Swings
Moleskin
Quite honestly I did not know what to expect going into today as I have not participated in many snow-covered beat downs, let alone lead one yet. Appreciate the advice from Mr. Incredible yesterday to push through with what I had planned and just modify as necessary. I came close to changing our initial ladder out of concern we would have a tough time keeping traction up and down the hill but it seemed to have worked okay. The penguin slides down the hill I saw seemed to be intentional…
Definitely showed my rookie status again by misnaming a couple of exercises and losing my breath on the cadence count for our first Coupon Complex. Another opportunity to learn and improve, as I hope to do with each time I have the humble honor of leading this group of HIM.
In between the fun and laughter of sliding around, critiquing our Side Straddle Snow Angel artwork, and pegging Thunder with snowballs, I hope everyone got a good challenge today.
Until next time…
SYITG,
Bozo
BACKBLAST — 1/23/2021 — Bethel Winter Mystery Tour
20 Pax showed up for single-digit temperatures to get after it!!! I wanted to keep us moving to keep us warm, and we did accomplish that. Here’s an itemized list of our accomplishments.
PAX: Al Gore, Atticus, Bert, Bob Villa, Class Act, Dr. Freud, Editor, Fonzie, HHH, Lights Out (QIC), Minon, Mufasa, Mustang Sally (FNG), Optimus, PacRat, Scarecrow, Spur, Taxman, The Mick, and Thunder.
PRE-RUCKERS: Mufasa, The Mick, Scarecrow, Class Act, Dr. Freud
PRE-RUNNERS: HHH, Spur, Lights Out
STARSKY: Oilermaker
Warmup:
THE MOTIVATOR 1-7
IST x20ic
BEAN PICKERS x15ic
ARM CIRCLES x10 each way
SQUATS x10ic
The Thang:
Grab your Coupons and head to back retention pond.
Ladder 10-1 on Top of Hill
Coupon Complex 1-10 bottom of Hill Makhtar N’Diayes
Head to south parking lot
Ladder 10-1 on both sides of lot due to large number of Pax
Incline Merkins on one side and the other side was Decline Merkins
Partner up for Dora
The timer was to run to the other side of the lot near retention pond
Get after It, As a Team
Curls x100
Chest Press on Your 6 x150
Coupon Squats x200
Overhead Press x250
When finished we went over to the retention area on Broadway lined up with our backsides to Broadway for HHH Monkey Humpers!!! (20ic)
Mary:
LBC x25ic
COBRA/DOWNWARD DOG BROGA
SUPERMAN
Moleskin:
Guys, I appreciate all of you posting on a cold morning, but I had to say, “Thank You, Lord, for giving us Sunshine.” I want to give a shout-out to Minion’s buddy and FNG (Mustang Sally). You killed it out there today! … Also I continue to be impressed with everyone’s growth with F3. We are all here for each other, and we continue to lift each other up. I didn’t hear a lot of mumble chatter today, and I take it everyone was working hard and was gassed. … Well, when we went to the South lot I did have to ask the nice young lady to move her car before I had 18 pax pick up her car and move it for her!!! I did practice my spoken grammar with the Lady since my written grammar is not the best — or so I am told by the youngsters. I do know now that I am a Cunning Linguist! We needed to add the Monkey Humpers on Broadway thanks to HHH’s comment in the Preblast about soap grabbers and Monkey Humpers … LOL, what a gesture. That Lady hasn’t called the police … yet.
Thanks again for letting me lead you all again!!!
BACKBLAST 1/25/21 Oval Miles
8 PAX posted this morning at the Colonel (only 7 finished).
3 PAX completed heart rate pace 5k while the rest of ran around the track for 3.35 miles or so.
BACKBLAST 1/22/21 Friday Miles
8 PAX posted this morning in Crown Point. 4 runners covered 5 miles while 4 ruckers covered up to 3.85 miles on the trail.