This week Hefty inspired me with a ruck workout that left me loving/hating anything heavy. So I have decided to return the favor with a post St. Patrick's Day themed ruck (sort of) for the PAX.
An email was sent out and 8 PAX rolled up with weight on their backs!
Q also brought firehoses, Horse Shoes, and PVC pipes… more about that later…
Warmup
Parking lot mosey with zigzag follow the leader (we ran further away than usual so that latecomer Zippy had to run a little harder to catch up to us only to return to the launchpad).
15 IC Hillbillies (for DoubleCheck) <– Who was not present, uhmmm…
10 IC Cotton Pickers
10 IC Tony Hawks
5 IC Squats
5 IC Merkins
The Thang (we take everything with us)
Mosey down to the rock/block pile.
Short Circuit
- Loop fire hose through a block and drag it across the full length of the field and back (will be our timer)
- In place backward lunges, passing horse shoe between legs
- Wobbly Merkins – place PVC under block, do merkins on unsteady block.
(CIRCUIT REPEATO) then returned the blocks.
- 10 OYO Australian corn cob pull ups (Up, then from L to R, then down)
- Repeat but R to L
- Partner up for some Angel Wings (with packs on)
- 10 IC slow count australian pullups
(REPEATO OF ALL THE LOW BAR STUFF)
Continue Ruck around the back of the school, stopping for merkins, squats, dips, occasionally on our way back to the launch pad for some mary.
Mary
- Partner up – Rucks Sacks off – 10 OYO slow curb sit-ups (switch and repeat) (REPEATO)
- Half pax do 10 IC lower body russian twist (timer)
- Others half do "lucky charms". On your six, scissor kick motion with legs, passing horse shoe back and forth between legs, hoping you dont drop the lucky horse shoe on your charms. (switch and repeat)
Q reminded everyone to turn off there GPS, but then decided with our last two minutes to do a short parking lot mosey for "advertising" as there were some folks showing up to the gym this morning.
Reflection
Life can be hard, and following Jesus does NOT mean life will be come easier.
John 15:19
The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you.
But knowing we have God's grace (Love and Mercy) can change your perspective!
2 Thessalonians 3:18 – The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Don't let the world pull you down, this is not where you were meant to be, don't get comfortable here and "belong to the world".
Moleskin
- Before we even start, Diesel says "are we sure it is supposed to be 30lbs… that seems kinda heavy." Yes, it is heavy!
- We had a muddy, rainy mess, and it was the most fun I have had in while, enjoyed hanging out with the other 7 crazyies
- On our marketing run at the end, a strange white van slowly roles up by us (if you watch enough movies then you know to watch our for the white vans), but wait!… It's just School Bus doing a little "hey fellas" drive by!
- Lots of comments and jokes about hoses and sacks. Sonar seemed to be full of comments today, must be making up for all he missed while traveling. I believe his sack was haning the lowest today… had to be there…
- We will completely deny that we had anything to do with the strange lines across the practice field…
- A very low airplane flew by this morning, we needed Jeeves to identify it.
- There was so much more, but this is all i can recall. I truly had a good time out in the sloppy weather with some of my favorite people. If you weren't there, you missed out!
- Guys help me out with your moleskin in the comments.