Please enjoy this backblast while you still have electricity


About six weeks ago I signed up for the Ironhorse Challenge (link here for those unfamiliar).  Without getting into great detail, part of the spirit of the challenge is to both Q regularly and post away from your home or routine AO’s – to go deeper with F3; lead, get in some 2nd and 3rd F, and try new workouts.  So when The Force offered up The Wilderness Q for the first time, I immediately thought – challenge accepted! 

Warmorama:

  • SSH x 20
  • IST x 15
  • Windmill x 15
  • Cotton-Picker x 15
  • At this point the BRR crowd was delighted with the light warmup and stretches.

Thang:

  • Run to the circle
  • Side hop counter-clockwise around the circle
  • Reverse hop back around clockwise
  • Bear crawl around the circle
  • Run about halfway down the hill… quadraphillia up the Chaddsley side of the hill, bear crawl over the grass, lunge down the Hugh Torrance side.
  • Repeat.  Repeat again.  At this point the BRR crowd hates me.  Make it FOUR – REPEAT!
  • Run back to the circle
  • Makhtar N'Diayes x 20
  • Scorpion Dry Dock x 10, switch leg, 10 more
  • Plank-Jack x 20
  • Run home (Freddie Mercury at Queens Corner, apparently that’s a thing here?)

Mary:

  • Superman (however long it takes to sing the song from The Greatest American Hero)
  • Switch to banana, back to superman, back to banana
  • Peter Parker x 10 – hold it – Parker Peter x 10
  • WWII x 25
  • Plank, 10 count from each pax, recover recover

Moleskine:

Thank you The Force for the opportunity to lead.  I don’t visit The Wilderness as often as I should.  I tend to go to Night Ranger (beer + tacos > coffee + donuts).  But it’s fun to mix it up sometimes!

Hearing the BRR talk made me really miss not going this year.  BRR just feels like the F3 Superbowl.  I decided to give Tuna 200 a try this year instead.  Speaking of which, this maybe needs to be my last bootcamp for a while!

Really good crowd today, thank you all for coming, hopefully the beating was worthwhile.  I don’t know the AO super well so I tried to mix it up.  Keep all those in Hurricane Florence’s path in your prayers.