Two audacious, intrepid ruckers stubbornly kicked the fartsack in the nuts and practiced for the upcoming Men’s retreat (April 21, 2016 in beautiful Asheville, NC). Only problem was they missed the bus to school and had to hike all the way to school with their backpacks and lunchboxes weighing them down. Upon arrival, they encountered twelve others, including the crusty headmaster of the day (YHC) who had rolled out of the wrong side of the bed and into a swamp the day before. YHC was madder than a wet hen rolling up to the AO, but was pleased to see a large crowd despite warnings of severe retribution (maybe YHC should take this approach more often).
Knowing that a large part of the planned festivities called for an even number of PAX and no backup plan in place, YHC counted the arriving PAX nervously, thought he was safe until Hummer rolled in with the shovel flag (as is his custom), but was saved by Santa Plinko jingling in on his white sleigh. #angersubsiding. Here is what happened next:
COP (all in cadence unless otherwise noted)
- SSH X25
- Mountain Climber X20
- Merkin X10
- IST X20 (intended on 15 but lost count during hilarious mumble chatter)
- Curls X10
- Skull Crusher X10
- Get on your 6 – YHC waited for all to be seated as if to start a Mary-type exercise, but called recover immediately just to be a jerk.
Thang-a-gong
Partner up with a PAX with a similarly sized kettle bell. Catch-me-if-you-can was commenced. Partner 1 begins farmer carrying both bells while Partner 2 does five burpees and runs to catch up and take over bells. Continue all the way around the large square. PAX does KB swings until everyone arrives. REPEATO
Back to canopied circle. ELEVENS – start with 10 goblet squats, run to fountain and do 1 jump squat. Continue decreasing/increasing until you reach 1 goblet and 10 jumps. ETS
Catch-me-if-you-can; one more time around. Pierogi asked to audible the burpees. Of course – let’s do 10 instead of 5.
Back to canopied circle. SIXES – start with 5 skull crushers, run to fountain and do one dip. Continue increasing/decreasing until you reach 1 SC and 5 dips.
Mary
Homer to Marge with Kettle Bell. Five cycles; DOH!
Recover Recover, COT
Moleskin
- Kotters to Santiago. I could see my reflection in his new kettlebell. It’s black and shiny like the Batmobile. We’re all very thankful that Mark and Michele are back home in time for the holidays and all surgeries went well.
- Kotters also to Tri Lam. He was there Monday but I wasn’t. The leg is all healed up and he’s on a mission.
- Fair amount of running for a kettle bell workout, which is becoming a pattern. If you want to run less, sign up to Q on a Tuesday and choose your own adventure.
- Kettle Bells are fun.
- F3Race City is awesome.
- Prayers for all the unspoken difficulties that folks are experiencing around the holidays. Thanks to Chief for making sure we always think about those we haven't seen in a while. Reach out to your #truckcity brothers and say hello.
- We're going to start recycling names that haven't been used in a while. Next one up is Mailman.
- My special thanks go out to H.E. of F3Metro, the one who first put the EH on LW. Thank you for your service, brother. You and the mighty Marines do so much to protect our country and you’ll be in our prayers in the months ahead.