Warmup
IPC is warm enough
The Thang
A two-minute-on-the-two-minute (2MOM) time-based workout, Pax performed the following rounds in perfect form:
- 50 Kraken Burpees (3 hand release merkins to a burpee = 1)
- Run 400 meters (1 lap)
- 50 BDE burpees (burpee, to a Bonnie Blair/jumping lunge (1 on each leg), to a squat = 1)
- Run 800 meters (2 laps)
- 50 Bonnie Blairs/Jumping Lunge (right leg-left leg= 1)
- Run 1200 meters (3 laps)
While performing the rep exercises, an annoyingly loud airhorn would sound every two minutes over the kickass music and the Pax stopped whatever rep they were on and ran 50 yards (cones were setup 50 yards apart) before picking up on whatever rep they were on.. back and forth, back and forth until they finished the round they were on and went off to run the number of laps associated with the round.
The pax unanimously loved the inspired workout and briefly considered hoisting YHC on their shoulders for a victory parade after the six finished.
Chatter
- Mater accused the Q of having a pre-written workout..
- Kaczynski tried to slow Pesci down by blocking his way during the 50 yard dashes (Pasci still dominated the field)
- Twinkle, the undisputed hero of 2021 IPC, again came through to enabled all of this fun with his boss speaker system
Reflection
Gratitude and Perspective
It is YHC’s opinion that we are all ridiculously blessed by the great sky Q to live in the time and place we do and that it is important to keep perspective through the day-to-day struggles we face. I encourage everyone to reflect on the billions of less fortunate people who came before us throughout human history. We do not have to worry as they did about being eaten by lions, or dying horribly from the bubonic plague, or becoming crippled by polio, or any number of diseases our modern miracle health care system has eradicated or offers us protection against.. nor do we truly have to worry about starving to death like the ~25,000 people who starve to death every single day across the global (~434 people starved to death in the time it took me to write this backblast).. not to mention the countless who starved throughout human history. All because of the abundance of opportunities we have in this great nation which enables us to provide for ourselves and our loved ones. We are all blessed and we are all positioned to pay it forward.