FNGs represent Donuts, Rogue and Toga.
Backblast 2019-09-17: Iron-PAX challenge week 3
Flatley had the Q on the “halfway-to-St.-Paddy’s-Day” #Sweatshop (Lake Norman’s Premier Nighttime Workout™), but the F3 overlords had something else in mind than an Irish dance-inspired workout involving various skipping and kicking exercises, Storming the Castle and, of course, lots of post-#BRR running from the British army.
Having unwisely suggested the PAX attempt the IRONPAX Challenge during preseason week, YHC could not let them down now when most needed, especially during the Week 3 Snot Woggle that this beatdown turned out to be.
Warm-Ups
A variety of warm-up exercises were enjoyed by all. Extra focus on the disclaimer tonight, followed by a few airborne-demonstrations of what was to come. Some of the PAX expressed confusion about what a “coupon” would be, thinking (hahaha, much mistakenly) that it was akin to a get-out-of-jail-free card in Monopoly. Little did they know that there were 15 coupons (40-lb. concrete slabs purchased by the Sweatshop-named Swing State) and a couple of bricks (you never know when Duvall and his running arms would show up) in the back of the Q’s Honda Pilot, waiting at the school, and that each PAX member’s jail term would be exactly 43 minutes, no exceptions.
THE THANG
Mosey to the school. Select your coupon. Country music started in the Honda to provide distraction. Some FGL, Dierks Bentley, and Garth Brooks accompanied the workout, along with some other good cadence music.
The IronPAX challenge followed, namely a timed, 43-minute beatdown consisting of accumulating reps as follows:
10 Pull-ups
15 Burpees, each finished with a lateral jump over the coupon
20 Coupon curls
25 Coupon squat-presses
30 Gas pumps (reverse crunches)
[A total of 100 reps per cycle].
Repeato. Repeato. Repeato until you can’t breathe. Repeato until you can’t stand. Repeato even if Hawkeye continues like a monotonous pull-up burpee robot with a new battery and programmed instructions to seek and destroy the evil Greenwood overlords. Hawkeye did not finish until sometime in the 800s, which everyone was on pace to complete at the five-minute mark, but no one else was able to repeat at that pace through the second round.
Finally, the Q called time at 43 minutes of this Snot Woggle. He does not recall stinking so badly at the end of a workout, especially considering we did not leave a 50-meter area for 43 minutes. His M agreed upon his return home.
COT
Having little left to even jog back to the Green (and realizing a job to the Green would require a jog back to return the Coupons to the church), the Q called an audible and we had the COT at the school parking lot. Thanksgiving for the MS Ride team that has raised about $85,000 so far, with Nero and The Duke among those leading the way.
Thanksgiving for Hawkeye’s cooler full of water bottles, and for Stalker, Donuts and Early helping the Q return the coupons and two bricks to the church so Swing State’s morning crew would not miss a rep.
Solid effort, men! Everyone dialed it up tonight!