Date: 2024-09-06
AO: thepatriot
Q: 2 percent
PAX: citrus, Jag, Big Short, bogey, Lazlo, Strange Brew, My Space, sticks, Booking, Coxswain, Legacy, Ice Tea, SAAS, Flipper, Summit, Breach, 3 mile, Goldfish, Popeye, Checkers, CableGuy, Disco, Daaa Auditor, Lucius FNGs: None
COUNT: 25
WARMUP: SSH; Imperial Walkers; Itty Bitty Arm Circles; Willie Mays Hays; Turf Ticklers; Copper Head Squats
THE THANG: Kalsu and then Reverse Kalsu
• Format
o Complete the workout for time
• Equipment
o 400 meter track or 200 meter out and back
o Coupon is needed for this workout
o EMOM timer set for 1 minute
• The Thang
o Kalsu – 100 thrusters
Start the 1-minute EMOM timer
Perform 5 burpees
As soon as you finish the burpees, start doing thrusters
When the timer goes off, do 5 burpees
Keep repeating this until you finish 100 thrusters
o After 100 thrusters, run 400 meters
o Reverse Kalsu – 100 burpees
Start your 100 burpees as soon as you get back
Don’t restart the EMOM timer. You are at the mercy of the timer as to when you get back Each time the EMOM timer goes off, 5 thrusters
Perform burpees in between until you get to 100 burpees
o Workout ends after your 100 burpees
o Record your total time
MARY: Nolan Ryan’s
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 9/10 Happy Hour at Claire & Don’s, overnight ruck + 9/11 stair climb, F3 Nation breakfast at Columbia Marina
COT: This workout is to honor 1st Lieutenant James Robert Kalsu, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army
Kalsu was All-American tackle at Oklahoma in 1967. Drafted in the 8th round by the Buffalo Bills he started 9 games and was named Bill’s rookie of the year.
While at OU, Kalsu was a member of the school’s Army ROTC program. After graduating, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant but was not called to active duty. However, not long after the Bills 1968 season ended, the call came. At the time, numerous pro athletes were eligible to be drafted but opted for the reserves, or because of their high profile careers managed to avoid the draft with deferments.
“I’m no better than anybody else”, he told his family and friends who tried to persuade him from enlisting in active duty.
In November 1969, after additional artillery training at Fort Sill in Lawton, 2nd Lt. Kalsu found himself assigned to the 101st Airborne Division “Screaming Eagles” and leading soldiers operating Firebase Ripcord high in the mountains of central Vietnam.
On July 21, 1970, Kalsu’s was killed in action. He is the only professional athlete to die in the line of duty during Vietnam.
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