Author: f3nano

DATE: 2023-04-27
AO: Highlands
Q: Toolbox
PAX: Trolley, Jag, Major Payne, LTD, Katniss, Hard Knox
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: ssh, air squats, imperial walkers, windmills, down dog/calves, worlds okayiest stretch, Cobra Kai, merkins, mosey
THE THANG: 2 rounds of 12 different exercises 1 min on 30s off, rinse and repeat. Bonnie Blair with a hop, ratchet squat, no surrender, James bond (pew pew), hover hops, kick through merkin, toe taps merkin, and hover pulse merkin, twisting pistons, black widow knee slide, lateral MTN climbers, and v up pulses. with a short mosey in between MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: dad’s camp, 5 yr anniversary, Trolley and XL leaving us planning a send off/beat down for good measure so we are not forgotten.
COT: Consistent effort in all things. It’s the only thing that works. In addition to the consistent effort you put in on your physical health, spend consistent energy on your emotional and mental health. It will pay off but has to be practiced consistently just like everything else.

DATE: 2023-04-24
AO: Mondaynightruckers
Q: Rocketman
PAX: Blip, Mincemeat, Chasqui, Tron
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: hill climbs right off the parking lot.

THE THANG:

6.5 miles. Four stops.

1. The setting
The Battle of Bataan was three months long, three months of slog and misery. Japanese efforts throughout the Pacific had been almost effortless… Except in the Phillipines.

The three months were brutal. 120,000 combined US and Fillipino troops were faced by 75,000 attacking Japanese troops. US naval and air power in the area had been neutralized, leading to an effective isolation of the troops on the ground.

By the end of the conflict, 10,000 of the combined US/Fillipino troops were killed while somewhere between 8000 and 22000 Japanese troops died.

On April 8, 1942, the senior U.S. commander on Bataan, Major General Edward P. King, saw the futility of further resistance, and put forth proposals for capitulation.

April 9, 1942: the remaining weary, starving and emaciated American and Filipino defenders on the battle-swept Bataan Peninsula surrendered.

2. The pathway

The forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of between 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O’Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga.

Due to the huge number of POWs, a logistical nightmare was created: what to do with all the sick, starving, and wounded troops? Malaria had ravaged both sides. Food had run out. The Japanese had their eyes elsewhere, so what to do?

Once the surviving prisoners arrived in Balanga, the overcrowded conditions and poor hygiene caused dysentery and other diseases to spread rapidly. The Japanese did not provide the prisoners with medical care, so U.S. medical personnel tended to the sick and wounded with few or no supplies.

Upon arrival at the San Fernando railhead, prisoners were stuffed into sweltering, brutally hot metal box cars for the one-hour trip to Capas, in 43 °C (110 °F) heat. At least 100 prisoners were pushed into each of the unventilated boxcars.

3. Arrival.

Upon arrival at the Capas train station, they were forced to walk the final 9 miles (14 km) to Camp O’Donnell, a former US military reservation. Conditions at Camp O’Donnell were primitive. The POWs lived in bamboo huts, sleeping on the bamboo floor often without any covering. There was no plumbing; water was scarce. Weakened by malaria, dysentery was rampant. Medicine was in short supply. Diet was roughly 1500 calories a day.

Along the route of the main march, perhaps as many as 500 Americans and perhaps 2,500 Filipino soldiers were killed. In Camp O’Donnell, perhaps some 26,000 Filipino soldiers and some 1,500 Americans died of starvation and disease. In all, of the some 22,000 Americans (soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines) captured by Japanese forces on the Bataan Peninsula, only about 15,000 returned to the United States, a death rate of more than 30 percent.

Camp O’Donnell was recaptured by the United States Army, the Philippine Commonwealth Army, and the Philippine Constabulary on 30 January 1945.

It was the largest US surrender in history.

4. Prisoners of the Bataan Death March & Honor items

Ramon Bagatsing
Bert Bank
Lewis C. Beebe
Bull Benini
Clifford Bluemel
Albert Braun
Thomas F. Breslin
William E. Brougher
Albert Brown (American veteran)
Lawrence S. Churchill
Robert W. Levering
Vicente Lim
Jose B. Lingad
Maxon S. Lough
Fidel Segundo
Guillermo B. Francisco
Robert Sheats
Austin Shofner
Luther R. Stevens
Robert P. Taylor
Mario Tonelli
Thomas J. H. Trapnell

COT:

Those who brought honor items shared the stories behind who they were honoring.

DATE: 2023-04-26
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: Fish Fry
PAX: Mr. Hand, Gherkin, Purple Rain, Kodiak, SPINAL TAP, sticks FNGs: Attache’, DR Pax Putter
COUNT: 10
WARMUP: IWs, Michael Phelps, SSHs, Mountain Man Poopers, World’s Greatest Stretch into Hamstring Stretch, Supine Shoulder Mobility, Supine Single Leg Hip Openers THE THANG:
Dora style workout the completes one one team got to the required reps. The Dora Workout 75 Legs over coupons in cadence
100 Reverse Superman
20 BDE burpees
100 curls
100 Reverse plank march
75bent over rows
100 tricep extensions or dips
Next
Manmaker ring of fire with Pax in goblet squat position
Batwings
20 LBACs forward
20 LBACs reverse
10 seal claps
15 Moroccan night clubs
20 overhead claps

MARY: Plank saws in honor of @Magoo, and LBCs
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Backpacking, Boneathon, Dad’s Camp, Memorial Day Murph COT:
Was recently at the funeral of the 22 yo son of my long-time work colleague who lost his battle against drug addiction. There was a ton of support from their friends and community, so much so that they had to open the gym and overflow room, and put chairs in the lobby. After the funeral as we were talking about whether we could make it to the family house due to the large crowd, someone made an insightful comment that they would just wait until about a month from now when the visitors and meals have gone away and the family has to go on living their daily life. It reminded me that supporting one another can be something big like a wedding, funeral or a move. Often, however, bearing one another’s burdens are in simple issues like asking about how work is going, how their diagnosis went, and just generally checking up. Both of the big and small ways are a means of fulfilling the intent in Galatians 6 to bear one another’s burdens, and in so doing, fulfill the law of Christ.

DATE: 2023-04-26
AO: Compound
Q: Peanuts
PAX: Monte Karlo, Jenner, Zeus, Hightower, Poe, Battleship, Doodles, Mule, Popeyes, Yard Sale, Snake (Will Harris) FNGs: @woodpecker (Willy Loman)
COUNT: 13
WARMUP: SSH, WMH, CP, DD, HSS, AS
THE THANG: about 10 min of burpee ladders across the field, RB to the underground for some DORA. P1 runs all the way up and back P2 does reps, switch. Merkins, MHs, OH claps, LBC, trash pickers. MARY: pickle pointers; H2H
ANNOUNCEMENTS: backpacking; murph; dads camp, bone-a-thon
COT: As indicated by the title today was all about the importance of opposites and the opportunities they provide. Out of the gloom comes the glory. SYITG.

DATE: 2023-04-24
AO: Memorial-Murph-Wod
Q: Hightower
PAX: Zeus, Battleship, Peanuts, Hightower
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP:
Lots of stretching and warmups

THE THANG:
Mile Run then 12 rounds:
5 pull ups
10 merkins
15 air squats
1/2 mile run

MARY:
Quick Mary

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:
Grit! Got to have it to get through these mental battles.