Mock Ruck for ARC

DATE: 2022-02-05
AO: Olympus
Q: Hightower
PAX: Old Bay, Lucius, Faceplant, Hightower, Pep Talk, Rambler, swish, Yardbird FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
SSH, prisoner squats, hula hips, WMH, Cherry Pickers

THE THANG:
Voluntold Rambler as Team Lead, destination Lake Royal. Start with 8 PAX & 3 coupons. Penalty burpees for team not staying together. Short stop for ruck shoulder press. Mix of pace, shuffle, walk & ruckie bobby. AAR provided to Rambler as team lead, then relieved of his duty. Lucius provide beatdown at Lake Royal
HT took group around the lake
Short on time, group agreed to 2x time back with coupons. Ugh

MARY:
None
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:
Saved for Olympus Q

Drenched in the Trenches

DATE: 2022-02-04
AO: Atlantis
Q: Rogue
PAX: Infinity, Rogue
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WARMUP: Side Straddle Hops, Hill Billy Walkers, Cherry Pickers, Copperhead Squats, Atlas, Side Dips
THE THANG: Mosey to Stadium stairs. Snaked the stairs to the end and back. Top for ten merkins. Bottom for alternating cadence count ten flutter kicks and American hammers. This proved enough to soak front and backside.
Mosey along boardwalk stopped for derkins, dips, and urkins until the upper was wasted. Mosey further down and did squatting seal claps. Mosey back and did some plank jacks under the bridge.
Mosey to starting point for Mary
MARY: Freddie’s Mercurys, LBCs, American Hammers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Annual Ruck coming up in two weeks on 19FEB22. Long event so it’s recommended to do training at least once before the event. Trainings are Sunday mornings in Falls Church. See @Infinity for more details.
COT: We remember our brothers both by blood and by creed who are enduring times of difficulty. May we all, young and old, be given strength of body and mind to complete the tasks on this earth to which we are called.

Soggy Escalation

DATE: 2022-02-04
AO: Patriot
Q: CableGuy
PAX: Bone, Ice Tea, Big Short, Lucius, Flipper, Fish Fry, Sunshine, Shake and Bake, Maguire, Maj. Payne, Booking, Wedding Singer, Elvis, Lazlo FNGs: None
COUNT: 15
WARMUP: SSH, Arm Circles, Cherry Pickers, WMH, Down Dog
THE THANG: Rounds of escalating exercises punctuated by a 400M run after each round. We ran about 2.5 miles. The rounds were: 5 x Burpee, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, then a lap.
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, 20 x Overhead Press, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, 20 x Overhead Press, 25 x Mountain Climber IC, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, 20 x Overhead Press, 25 x Mountain Climber IC, 30 x Coupon Chest Press, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, 20 x Overhead Press, 25 x Mountain Climber IC, 30 x Coupon Chest Press, 35 x BWS, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, 20 x Overhead Press, 25 x Mountain Climber IC, 30 x Coupon Chest Press, 35 x BWS, 40 x SSH IC. MARY: LBC
ANNOUNCEMENTS: So many. Mainly ARC and the Fish Fry polar plunge.
COT: Accountability. Most people don’t know you come out and do this stuff in the rain. We hold each other accountable. Bobby Bowden had a nice take on it: ‘Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God knows about you.’

Citius Altius Fortius – Communiter

DATE: 2022-02-04
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: Disco
PAX: 3 mile, Kodiak, Magoo, Old Bay, Poe, Spokes, sticks, Yardbird FNGs: Mr Hand, Attaché
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: M Phelps, ssh, CP, WMHays, D Dog/Cobra
THE THANG:
Slalom – zig-zag jumps, lunge walk, stairs x3
Ski Jump – jump ups, step ups 50 (Monthly Challenge)
Ice Dancing – Carioca, backward run to coupons
Biathlon – rifle carry back across field
Curling – coupon curls, KB swings – 50
Derkins, goblet squats 25
Speed Skating – Bonnie Blairs, Apollo Ohno – 25
Mascots – Seal Claps, Bear Crawl across field
Luge – Inverted Shoulder Taps 40, air squats 25
ANNOUNCEMENTS: ARC in 15 days
COT: Progress, not Perfection. Build a ladder toward your goals.

EMOM, Coups, and Rifle Carry… oh my!

DATE: 2022-02-04
AO: Sparta
Q: Lightyear
PAX: Gadget, I-Beam, Obadiah, Pop Fly, Roddick, Zeus
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: SSH, Cherry Pickers, Hairy Rockets, Michael Phelps, oyo stretch
THE THANG: the PAX grabbed their favorite coupon to be by their side throughout todays beatdown! – 3 Min EMOM: 10 goblet squats, 10 coupon merkins, 5 KBS
– 400 m coupon carry
– 4 Min EMOM: 10 Goblet Squats, 10 Coupon Merkins, 5 KBS
– 400 m coupon carry
– 5 Min EMOM: 10 Goblet Squats, 10 Coupon Merkins, 5 KBS
– 400 m coupon carry with a rifle carry around the corners
– 6 Min EMOM: 10 Goblet Squats, 10 Coupon Merkins, 5 KBS
– 400 m coupon carry with a rifle carry around the corners
MARY:
1 x big boy sit up (a bit short on time)
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Arch, should have a 2nd F event soon.
COT: “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Capt Eddie Rickenbacker, American Fighter Ace, WWI