Centuries, Redux

BEATDOWN.   Do 100 reps of each exercise OYO. When an exercise is finished, yell “Mayhem!” On “Mayhem”, all PAX stop their current exercise and run up the hill and back down. Resume the exercise from where it was paused. After calling for...

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The Walking Wounded

YHC popped out of bed this morning without an alarm – rare, then headed to the bathroom, like all of us middle-aged men do.  As I was getting ready, you know, primping myself and listening to my morning podcasts, something felt off.  A...

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Hiroo Onoda

Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese soldier who lived and fought on Lubang Island for many years after WWII ended.  Refusing to believe that Japan had surrendered, he hid in the jungle and conducted raids on local villages for many decades after the war...

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A Simple Beatdown for Simple Men

BEATDOWN.   All stations were in a straight line (kind of).  Run from #1 to #2 to #3 back to #2 and then to #1.  Rinse and repeat.  Increase the rep count by 1 at each station. Station #1: KTG MKs (dc) Station #2: Dead Bugs (dc) Station #3...

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Mayhem Rock Party

This beatdown was a last minute adaptation of a CSAUP from The Speakeasy a little over a year ago.  It was a bad idea then and it did not improve at all with age.   TIME WASTERS.  We could have had more time to do the actual workout if we...

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The Q is Who?

You know how sometimes you look around and wonder who is the Q and then you realize crap,  it’s you?  Well … that’s not exactly what happened this morning, but it was close.  The Q, whose name most of us didn’t recognize, was MIA.  In hopes that...

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Can I Buy a Vowel

TIME WASTERS.  On the move   BEATDOWN.   We moved between 2 stations by rifle carrying our rocks.  At the first station, we started with 1 exercise and added 1 each round.  At the second station, we started with 5 and removed 1 each...

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The Rhody: Thunder and Lightning

Another simple to execute beatdown, but inexplicably botched explanation by Zima.  The PAX eventually understood the workout though.  All was fine.   TIME WASTERS. Heroes come already prepared.   BEATDOWN.   At Station #1 (Bottom...

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F3 Apologies

MAJOR apologies to Drip and Huck for the easy beatdown.  OK, I’ll throw Cruiser in there too, but I suspect he appreciated the lack of leg work given his impending race shortly after.  I dumbly thought some other runners would post since the...

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That Escalated Quickly

TIME WASTERS. Sure, it’s Flatline so we’ll do a half Slaughter Starter – but only to get under VG’s skin.  But wait, where is VG going?  Why is he running away?  Apparently, he decided to chase down our FNG who was circling the perimeter of...

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Simple, Yet Effective

TIME WASTERS. Please tell me that you didn’t come here to read how we “warmed up”.  Something that should be done BEFORE arrival.   BEATDOWN.   Overhead Press (with cinder block) x 10 IC   Rifle Carry Reverse Peloton from block...

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