{"id":27319,"date":"2026-08-30T11:47:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=27319"},"modified":"2026-08-30T11:47:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:47:53","slug":"thurst-traps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2026\/08\/thurst-traps\/","title":{"rendered":"Thurst Traps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>TIME WASTERS.<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They were so unimportant that I forgot what we did, except for the 5 penalty burpees for Ziffel disrespecting the time of the rest of the PAX.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>BEATDOWN.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grab two cinder blocks and farmer carry them\u00a0 to the parking lot by the playground. That\u2019s harder than it seems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every ten minutes, \u201crun\u201d (or \u201cmall walk\u201d as some people suggested) the Rubber Ducky \/ Cruiser route (if you know, you know!).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s the real beatdown:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Move your cinder blocks down the parking lot. Start by the playground and travel to the end, stopping at each island. But it\u2019s a little bit of a back-and-forth workout. When you get to an island:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If there are cinder blocks, do:<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 Burpovers and 15 Thrusters<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Farmer carry both blocks to the next island<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 Blockees and 15 Gas Pumps<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Run back to start, stopping at each island<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If there are no cinder blocks, do:<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(when going away from playground) 15 Captain Thors<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(when returning to playground) 15 Spider Merkins<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Run to next island<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>DONE.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>NMM.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ziffel has trouble keeping his shirt on, but when you are that damn sexy, you might as well flaunt it. My shirt, on the other hand, will be super glued, stapled, and duct taped to make sure it doesn\u2019t accidentally come off.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YHC saw things I never thought were possible from Van Gogh and Head Hunter, but I\u2019m not entirely sure they actually happened due to my own delirium so I won\u2019t state them here. Just know that they were almost surreal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crash is special. He also can talk a lot. Sometimes what he says is meaningful.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Root Canal is an inspiration to us all. When given the option to quit, he politely declined. There were not a lot of polite things said to the Q today, but this gentleman declined the offer to end the workout in a complimentary way.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When we were young, most of us learned that if we don\u2019t have anything nice to say, don\u2019t say anything at all. In related news, Sandman was pretty silent today. But don\u2019t let the silence fool you, he crushed the beatdown.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">VG is a stud. That is clearly evidenced by his performance over the last two days. But why then, hack this workout? Why not just destroy the mere humans on a level playing field?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supermax was not the best of ideas this morning. Come to think of it, neither was the EC Murph on Tuesday, the one on Wednesday, the oxygen-sucking EC chase of Burns on Thursday, or the three Qs in four days. Eat your heart out IPC!!!! When do we get to have a normal night\u2019s sleep?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m used to seeing modifications during workouts, but just sitting down Indian style in the middle of the beatdown was a new one for me, especially considering it didn\u2019t even come close to resembling anything we were supposed to be doing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Does Head Hunter have a weakness? Did he pick up some off-the-books performance enhancers in Rwanda? Does he get stronger just by looking at a workout?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ziffel is a great man. Or at least I think he is. If you just guess at every third word he says, you\u2019ll get this gist of what he\u2019s saying. What I\u2019ve learned is that watches and counting operate differently in Poland.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let\u2019s settle this, Count Crash. Grok is unhinged. That\u2019s not up for debate. But even Grok told me that this workout was not advisable.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Van Gogh actually suggested a way to make this beatdown MORE difficult. What the F is wrong with him?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At one point, Crash started just saying numbers out loud. We think there was an entire conversation going on inside of head and maybe a little leaked out, but those are unconfirmed reports.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the Q gave the PAX a five minute warning before returning the blocks, most PAX left the beatdown area within two minutes. Not Sandman. He was the last to leave. He stayed past the time to finish his reps. That\u2019s some grit right there.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YHC will admit it. Fifteen Spider Merkins was way way way too many. But what could we do? It was written on the wienke. We had to do it, right?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Burpovers devolved quickly, very quickly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YHC is not sure that he has ever seen such an elite group of PAX so purely decimated mid-workout. The week of EC\u2019s and self-Qs must have caught up with the group. If not for Root Canal\u2019s wise counsel (and I\u2019m slightly paraphrasing), we might have all quit. \u201cEight o\u2019clock will happen with or without me so I might as well participate.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ask Head Hunter about his experience with man holes and pickle pounders. He\u2019d love to tell you about it.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>ANNOUNCEMENTS:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sign up for IPC or else Slowpitch will cry.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CLimb to Remember on 9\/11.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Labor Day convergence.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IPC Week 0 starts tomorrow.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>PRAYERS:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">None spoken.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zima Out.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIME WASTERS. They were so unimportant that I forgot what we did, except for the 5 penalty burpees for Ziffel disrespecting the time of the rest of the PAX. &nbsp; BEATDOWN. Grab two cinder blocks and farmer carry them\u00a0 to the parking lot by the playground. That\u2019s harder than it seems. &nbsp; Every ten minutes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcatraz","category-bootcamp"],"acf":{"q":"Zima","date":"8\/29\/26","pax":"Sandman, Crash (Murph), Root Canal (Murph), Head Hunter (Murph), Van Gogh (Murph), Ziffel, Zima (Murph)"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27320,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27319\/revisions\/27320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}