The normal crowd of two showed up today for our normal Wednesday ruck in the neighborhood. Today’s conversation started with Matlock’s unruly dishwasher, followed by appliance woes in general, how working for Amazon is a get rich quick scheme but how it’s also just a terrible company to work for.
Did our normal ruck, about 3 miles in 50 minutes.
Did you know that an Apache Helicopter’s chin mounted autocannon is slaved to the gunner’s helmet. So wherever the gunner looks, the gun points.
The PAX came out to The Old Hundred for a beatdown and, unbeknownst to them, a lesson in helicopters. Speaking of which, did you know a helicopter can land safely even with a complete engine failure. It is called autorotation.
After a quick mosey around the parking lot, we started with Side Straddle Hops, helicopters (of course), Dead Man Hang into cherry pickers, and then got to know a couple of wives before getting to it.
First up was some Tabata cycles. Tabata is a 4 minute workout alternating between 20 seconds of exercise and 10 seconds of rest. And while we are learning things, did you know that the blades of a helicopter’s rotor actually change their pitch within a single rotation. This allows helicopters to maintain control in all three axes: Pitch, Roll, and Yaw. Anyway we did 4 Tabata cycles: Shoulder presses, Goblet Squats, Skull Crushers, and WW3s.
Next we moved to the bus loop. YHC had originally planned to do this next part using the 5 corners of the building (as viewed from satellite imagery) but figured it would be too confusing for the knuckledraggers in this PAX so we used the bus loop instead. Start at one end of the bus loop, do 5 reps of an exercise, run to the other end of the bus loop with your bell, and do 5 reps of another exercise, then back and do another and so on. We did 5 exercises: burpees, piledrivers (a goblet squat, shoulderpress at the bottom of the squat, stand up, shoulderpress at the top. That is 1 rep), KB Swings, Deadlifts, Curls. We ran that one back and slow-seyed back to the parking lot.
5 minutes remaining, Circle of fire which conveniently ended right before Warby. Announcements: Iron Pax on Thursday is a 50 minute workout so it will go from 5:30-6:20, stretch beforehand. When you arrive, grab a coupon from the trunk and head to the track. Mini CSAUP later this month, see Crabby for deets. Bring lightly used clothes for our homies in Kenya to Nancy or another one of the New Market chaps and they will dump it on his lawn for his M to clean up. COT and we are out of here. Hope everyone had fun. Oh and by the way, did you know that the tail rotor on a helicopter is there to provide counter torque to counter act the torque of the main rotor. The reason that helicopters with two main rotors (like the Chinook cargo/transport helicopter) don’t need a tail rotor is that their rotors are counter rotating (they spin in opposite directions) so they cancel out each others torque.
the PAX arrived at Timberwolf bright and early for a day of fun and punishment. The game today was Ultimate Golf, aka All Sports Driving Range With Consequences, aka A REAL Numbers Game. Due to the frankly absurdly complicated rules, YHC will spare you from a description of the horribly convoluted and half baked game. The important details are as follows:
we started the day out with SSH, Don Quijotes (dialed in the cadence as we went), dead man hang, and the merkin. After that YHC couldn’t think of anything else to do so we moved right along.
After taking 23 minutes to explain the game and get teams, we got to it. Not much interesting to report until around round 3 when YHC realized that the burpee count was getting too high and we backed that off a bit. Then Fan-Gecko managed to snag two racquetballs IN A ROW (may not sound hard but those things are tough to catch when they are covered with dew) and team 1 ended up with a lot of consequences. Following round team 1 gave it back, catching 3 balls and letting 2 go out of bounds. Later on Team 2 didn’t seem to understand how out of bounds worked (understandable… the game was impossible to understand) so everyone’s favorite mvp, Rudy helped team 1 by stopping their ball before it rolled out and earning his team 4 extra merkins.
Original plan was to give Boys of summer points to most catches and most points. It was quickly clear that keeping track of those stats was entirely impractical and points ended up going to the Flyboy choice award for best catch(es) which went to Fan-Gecko and best drive which went to The Duke with Bru coming in an unofficial runner up spot.
thanks to those who came out to my VQ and humored me with this unique and admittedly overengineered game.
Announcements for July 4 convergence, and rucking event in September. Prayers for Mr. Brady and his family and Fandango and his son who is having surgery this coming week. Also shout out to the green mile boys who kept it alive long enough for us to get to the new AO and see so many FNGs yesterday!
Flyboy, signing off.