Tag: Heartbreak Ridge

A hearty 9 appeared at Heartbreak on a chilly version of 70 and sunny. Here’s what went down:

Mosey to the back of the school for COP under the lights:

SSH, Don Quixote, Russian Soldiers, Arm Circles, Merkins (15?) and LBCs.

Mosey to the track to select your favorite block and then head to the endzone for 4 sets of 4 exercises at the 25, 50, 25 and endzone

1. Block burpees – (we had an extra set just because) – 20 merkins
2. Block swings (like a kettle bell swing)
3. Incline merkins – 16
4. Derkins – 16

Next, head over to the brick building for some wall seats and balls to the wall. Then mosey to the back of the school for some pole smokers.

Seeing too many cars in the elementary school next door, we stayed on campus for a triple check – vertical crunches (squats), flutter kicks and run to the flag pole.

Next, head over to the pull up bars for AMRAP pull ups with the pax doing 4 merkins between each set (36 merkins).

Finally, take a lap around the track, with a few sprints for good measure, then back to the flag.

Numberama, nameorama and YHC took us out.

Announcements: November merkin challenge is up and running. I think we had around 103 to get you started.

Tomorrow is officially my fourth anniversary (*with several large gaps for injuries). A big thanks to Lockjaw for subtly EH’ing me at our daughters’ soccer games, as well as the rest of the Pax for keeping me coming back. I had not worked out in years and showed up to my first few workouts in cargo shorts and a shirt that I used to cut the grass. (I definitely prefer my child’s medium Wdog shirt). I have made some great friends out in the gloom and look forward to another 4 years!

Ronnie out.

Eight elite emerged from the fog to HBR including some we have not seen in a while. We did:

COP: SSH, Don Qs, Helicopters, Merkins, Flutterkicks. Mosey to Coupon drop zone & grab a block.

Partner up: 1 PAX starts one way on the track with both blocks while other PAX run other way and meets up. Block Carrier does 3 burpees then runs a lap. 4 times through.

Benchwork: 15 Block Bench pullovers & 30 Benchkicks. 5 sets total. Over to Heartbreak Hill- 5 rounds of: 30 block presses at the top, run down and 10 V-Ups. Drop coupons back to drop zone then back to front of track: 3 sets of PLTs – 20 each man. Mosey back to flag & few LBCs to get us to 6:15. YHC took us out.

Announcements: Final days of shoe drive, let’s get over 100 for the month. Bring them to Dogpile or Gridiron Saturday. HDHH at The Answer Wednesday at 5:00. 3rd F tonight at 8:00, see Slack for link.

Prayer request: Please pray for Offshore & his family. His MIL passed away this past weekend.

NMS: Since YHC donated the blocks for the IPC it was time to break them back out. The partner carry & switch instructions were confusing, some would say Upchuck-esque, but got the blood flowing. The block pullovers were a favorite of the PAX, keeping us off the ground. Not a lot of mumblechatter with all the block work.

YHC was first in and then saw Atilla pull in, a very welcome sight as he’s been absent from HBR for a few weeks. No Handshake this morning, guess he’s working on stories to share at First Watch tomorrow.

On a wet day with a beautifully drained multi-purpose field the 8 of us
1st and 10: 10 murkins, 1 burpee at 10 yrs line, sprint 90, jog back to 20, do 9 merkins, 2 burpees, sprint back. 4/5 dentists say rinse and repeat. Starter started with 12 lbs medicine ball

Derkin gym with partner 11s, mud felt like were were bobba fet being sucked into the sarlac pit. Seymore couldn’t figure out how to hold up Handshake’s feet, and rather than getting a handshake had to duck to miss a right hook.

back to field: World War Thor:

2 lines with partner. 2 12 lb medicine ball captain thors and then throw ball to next guy in line, down the line. While waiting for the ball the pax did alternating WW2s and merkins

Ran to small hill. Bernies with dips 11s

Circle of trust, Seymore took us out!

A lucky 13 came out to see who HP was on the Q sheet. Handshake took us off to start as we did:

COP: Don Qs, Dead man hangs, Helicopters, HRMs, incorrectly done Scorpion Kicks. Over to straight-away on side of school: 10 sets of sprints length of the lot. Up to the PES lot for a Triple check of: WWIIS, Donkey Kicks, run the side lot. Q was finally passed at 5:57 to YHC.

Down to back of QMS for 3 sets of 20 PLTs, then down to the Jerkin Gym for 4 sets of 8 Jerkins. Last second pass to Greenbow who took us to Heartbreak hill for a few rounds up: Bear Crawl, Crab Walk, then Bunny hop up. Back to flag. Atilla took us out.

Annoucements: PAX is doing well collecting shoes for this October shoe-drive challenge. After this morning likely over 15 pairs or more. See Slack for more details. Tomorrow is soft launch of running focused boot camp at Pocahontas MS. 3+ miles and boot camp in 45 minutes. Also see Malpractice’s post on Slack about Crossover Ministry.

NMS: Handshake had requested a Hot Potato Q last night with the Q sheet open. Having called for it he took us from the COP on until almost 6:00. The series of 10 sprints at the start were awful. He then called up a Triple check which ate up more time. Finally the Q was passed and YHC wanted to get some Jerkin Gym time in. Apparently Handshake is generous with his bourbon but not a Q.

Greenbow stepped up by taking us straight to the hill and making sure our gloves & hands were properly soaked before the COT. Great to have 13 out this morning as HBR continues to grow. Will the Coupons from the IPC sit dormant for the rest of October? Will a Q break those out again soon?

A month of SOJ IPC in the history books (thank God), DTH returned to a gloomier Heartbreak Ridge packed with veteran pain addicts hungrily awaiting their fix. Good thing YHC brought along the medieval torture playbook…

The THANG:

COP #1:

• Mosey to Soccer Field
• Welcome & F3 Disclaimer
• Imperial Squat Walkers x10 IC
• Opus Merkins x10 IC
• Dying Quixotes x10 IC
• Tplank Arm Circles x10 ea side IC
• Rosalita Whips x10 IC
• LBC’s x10 IC
• Wilson&Fudd

COP #2:

• Mosey to Heartbreak Ridge
• Partner up for a LINDSEY:
• Bottom x30/25/20/15/10 – PLT’s 
• Bernie to Top
• Top x10/15/20/25/30 – Dying Boxing Cockroaches
• Run to Bottom
• Each partner completes each exercise
• Elbow Plank for the SIX

COP #3:

• Mosey to the BBall Courts
• Triple Check:
• P1 – Dirty Hook-Up
• P2 – Legs of Time (Like Kimchi twists, but dropping legs to each hour of the clock)
• P3 – AYG across Bball court & back

COP #4:

• Mosey to the Handicap Rails
• Choose a new partner
• x3 Rounds of the following:
• Jerkins x10 each
• Dips x10 each
• Cliffhanger Merkins x10 each
• Between Rounds, partners complete x10 Lt Dans together

Mosey BTTF for COT:

• Counterama # 12
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Comments)
• YHC took us out in Prayer

NMS:

• While it is profoundly true that SOJ holds YHC’s heartstrings, HBR and the Tuckahoe PAX are truly beloved. These guys know how to work! Loved partnering with Seymour for the Lindsey today – pretty sure my palms are bruised. Loved crushing the Triple with Lighthouse and Splinter. And was totally motivated partnering with Atilla who CRUSHED that last routine on the rails. Also, Greenbow’s speedy effort to complete the last set of Lt Dans before time ran out was just pure entertainment. Today’s title honors the 4th F liberally released by today’s core focus – better in the gloom than in our office space! Love you guys. YHC, DTH

10 PAX came out to Heartbreak Ridge, some knowing what was in store – others forced along for the ride. We did:

No COP

Front of school and instructions given. No Proctor (Conspiracy was unavailable) and we set the timer and were off:

3 Burpees to start then 3 more Burpees Every Minute thereafter on the minute (EMOM). Exercises were:

• 50 Hand Release Release merkins
• 100 Leg Raises (Heels2Heaven)
• 150 Jump Squat / Star Jumps
• 200 WWIIs
• 250 Lunges (single count)

Back to flag then Announcements & COT.

NMS: Well that sucked but PAX pounded it out. YHC was doing OK until we hit the 200 WWIIS which alone took 10+ minutes. Tater flew through and set the pace at just at 30 minutes. Rest of the PAX were clustered around 36-40 minutes. With no clipboarding allowed here in F3RVA (IronPAX actually suggested someone sit out and do this) it was you vs. you on form but as Gomer Pyle said most of the exercises don’t give you much option to cheat too much. Not sure if the 2nd part of the HRMs had a purpose but to annoy but hopefully no more of those. Worst part about all the counting and EMOM is no room for mumblechatter at all.

Hopefully Week 2 gets the pax moving somewhat but the 100+ Burpees along with everything else Week 1 was definitely a challenge.