Tag: #IronPAXChallenge

Having earned a first round bye in the 2026 IronPAX challenge, we hit the Timberwolf track on Wednesday. Here is how it went down:

Runners Are People Too

• Format
  • 45-minute AMRAP
  • Counting the total number of complete 400-meter laps
    • If time stops and you’re in the middle of the lap, it does not count. Whole numbers only.

• Equipment
  • Standard Coupon
  • 400 meters measured out
• The Thang
  • Start the timer
  • Run 400 meters
  • After 400 meters, complete
    • 10 Thrusters
    • 10 Bonnie Blairs (right leg-left leg = 1 rep)
    • 10 Jungle Boy Squats
    • 10 Bonnie Blairs (right leg-left leg = 1 rep)
    • 10 Thrusters
  • Continue the pattern until time is called

• Scoring
  • Count the total number of 400-meter laps in 45 minutes

also we had Nancy, Dumar, and Doozy who represented the tin foil pax and did their own beatdown consisting mostly of a light pole alley. Great work today fellas, on to round 2!

announcement:

9/11 Ruck on Friday at 8pm kicking off from The Alamo.

PAX met block in hand on the fields of Timberwolf. Blocks courtesy of Crabby. TCLAPS especially to Snookie for making the long journey to get and IPC workout. Everyone killed it. Here’s how it went down and what it’s all about:

IronPAX Challenge 2026 Week 0 – Keller WOD

We finished these with time remaining so some walking around the track followed by some MARY.

Despite their better judgement, 10 SOJers met at the cool and moist fields of Timberwolf for the final installment of IronPAX 2025, the Bert WOD. After some explanation to those who didn’t know the plan, and as Captain Kirk and Nancy Lopez joined us, we hit the ground running with:

Background: The Bert WOD is dedicated to U.S. Marine Cpl. Albert Gettings, 27, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, who died on Jan. 5, 2006, while conducting counter-sniper operations in Fallujah, Iraq. Cpl. Gettings was serving as a team leader with the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, at the time of his death.

Every quarter, Cpl. Gettings’ fellow Marines in Fox Company complete a special CrossFit workout in his honor as part of the Cpl. Albert P. Gettings Award ceremony.

He is survived by his wife, Stephanie Palimino; parents, David and Juliet; and sister, Cori.”

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Bert WOD

• Format
  • For time workout
• Equipment
  • Standard coupon
  • Timer
  • 100-yard field
  • Cones to mark 5 yards, 10 yards, 15 yards, and 20 yards

The Thang

START THE CLOCK

• 50 burpees
• 5-yard murder bunny, mosey 95 yards and back 95 yards to your block, reverse murder bunny for 5 yards back to start

• 100 merkins
• 10-yard murder bunny, mosey 90 yards and back to your block, reverse murder bunny for 10 yards back to start

• 150 lunges (easy way)
• 15-yard murder bunny, mosey 85 yards and back to your block, reverse murder bunny for 15 yards back to start

• 200 air squats
• 20-yard murder bunny, mosey 80 yards and back to your block, reverse murder bunny for 20 yards

• 150 lunges (easy way)
• 15-yard murder bunny, mosey 85 yards and back to your block, reverse murder bunny for 15 yards back to start

• 100 merkins
• 10-yard murder bunny, mosey 90 yards and back to your block, reverse murder bunny for 10 yards back to start
• 50 burpees

STOP YOUR CLOCK

The title comes from what happens when YHC attempted to do start the second set of burpees and the ole legs rejected that idea. Had to count to one twice.

TCLAPS to everyone who posted at IronPAX this year! These workouts are no joke! Big shoutout to Crabgrass, Tzatziki , and Warby for posting every week of the challenge. Until next time. SYITG!!

Despite knowing this was IPC week 3, eight gloom warriors hit the fields of Timberwolf for this weeks edition. We went straight to the field to get to work. After some discussion on the format, we got started. According the the lunch ladies in their preferred parking spaces, this is more or less what happened:

Chris Kyle WOD

• Format
  • 40-minute AMRAP
  • Total repetition count workout
    • Burpees do not count towards your repetition count
• Equipment
  • Standard coupon
  • 5-minute EMOM timer
  • Measure 25 yards
• The Thang
  • Start both the 40-minute timer and the 5-minute EMOM timer at the same time
  • Complete the following exercises as prescribed
    • 40 Kettlebell swings
    • 40 lateral block jump-overs
    • 40 thrusters
    • 40 decline merkins (feet on top of your coupon that is turned vertically)
  • When EMOM timer goes off
    • Stop the work you are doing:
      • Run out 25 yards
      • Do 5 burpees
      • Run back 25 yards
    • Pick up where you left off when you get back
  • Repeat this pattern for 40 minutes
• Scoring
  • Total repetitions for 40 minutes
  • BURPEES DO NOT COUNT IN REPETITION COUNT

That was a tough one. TCLAPS to all the PAX for showing up and putting in work! Numbers, names , announcements, YHC took us out.
announcements:

• CSAUP tomorrow night 8pm at The Alamo! Ruck event with stops along the way. They’ve been working on this for a while, should be a great event! Reach out to Crabgrass for more info
• Another opportunity is to run a lap or a few with me at the Piedmont 8hr race on Saturday October 18th. It’s 2.7 mile loops from 9am to 5pm. It’d be awesome if anyone wants to come out and run a lap or two with me. Don’t have to sign up, just show up.

9 warriors of the gloom hit the moist fields of Timberwolf for Week 2 of the ironPAX challenge. This week came from F3 Cleveland. According to the lunch ladies circling the parking lot, this is more or less how it went down:

8 Track

• Format
  • For time workout
• Equipment
  • 400 meters measured out (1 lap on a normal track)
  • 33.3 yards (100 feet) measured out in a straight line
    • This is the distance from a football field sideline to the far hash.
  • Standard coupon

The Thang

• Workout consists of 8 rounds with each round starting with a 400-meter run
  • Odd-numbered rounds: Perform stationary exercises
  • Even-numbered rounds: Perform movement exercises
• Start the timer
  • Round 1
    • Run 400 meters
    • Perform 20 Cleveland Rocks
      • PAX standing behind coupon with the coupon starting from ground. PAX performs a clean, OH Press, and then reverse lunges (right leg-left leg = 1)
  • Round 2
    • Run 400 meters
    • 200-foot Coupon Lunge Walk
      • Carry the coupon any way you want and lunge walk out 100 feet and back 100 feet
  • Round 3
    • Run 400 meters
    • 30 Manmakers (Blockees)
  • Round 4
    • Run 400 meters
    • 200-foot Redrum bunnies (Reverse Murder Bunnies)
      • 100 feet out and 100 feet back
  • Round 5
    • Run 400 meters
    • 40 Thrusters
  • Round 6
    • Run 400 meters
    • 200-foot Crawl Bears (Reverse Bear Crawls)
      • 100 feet out and 100 feet back
  • Round 7
    • Run 400 meters
    • 50 Kettlebell Swings
  • Round 8
    • Run 400 meters
    • 200-foot Burpee Broad Jump
      • 100 feet out and 100 feet back
• Stop timer after crossing the finish line after the 100 feet back of Burpee Broad Jumps

Scoring

Time it takes to complete.

All PAX crushed it today! We finished on time and headed back to the invisible shovel flag in the parking lot.

Numbers, names, announcements , prayers, YHC took us out.

• 11 year F3RVA anniversary this Saturday at 630am at Dogpile
• SOJ Ruck CSAUP 8pm next Friday at Alamo. Goes until about midnight. See Crabgrass for details.
• Timberwolf specifically, we have been asked to leave the parking spot closest to the school and the dumpster empty. The school employee who gets there first by herself feels more safe with that spot.
  

NMM

YHC continues to be impressed by PAX who continue to get out here and push themselves by choosing the hard thing and doing IPC week after week! Extra TCLAPS to Cookie eh hit the track after we were done to get in a run ! 🤯