YHC showed up to The Tomahawk to find a few HIM already defeating the day and waiting to post for a little kettle bell.  When the digital watch hit 0515, we had 6(…the other 2 will come in).

Now your YHC hasn’t posted to a non-running or non-ruck workout in months and was posting for only the second time since the P200.  Preparing for my Q required dusting off the Qskill set and counting on the pax to support the Q.  I wasn’t disappointed…

But first, let me give a shout out for BACK BLASTS.  To prepare, I looked no further than previous Tomahawk back blast to find some material that I liked.  Fortunately Chicken Wing Qed up a goody a few weeks ago. So if my BB has a little CTRL+C, CTRL+V, the work is cited.

Post a brief disclaimer with no FNG’s present…we moseyed without out our bells..

..towards the back of the school to warm up with some butt kickers, high knees, karaoke left and right, and finished up with some left and right shuffle.

6 of us circled up for some COP warm up…quickly to find 2 catching up from the parking lot. I’m not sure how they found us as the AO was not well lit at this hour. I’m glad they do so they could enjoy…

• 25 SSH IC
• 10 Windmills IC
• 15 seal jacks IC
• 15 mountain climbers IC
• 10 merkins IC

With COP done, I thanked Birdcage for keeping the count as the pax where a little voice shy at this point. That quickly changed when we mosied backed to our bells.

The real thing brought the uggs and the ohs out.

Thank you Chicken Wing.  We picked the bells up and mosied down to the starte of the LONG school driveway.  When all were present, the plan was announced.  The 10 poles we passed are our markers.  At each pole we’ll, based on odd or even, we’ll perform the following:

Odd poles – 10 Burpees (w/o KB), 20 KB Swings, 30 KB squats
Even poles – 10 right arm merkins on the bell, 10 left arm merkins on the bell, 10 KB curls each arm, 10 KB shoulder presses each arm
repeato up to pole 10 carrying the KB between the poles.

Now, on paper I thought this was nothing. Little did I know.  We muscled through the first 5 before a 10 count was called out. Thank you birdcage and drop thrill. We then continued to the 9^th pole. Patton assisted me in counting the poles and advised me that were pretty much done. Looking at my watch, I agreed but not without having Patton (Socrates 2.0), agree to call out some merry when we get back to COT. He accepted.

Back by COT Patton led us in:

• V-Ups, in a silly fast cadence count only manageable by a teenager
• Freddy Mercuries IC
• Crunches

NMM

• Pax were awesome today. Greatly appreciate their support as I got back out there and Qed. Couldn’t of done it without you.
• Great to see the 2.0’s out there. These young men are the future and each time we get to pour a little bit of leadership into them I believe it also fills us up as leaders
• Theme of the month – Sacrifice. YHC shared a little of his own take on sacrifice.  Simply put, sacrifice starts early in the morning, leaving the comfort of ones better to step out onto the pavement to get better to only prepare our bodies, hearts and minds to live third. To get uncomfortable so that we’re prepared to comfort and support our M’s, 2.0’s, family, friends, co-workers.
• Socrates and Drop Thrill picked me up on the theme and shared the reminder of the sacrifice that Jesus made for us all. Very fitting as we’re in holy week.
• Getting better….Pindrop shared with me that even though my work was copied (only partly, BTW) from a few weeks ago, he felt better and stronger today. He wasn’t gased on the burpees even though he was leading the way the entire time. He’s getting ready for a few big races and if I can, I’ll EH him into the 4/28 Go Ruck Tough.
• Drop Thrill is saying goodbye to 44 and hello to 45 this week. Happy Birthday.

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16 was the total of HIMs to post at The Tomahawk. What was in store for the brave men unfolded before their eyes throughout the workout. A tag team of Geromino to get the blood flowing and soreness kicked off was followed by YHC with just a few simple exercises that seemed to never end.

We had a pre run arranged by Sauerkraut…I heard today that he is looking to step up as The Fort pre-run Q. He may arrange it, may not, he may post, he may not, but one thing is for certain there will be A LOT of mumblechatter on the topic.

Geronimo takes the helm and leads us in a warm up COP style.

Usual suspects were worked through to get us ready for “The Death Star” not sure if Geronimo named it that, but hence for it so shall be called.

KBs swings in the center and roughly 10 stations around the middle with writing that took me back to a nice bistro. You know all of the fancy chalk trying to sell their wares. Well Geronimo was selling his wares with a KB…very enjoyable. Not exactly!

So the pax broke up, some went clockwise, others not in the same direction which made for a good time. KB pass throughs to the center and overhead KBs to each station.

10 stations or so of varying degrees of difficulty and after a round of the Death Star, it was turned over to YHC.

Pretty simple. Partnered up, catch me if you can with 10 merkins on the catch all the way from the parking lot to Doby’s Bridge. Once at the end, turned around and gathered at the stop sign into the school.

With partners, did 10 KB derkins on each arm while other partner was holding feet on the back in plank. Switchero and repeat.

Mosied to white sign….light to light would have been fun.

KB merkin crawls. What is that you ask? A whole lotta goodness and it a time killer. About 15 yards or merkins on one arm, then cross the bell while crawling to the opposite arm and do a merkin. On and on until you wearily crawled to the light post. I saw a lot of throwing of the bell, or a huge push…210, 220, whatever it takes.

Finish with a catch me if you can to the COT. 2 minutes of mary.

COT.

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Thanks for the Q men and always great to share the Q. Let me know if you want on the schedule and we will add you on.

We have What Did on Q this upcoming Monday for his KB VQ. Doctors have cleared him and we will support his return to action.