14 STL Runners and 2 VA Ruckers for minimum plus miles and merkins

WARMUP: SSH x30, Windmills x10, M. Nightclubs x10, Plank, Parker Peters x10, Plank, Peter Parkers x10, broga poses to stretch legs. Mosey around the Long Loop.
THE THANG: Short Loop in the Earth Fare parking lot, each corner complete exercise. 1st corner = 10 Merkins. 2nd corner = 10 Mountain Climbers. 3rd corner = 10 CDDs, 4th = 10 Flying Squirrels. Next complete a hot lap on the long loop, up to 160 take the sidewalk to the east entrance of Earth Fare, proceed at a fast pace around the back of Earth Fare. I believe the short lap + long lap was about a half a mile.
MARY: 10 American Hammers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Litter pickup on Hwy 21 this Saturday. 2.0 friendly. Gloves, bags and litter picker sticks will be provided. Please read your newsletter for the details.
COT: Praise for those participating in SoberOctober and Battlebot for leading. Prayers for our Wives. Thank you Badlands for your leadership at this awesome AO and for leting me lead today. Video evidence may follow.

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What’s your 5k pace?

WARMUP: Mosey to the School
THE THANG: alternate loops. Short loop at 5k pace, long loop at normal pace. After each loop 10 Merkins, 15 Dips, 10 Step Ups, 20 LBCs
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your Newsletter
COT: Prayers were spoken and unspoken.

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178 Year Anniversary of The Naval Academy

It was a cool crisp morning in the Fort but fear not, the mumble chatter kept us warm.

Quick warm up and we mosey 10 feet over to the field behind the AO.

Gave a quick history of the founding of the US Naval Academy by historian, educator, and secretary of The Navy George Bancroft. It was founded on 10/10/1845 in Annapolis Maryland to improve unsatisfactory methods of instructing midshipmen.

Thang:
10 Burpees (October)/10 Flutter (10th Day)/18 Squats & 45 Monkey Humpers (year of pain). Mode of transportation was a Yog (Soft J).

We did:

– 80 Burpees
– 60 Flutters
– 72 Squats
– 90 Monkey Humpers

Moseyed across the street to the hill of pain for some 7’s with a bear crawl as the mode of transportation.

– 6 Kraken Burpees
– 1 V-Up

Back to COT for announcements, prayers, and praises.

-JWOW

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ALCATRAZ 10 YR ANNIVERSARY PARTY

PRE-WORKOUT: Pullups with Trucker

WARMUP: Run back and forth two times in the Runde parking lot

THE THANG:

After a brief introduction including some history of Alcatraz, Funhouse kicked off COP with 50 SSH, (although I believe 100 were planned in homage to Santini). From there it was imperial walker x 10, hillbilly walker x 10. Before we got to the meat of the workout, YHC called out a classic Alcatraz upper body workout called Green Sally (Decibel/2014). It’s a song by Moby called ‘Flower’ where you plank when he sings ‘Green Sally Up’ and drop to 6″ when he sings ‘Green Sally Down’. It’s pretty tough to complete the whole song and I don’t think anyone did today. But, you have to have monster shoulder strength. Because we had a large group today, we split them in half and started our Q’s:

Funhouse on Q:
The Wheel of Pain (Funhouse/2013)
Each PAX gets a cone with an excercise and reps.
40 yard diameter circle with a cone in the middle.
Do the excercise on the cone, run to the middle and out to the cone to the right.

Freddy Mercury – 25
Lunges – 30
Burpees – 15
Merkins – 15
Rosalita- 30
Squats – 25
LBC – 25
Burpees – 10
SSH – 30
Parker Peter – 25
Plank Punches – 30
Mountain Climbers – 30
Merkins – 15

Senator Tressel on Q
Mosey to the bottom of the hill on Tara Tea Drive for ‘Quadzilla’ (Zima/2018)
Group 1 does squats while Group 2 runs backwards up the hill and does 5 bombjacks at the hilltop. Run back down and flapjack. Rinse and repeat 2 more times.

Mosey to the playground for pullups, step ups, and ab exercises (Senator Tressel/2013) We did 2 rounds today

Mosey to the wall by the concessions stand and split into two groups.
Group 1 does Peoples chair and passes a kettle bell (White Lightning/2018), while Group 2, runs to the fence, hops over it, sprints up the hill, does 3 burpees at the top, and runs back to the wall. Flapjack. (Jekyll/2017) We did 2 rounds today.

Form a line for tunnel of love (stolen from Santini at WEP/2012)

MARY: Hello Dolly x 20, Seal walk (Cornhole/2013), Navy Seal Team Sit Ups (Santini/Trucker 2013)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter

COT: Today we celebrated 10 years at Runde Park by paying homage to some of the classic beatdowns led by the great Q’s of Alcatraz. Funhouse and I drew an Alcatraz record 32 Pax and that made me very proud (of course, we advertised heavily, offered free coffee, beer, cake, and closed the other two Saturday AO’s so maybe that had something to do with it – LOL). Although, attendance at bootcamps on Saturdays isn’t what is used to be, I will post whenever I am able. Runde Park has been my home on Saturday mornings, and even after all these years, I still look forward to getting up early, meeting the Pax at 6:30, and doing that tough bootcamp workout. Many thanks to all that posted with us this morning and special thanks to our current and former site Q’s: Funhouse, Smuggler, Trucker, Skipper, and Uber for their leadership and help pulling this all together. I appreciate all you guys!

Prayers: ST’S mom with cancer, DD’s friends with a new pregnancy, Long Duck recovering from burns and back injury

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Let’s try to keep up non IronPax

YHC started with a mosey, that was long. PAX were wondering if they ended up in a running AO.

We stopped by the Pre-K, school for Warm-O-Rama. The usual that included,
Side Straddle Hop
Produce Pickers
Hillbilly Walkers
Windmills
Moroccan Nightclubs
Imperial Walkers

Then for the main course below routine to the opposite end of parking lot with a sprint back,
Lunge Walk
Toy Soldiers
Butt Kickers
High Knees
Bear Crawl

Next was some 11’s,
Burpees with Lunges
Merkins with Squats

Mountain Climbers (1 set of 13)

Run back to CoT for some Pax choice Marys,
Box cutter
Hello Dollys
Flutter Kicks
Freddie Mercury

Ended the workout with,
Announcements
Prayers and Praises

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MP – Sep 7 – Your mom would’ve been proud

WARMUP: This is MP. That’s not really a thing.
THE THANG: Running with pushups
MARY: No chicks
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: The 5th Core Principle

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Worked to silence

WARMUP:
– yes and various with some mosey
THE THANG:
– jack webb: 1-4 push-up and LBC
– hill repeat dora: 100x big boy / 200x squat / 300x American hammer
MARY:
– airborne hip flex
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– read newsletter
– bier-ruck on 9/28: 6@6for6
COT:
– was held

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IronPax ’23 Week 0

IT’S IRON PAX SEASON!!!! Week 0 was a great reminder of what’s expected and how hard you will be pushed this month.

Week 0 was in honor of Gary R Wieneke, SP4, who served in the United States Army as an X-ray Spec with the 128th Evac Hospital in Germany from September 1955 to 1958. Mr Wieneke is the father of one of F3Greenwood’s own, Michael Wieneke, F3Brut. Mr. Wieneke passed away at the age of 83 and Brut created this workout in honor of him.
Aside from serving his country, Mr. Wieneke was a renowned track and field coach in the US. He coached the US Junior National Team. He was the head coach at the University of Illinois from 1967 until his retirement after the 2002-2003 season. Wieneke was a nine0time NCAA District IV Coach of the year, was named the NCAA National Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year in 1987 and garnered three Big Ten Outdoor Coach of the Year. He has been inducted into numerous different Halls of Fame, among them are the US Track and Field and Cross Country and University of Illinois Athletic Halls of Fame.
Behind the numbers
800 meters was his best event. He coached 11 different student-athletes to 27 Big Ten titles in this event
13 reps for the warm-up exercises represents the number of Big Ten Conference Championships his teams won
5 warm-up exercises represent 1 for each Olympic athlete that he coached
7 different exercises and the 8 burpees after each exercise represent the date he passed away – 7/8/2021
Format
Complete the workout for time
Need a 400-meter track or path marked out
Coupon is needed for this workout
Start the timer when the warm-up starts.
The Thang
Warm-up (performed in cadence)
13 reps of each exercise (all 4 count)
SSH
Imperial Walkers
Shoulder Taps
Mountain Climbers
Plank Jacks
800-meter run
85 reps of each of the following exercise. Perform 8 burpees after completing 85 reps of each exercise, including the KB Swings.
Hand Release Merkins
Big Boy Sit-ups
Goblet Squats
Dips
Overhead Press
4 count flutter kicks
KB Swings
800-meter run

The encouragement that happened throughout the workout was top notch. While this was terrible, we all finished. Seeing the list of things that has to get done, is daunting, we all made it to the other side. Don’t let the daunting task stop you in your tracks. You can preserver and overcome.

Great job gents!

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Perseverance requires unwavering determination, resilience in the face of challenges, and a refusal to succumb to setbacks.

Pulled up discussed what are we struggling with and what holding us back.

WARMUP:
Imperial walkers
Windmills
Standing toy soldiers
The church clap

THE THANG
Mosey over to the pull up bars and grab Cinderblocks

The task: complete the exercise then complete run to the bottom of the hill preform 10 plank tucks for the first 2 exercises the the next two sets Peter Parker’s, shoulder taps. Last but not least 50 monkey humpers after the pull ups

10 Cindy Blocker’s
20 Each Leg Fire Hydrants
25 Burpees
30 Cinderblock Curls – return the Cinderblocks
40 Pull ups

Next mosey to the parking lot on the way we discussed what is it is that is holding us back.
Push ups at every end cap median.
Start at 5 and increase by 5 for every Median. We made it to 30 the fatigue was real and so was getting attacked by fire ant.

Announcements, prayers and praises.

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