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Inaugural The Fort 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb

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Nation Ford High School football field stadium
06:00 launch

THE THANG:
Inaugural The Fort 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb
9/11 is a day nobody will ever forget. Nobody should ever forget. Many lives were lost and America as we knew it was forever changed after that day. This will be in honor of the 24th anniversary of that fateful day.

Setup:
Each of the NYC Twin Towers had 110 stories and 2,070 steps. Looking at the football stadium bleachers at Nation Ford High School (aka Honey Badger, Ring of Fire, and Varsity), there are 6 rows (the larger two-way rows) of steps, each row with approx 34 steps. Going up then down each of the 6 rows gets you 204 steps. Repeat that 10 times +1 more row, you have 2074 steps. We would run all 6 rows 10 times or rounds, then add one row to make it 61 rows total. Granted we’d be going up 61 times, down 61 times, but we’d get the total step count in. To keep it easy, we would do 11 complete rounds of steps, or 66 rows total.

Some guys ran it, some guys walked it, some guys rucked it. A handful tried to replicate the 60-70lbs average load firemen carry when prepped and going in for a fight. Coupons were added to the mix as well. Work was done, great fellowship was had, and patches were well earned. A prayer or convocation was presented at the start to honor all those lost on that fateful day. Excellent job everyone!! Remember, we GET TO do things like this. #NeverForget

Thankful and blessed to lead this. It WILL be back next year!
SYITG,
NASA

AAR:
This was the first time doing this, and to be honest I did not perform a pre-run on this to see what those bleachers would give us as far as elevation. In the end, per Garmin, I did right at 902 ft elevation gain in 2.36 miles in about 1hr 15 min in 12.5 rounds of bleachers (some of that 2.36 miles was lateral, horizontal movement from stairs to stairs). I actually finished the 11 rounds in 1 hr, but went to help and motivate others. BUT – to achieve the 110 story height of the twin towers’ stair wells, you need 1,100 ft elevation gain. I was 200 ft short. With that, doing the math, one round of bleacher steps is 75 ft elevation gain. So in order to get 1,100 ft elevation gain, we would have to do 14.6 rounds of bleacher steps, so make it 15 to keep it easy. That is doable.

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Adding the Lightpoles

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WARMUP:
SSH
IW
HW
mountain climbers
Yoga
Peter Parker
Yoga
Parker, Peter
Yoga

THE THANG:
Long mosey

Muscle up on the wall near the kindergarten classrooms
One, two, three, up to 10

Start with light pole at the bottom of the hill. That light pole is light pole zero. The next light pole is 1, the next one 2, etc. up to 10
For the way up the exercise was Burpees. Then we came down the hill with squats. Then back up the hill with plank jacks, and down the hill with Merkins.

Found the picnic tables at the middle school for some Bulgarian split squats back to COT for MARY

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read the newsletter
COT: Was held

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“9/11 Tribute WOD” – Modified version of a workout done on a previous anniversary at the Pentagon in the courtyard

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WARMUP:
– 9 Side Straddle Hops
– 11 Windmills
– Plank to Down Dog, Calf stretch’s to Up Dog

THE THANG:
– 2,001 meter (1.243 miles) run to symbolize the year;

– 175 squat thrusters, representing United Airlines flight 175, which crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center;

– 110 deadlifts and 110 lunges to symbolize the 110 floors in each of the World Trade Center towers;

– 93 box (bench) jumps to symbolize United Airlines flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania;

– 77 kettle bell swings to symbolize American Airlines flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon;

– 125 burpees to symbolize the 125 personnel killed in the Pentagon.

Sets were completed with a partner to symbolize how this Country came together after the horrific events of 9/11/2001.

MARY:
– 9 Heel touches,
– 11 Heels to heaven
– A few moments of silence

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter!

COT: It is what it is…

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Steel City— by the numbers

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Steel City Beatdown – By the numbers

5 burpees OYO – 5 Pirates World Series Championships
13 SSH IC – 26 total reps for Steeler HOF Rod Woodson
5 burpees OYO – 5 Penguins Stanley Cups
6 Windmills – 6 Steelers Super Bowl Championships

1 Burpee OYO – 1 Olympic Gold Medal for Kurt Angle (he did it with a broken neck)

Mosey to the hill by the fire station

Inclined PAIN workout. You would do 3 burpees at the bottom of the hill and then do an exercise, go back to the bottom of the hill 3 more burpees, and then move up the ladder completing all exercises. Everyone loved this. All the reps represented the numbers of different Pittsburgh sports legends.

Steel City by the numbers Cont.

87 Mountain Climbers – Sidney Crosby
75 LBC’s – Mean Joe Greene
66 Flutters – Mario Lemieux
43 – Calf Raises – Troy Polamalu
32 – SSH – Franco Harris
24 – Freddy Mercury’s – Barry Bonds
21 Merkins – Roberto Clemente
10 Squats – Ron Francis
8 BBS – Willie Stargell
7 HR Merkins- Ben Roethlisberger

Mosey back to COT. If you got through it…446 reps…the exact number of Bridges within the Steel City.

Thanks to all who posted and embraced the legacy of PGH Sports.

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No one asks me to carry heavy things.

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WARMUP: A variety of warmupy things. Maximus could have done windmills the whole time.
THE THANG:
Everyone carried a ruck or weight vest, sand bag and KB. Did. Big loop of the car line and then stopped in the parking lot
Worked island to island in the parking lot
KB 20 curls / lunge walk with torso twist
Repeat
Sandbag 20 squats / Sumo walk
Repeat
KB 20 OH press / waiter carry
Repeat
Sandbag 20 upright rows / sand bag toss
Repeat
KB 20 tricep ext / goblet carry
Repeat
Sandbag 20 Deadlift / rifle carry on chest
Repeat
KB 20 American Hammers / Farmer carry
Repeat
Sandbag 20 Clean / Shoulder carry
Repeat
Back to COT the short way
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Up yours!

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WARMUP:

Yes. Usual suspects and some dynamic stretching followed by some plank work (side note: Fishstix is a badass and did a pre-workout with sandbags)

THE THANG:

Starfish Routine or as Change Order called it, “Spread Eagle”

Center complete three man makers with sandbag every time you were back in center, 17 times total

complete x amount of reps at each of the 4 corners

Increase reps each round, 20, 25, 30 and 35

Exercises

CDD
Hand Release Merkins
LBCs
Monkey Humpers

MOD changed per round

Lunge walk
Bear crawl
Crawl bear
Walk :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: (After 501 reps we were a bit fatigued)

From there we moseyed to the pull-up bars because BAOPS.

Took turns calling out ab exercises while one PAX did pull-ups to failure
:two: rounds of this was sufficient

Mosey back for Mary

MARY: 3 minute more of her
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Golf tournament
Invergence
Convergence
Fundraising for clean water for Kenya will be starting up!

COT: lifted up DDs M, Badlands, and praises for Pax supporting one another!

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Snatch and Run

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WARMUP:
The 2.5 mile pre run

THE THANG:
A weird version of 21’s
Cones were set up at 50m intervals up to 500m
Suicide run to each cone performing cleans every time you go back to start.
E.g.
Perform 10 cleans and then run to the 50m cone and back (100m)
9 cleans, then run to the 100m cone and back (200m)
8 cleans, 150m cone (300m)

The amount of cleans plus distance ran = 11

MARY: huh ?
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel, 9/11 CSAUP, Golf Tournament

COT:

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OGs at Alcatraz

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It was a perfect weather morning
WARMUP: Mosey, windmills, IW, merkins, plank stretches
THE THANG:
Smuggler Q
Modified Dora on the Hill.
Big boy sit ups /run 1 lap
Flutters/ run 2 laps
LBCs/ run 3 laps

Step ups/dip/derkin series

Wall sit with bear crawls

Hand off to Jekyll Q
Ring of Fire. 8 cones 20 paces away from center. Do exercise at cone, bear crawl or lunge walk to center for 5 burpees. Run out to next cone. Merkins, LBC, plank punch, squats, bombjacks, mountain climbers and two I can’t remember.

Everyone got Two rounds. Leaders got 3+.
MARY: included during workout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT:

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No Rep Count

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Simple 4 Corner workout, 3 exercises at each cone, rep count started at 5. Original plan was to add 5 reps each lap, but a read a quote from Ali. “I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.”

1st cone
– Squats
– Lunges
– Calf raises
– Farmer Carry/Bear Crawl to next cone
2nd cone
– Bent over row
– Upright row
– Curl
– Overhead carry to next cone
3rd cone
– Flutter with press
– American Hammer
– Simba
– Sandbag toss with Man Maker
4th cone
– Dead Lift
– Clean
– Clean w/press
– Rifle Carry

We made it through about 3 rounds.

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Heavy

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I borrowed this workout from Maximus with a few modifications. Most exercises were performed with ruck on.
Ruck– Parking lot loop
2min Ruck Plank
20 Squats
20 Lunges (10 ea leg)
20 Dead lifts
20 Calf Raises
Ruck with Sandbag, bag toss at pillars
10 Bent-Over rows and 10 Upright rows
3-Merkin series: 10 Wide Arm, 10 Regular, 10 Diamonds – Slick
20 Overhead Press
20 Curls
20 Bent-Over rows
Ruck – Big loop
10 Bent-Over rows and 10 Upright rows
20 V-Ups
20 Flutters w/ press
20 Side Bends
20 Simbas
Farmer Carry – Parking lot loop
10 Bent-Over rows and 10 Upright rows
3-Merkin series: 10 Wide Arm, 10 Regular, 10 Diamonds – Slick
10 Overhead Toss
10 Man-Makers
Ruck – Parking lot loop

Back to COT for some Mary.

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