Equipping Our Coxswain — Sledgehammer Edition

Weather – low-50s with tropical storm force gales (clocked a 57 mph gust during CoT) and sideways rain to start. Almost ideal conditions for the crazies… Pre-Run — since it was a perfect morning for a 5-mile pre-run, YHC, Bing and a nip-laden Ripken headed around the Benderson horn promptly at 0440. In between wind gusts of 40-50 …

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Monday Dec 17th Backblast

Rowdy, self admittedly, whipped this one up as I went. I like to shoot from the hip anyway.  As some started out cold it didn’t take too long for the running to warm up souls. Ripken 1min late payed his Burpee.  ChilliPepper 4mins late payed his 4 Burpees and they were SUPER! After all that …

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Super Easy Beatdown

Conditions 43 and low humidity w no wind! (Just incredible) 12 Men somehow dug in deep and pulled the”FartSack” covers off and rode out into the Chilly Gloom. Bing, Sparky,Ripken and BIGMAC all showed up early for a 2-3mile pre run! Mozi  2 laps including the usual stuff… butt kickers, high knee,kerioke,and Nur X2. Warmup Ssh, …

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Hot Laps in the Chilly Gloom

Weather – 61 and a COLD breeze (I know, it sounds ridiculous knowing our brothers in Naperville, Omaha and Minneapolis have snow, but geez it was chilly). A quick disclaimer was shared and we were off to warm up, literally and physically. Mosey included a few laps around what would be a familiar track for …

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The First Thanksgiving

In 1619 just outside of Jamestown, the Pilgrims communed with the local natives and committed to celebrate this day of thanks on the same day henceforth.  Shamwow faintly remembered that very day! The beatdown today was to celebrate this day of unity by sharing many 16’s and 19’s with the Pax. During the mozy, the …

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