Okwata continues to thrive. We showed up 10 strong on a more humid than hoped for October morning for an Okwata inspired fitness test. The warm-up today consisted of a mosey to the foot of Canal.
The Thang
Each lap consists of running south to the top of the levee, crossing canal (bear crawling the neutral ground), running south to the bottom of the levee, cross canal and run north to the top of the levee, cross canal (bear crawling the neutral ground), running north down the levee and back across canal to the starting point. At the starting point you do a descending burp and merk pyramid starting at 8 (bupee with 8 merkins, burpee with 7 merkins, …..burpee with 1 merkin)
At the end of the 2nd lap the burp and merk pyramid starts at 7, etc.
The goal is to complete 8 laps in 40 minutes. According to MapMyRun, each loop is approximately 0.4 miles. Therefore, to conquer the H8! you will have to do the following in 40 minutes:
- Run over 3 Miles of Hills
- 550 Yards of Bear Crawls
- 36 Burpees
- 120 Merkins
We did AMRAP and then moseyed back to the flag.
Moleskin
- No one conquered it today. Bubba was about 20 seconds from victory. He apparently almost splashed on the backside of lap 8, which would have been an epic way to kick off the inagural H8!.
- Post your number of laps in the comments if you want a record of your accomplishment. Half laps count.
- Better luck to us all next time.
7.5
Six (and they all sucked big time).
I think I was around 6 laps also (maybe 6.5 or 5.5???) and look forward to striving for 7 or 8 next time
I ran 5.5 laps with Tool. We finished with 2 Mekins in our Burpee. Would love to get 6 complete laps for next test.
I ran 4.75 laps. I am coming back from a long layoff. I look forward to see what I can do in a few months.