The H8! Can Be Conquered

Event:  2nd Running of the H8!

Conditions: Clear and 42

Field: 13 F3 Nola Pax ages 14-49

The idea behind the H8! was to create something challenging that we can use to measure our progress.  The inaugural running was in October and results can be seen here.  Five men from that first running came out to measure their progress on this brisk morning.  Eight others came to test themselves for the first time.  No one conquered it that first time, but today was a different story.  T-claps to all the participants today.  It is obvious that F3 Nola has improved in the last 5 months.  Let’s keep pushing each other – accelerate.

Post your results in the comments below to have a record of your progress.

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

• I felt like we had a good chance to conquer it today, but our improvement over the last 5 months is more than I thought.  The Tough Mudder is in trouble.
• Welcome to Triple Shift’s 2.0 Yo-Yo making his initial post at the H8!  That’s a nice initiation.  Later in the day he called us out for a lack of creativity in his F3 name.  If he continues to post, I promise we will try to do better.
• T-claps to Yankee for his first appearance at Okwata.  Our lack of creativity in naming our FNG was certainly not due to him.  Who knows how many laps he could have finished if he hadn’t been thinking of all of the possible types of Shifts we might use for his name.
• T-claps to Kimchi for having not missed a workout yet this year.  Beyond impressive.

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