Conditions: Clear and 51 degrees. 63% humidity. Wind 2 m/h from SW.
Pax: Choot ‘em (F3 Katy), Frac, Rudy, Logo, Klinger, Cheese, High Rise, Charmin, Mahatma, and YHC
F3 Katy has been the darling of F3 Nation lately. They were the subject of a front page article in the New York Times, they launched F3 Aggieland by getting 100+ men to post at the first workout, and they recently had a ridiculous turn out to their convergence, three hundred and forty some odd guys. They’ve been getting a lot of love lately, so it only seemed appropriate that we dish them a little H8!
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 (burpee 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 in 40 minutes.
NMM
• Choot ‘em, down range from F3 Katy, became the first visitor to attempt the H8!, much less complete it. T-claps to Choot ‘em for an impressive first showing.
• Completion percentage was 30% today – YHC, Choot ‘em, and Mahatma all got 8 laps in the 40 minute time limit. Rudy and High Rise came in around 42 minutes. We were close to making 50% on a full compliance H8! That’s good.
• As I said, today was a full compliance H8! Everyone I saw was meeting the standard – running the sidewalks, no corner cutting, bear crawling the entire neutral ground, etc. Really good showing by the entire pax.
• I had to buy everyone coffee at PJs for posting….I was successfully slow enough getting there to avoid paying for Charmin’s. I had set the over/under at 6 pax and took the under. Let’s face it, the H8! Is hard. I wouldn’t say it was cold this morning, but for New Orleanians, getting out of bed was a little less comfortable today. Okwata can be windy. There were plenty of reasons not to go today. YHC, of little faith, didn’t think there would be more than 6 guys choosing to do the hard thing this morning. I was wrong. The guys that showed up this morning are all what we call High-Impact Men, from newbies like Klinger and Choot ‘em to vets like Rudy and Frac, these are all men I am proud to know. They encourage me, inspire me, and keep me fired up about life. #LoveTheH8rs
