55F feels like 50F
65%RH
Wind gusting at 15mph coming out of New Orleans East (felt like 30mph on the water)
@Pinewood is bringing back the H8! 10/24 so YHC felt like we should get a little practice in before the main event.
After two PAX relocated from the wrong parking lot, we got our total count all the way up to 4. Once again, pre-blasting may have reduced the count for a few. Or maybe it was the wintery weather. 2 of 4 PAX had to choose between stride repeats at Pontiff as part of OMR training and this beatdown.
At 5:30 and 5 seconds, @Pinewood was itching to mosey. I don’t think it was so much that he wanted to start running figure eights as it was that he was cold even though he had on a nice thick sweatshirt and some wintery looking snow gloves. The first cold is always colder.
Mosey to the foot of canal. Normal warm-up stuff.
WINDYmills, concrete grabbers, mountain climbers, crab cakes, tie fightersx2
Time for the fun. @Pinewood and @Squints have practiced the H8! before, but it was @Architecht’s first time. After giving him the rundown, he asked one quick question followed by “Ok. I got it. You don’t need to keep explaining. Mr. Rogers isn’t here.”
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 with the wind gusting in your face. At the starting point you do a descending burp and merk pyramid starting at 6 (burpee with 6 merkins, burpee with 5 merkins, …..burpee with 1 merkin)
At the end of the 2nd lap the burp and merk pyramid starts at 5, etc.
The goal is to complete 6 laps in 30 minutes because this is ONLY PRACTICE. Each loop is approximately 0.4 miles. Therefore, to conquer the Practice H8! you will have to do the following in 30 minutes:
• Run almost 2.5 Miles of Hills
• 415 Yards of Bear Crawls
• 21 Burpees
• 56 Merkins
A couple of PAX finished in under 30 minutes. One PAX couldn’t help himself (or didn’t pay attention) and started the burp and merk pyramid at 8 instead of 6. I don’t want to name names, but it wasn’t YHC, @Architect or @Squints. He is 20 years old. He is a student at UNO. He led Q-Source this morning. But, I don’t want to name the PAX that didn’t follow directions. That is rude.
After practice, we took a mosey along the lake. Enjoyed the waves crashing in. Found a dry spot for 6 minutes of Mary and called it at 6:15.
Count. Name.
Announcements (10/19 Re-enactment, 10/24 H8!, 10/26 Convergence).
Intentions.
Everyone was a winner for coming out and braving the chilly windy morning.
You verses You. Just show up and push yourself.
SYITG
