Conditions: 73 degrees with 81% humidity
Brief disclaimer given.
With 6 other Pax joining me, including 1 DR, the 7 of us circled the fountain with a warmup in front of it.
Double shots with Jack Webb at the Barre. Up to 10 and 20.
Disperse Indian Run on levee towards pumping station.
6 rounds of 5 burpees one side and 4 jump squats the other side up and over the levee.
Route 54 on the lakefront.
Thanks for celebrating 54 with me!!
SYITG
On Tuesday night, I was concerned by the lack of HC’s that I would be the only one showing up at the Goldmine this morning. When I arrived about 10 min early, I was surprised to see Madoff, who was a no show for his VQ on Monday, already waiting at the flag. Did I just see him do a few burpees as a self-imposed penalty for his Monday mishap??!! As I exited my car, I heard someone call out “Space Cowboy!”; and, as I turned around, I could see War Eagle emerging from the shadows. With 3 PAX ready to go, it was game on.
I asked Madoff to lead warm-ups:
Slow squats x 10
Grass Grabbers x 10
Slow Vagodas x 10
Forward Arm Circles x 15
Backwards Arm Circles x 15
SSH x 20
We then moseyed to my truck to pick-up 3 jump ropes and then continued to the front entrance of the NOLA Gold Shrine on Airline. With jump ropes ready, I walked through the “Tori Boggs” beatdown, a tribute to the repeat world champion jump rope champion, Tori Boggs.
The Thang
2 min (1:40 min on, :20 sec rest) Forward Jump Rope
Double rope crunch x 20 (2-1)
2 min (1:40 min on, :20 sec rest) Backwards Jump Rope
Overhead extended jump rope squats x 40
2 min (1:40 min on, :20 sec rest) 1 leg (right) Jump Rope
BBSU with jump rope extended above head x 30
2 min (1:40 min on, :20 sec rest) 1 leg (left) Jump Rope
Stretch back with extended jump rope V-Ups x 30
2 min (1:40 min on, :20 sec rest) Backwards Jump Rope
Monkey Dance x 40
2 min (1:40 min on, :20 sec rest) Forwards Jump Rope
Jump Rope Burpees x 10
Mosey back to the flag. COT. I was thrilled to have War Eagle join us again and Madoff back in the saddle again ready for his VQ.
The Site Q at El Diablo has set the precedence to have a hero WOD to honor those who have paid the ultimate price. After a brief disclaimer and a warmup, YHC complied with the following:
6 rounds for time
24 air squats
24 push-ups
24 walking lunges
400m run
With about 10 minutes remaining, move to the parking lot for burpee broad jumps and some Mary.
COT
NMM
The Laredo
While serving in Afghanistan, Army Staff Sgt. Edwardo Loredo died on June 24, 2010, when insurgents attacked with an IED. Loredo previously served in Iraq. Hence the 6/24.
The pax crushed it with time left over. They had the choice of bear crawl between burpees or burpee broad jumps. Roughly about 15 or so completed.
Unbeknownst to YHC, this WOD was completed a few weeks ago. We honored this fallen warrior twice.
SYITG
YHC put the call out Friday in mumblechatter and Sunday in announcements as hype-man that Madoff would pop his Q cherry; never did I expect 5:30 to strike and also have to be the Q! A VQ without a V is just another Bolt BD, mosey to the car for JBL to serenade the pax as required by the Geneva Convention. Warmorama of more stretchy stuff than normal plus the usual: Abe SLOWgodas, Abe Vigodas, Tie Fighters, Seal claps, OH claps, PP/PP. Finish with 25 Australian pull ups IC as the mosquitos attacked so off to JPAX for the Thang:
26 RLSU
25 incline merkins
26 LLSU
25 decline merkins
Retrieve the coupons for EMOM (1 minute work, 10 secs rest quickly changed to 40 secs rest after two exercises):
OH press
Squats
Big boys
Curls
Lunges
American Hammers
Tricep press
Calf raises
Manmakers
Finish with Mary:
One legged wife pleasers (non-grounded leg extended) x 15, flapjack
LBC x 30
Penguins x 30
Protractors 1 minute
Return coupons and mosey to flag with time for 5 burpees OYO
COT
Let’s get right to it.
Warmarama
SSH
Windmills
Arm circles
Self love
Mountain climbers
William Mays Hayes Jr, Esquire (slow Willie Mays Hayes, unknowingly developed by Safety Valve 24 hours earlier)
At this point in our warmarama, a figure quietly (as if on hybrid power) appears out of the gloom. Ambling up, confused, perhaps lost, the mysterious man speaks: “Is this the F6 Catalina Wine Mixer?”
And so we added some more celebratory side-straddle hops to welcome YJ.
First Thang:
Indigenous Peoples Run – starting with pretty annoying music.
Trivia for merkins: the song was too easily identified as “Bad Boys” from Cops, so the level 2 questions were activated: nobody knew the year the show premiered (1989) or the artist (Inner Circle). Honeysuckle knew the tangent trivia that Gloria Estefan sang “Bad Boy,” and of course Enron nailed the movie trivia (Will Smith and Martin Lawrence). 10 merkin reward.
Stop 2
Popeye knows his CHiPs, answering the first two questions here. Honeysuckle called out the band 7Mary3 (LL cred). The next question drew a pause (“is this a trick question?”) before a few PAX answered that 7Mary3 originated at W&M. No merkins.
Stop 3
Apparently this new guy (or is he a downranger?) YankeeJeaux likes dags. You like dags? He even knew Turner and Hooch. 10 merkins because nobody knew about the Beagle Brigade or the Jim Belishi garbage movie K-9.
Stop 4
Giveaway question: who sings this song?
Impossible question: name 2 band members in the Police.
Since everyone only knows Sting, what instrument did Sting play? Honeysuckle immediately, confidently answered “bass”.
And speaking of sting? The final question:
In 1999, both of 47 year-old skydiver Joan Murray’s parachutes failed, and she plunged 14,500 ft, striking the ground at 80 mph, but survived due to hundreds of stings of what wingless wasp relative?
The takeaway here is that fire ants sting, not bite.
Next Thang: You can do it!
The song: “Can’t Stand Losing You”
The work: Thrusters, with a curl for every “can’t”. We maybe did twice as many curls as thrusters. The Police really know how to drive a point home using that repetition.
Edit: during this, somehow Honeysuckle came up with another member of the Police: “Andy Summers.” No word on which satellite beams music trivia to his brain, but the delay has been reported and someone at NASA has been fired.)
Thang 3:
YHC had formulated a Dora that was all points (Merkins, Curls, BBS), but that was scrapped for several reasons:
1. Safety Valve ran the same Dora yesterday.
2. 300 BBS yesterday led to abrasions on the area I believe the Jerky Boys referred to as the “ass-neck.”
3. BBS and curls are only half-points.
And so the Dora would be 200 merkins, followed by . . . 200 merkins.
Two songs on repeat would direct the partner: during song one (Walking on the Moon), lunge walk, with a jump squat on each ”walking.” During song 2 (“Canary in a Coal Mine”), partner runs a lap. Wasn’t thinking about another trigger for this, but since Dox asked (“ooo! Miss Bliss, you forgot to give us homework!”), there would be a burpee on “canary.”
All was running very smoothly…. Until Paradox tried to make a request? Now this beatdown was obviously inspired by the Exicon listing for “Roxanne.” But YHC always thought that using that song was a bit superficial, and maybe lazy, because The Police have so so so so so so many repetitive songs. I thought we could go deeper.
So when Dox wanted to hear “Roxanne” YHC first thought “ok, you asked for it,” and considered it… but then YHC remembered:
I don’t take requests.
And I’d cataloged a few more Police songs with triggers, so instead we would get to hear the very appropriate “King of Pain” while we held our feet six inches and raised them up on every “soul” and “king of pain.”
That left us with just enough time for a bit of Mary, and Jankee Jeaux quickly calculated that we had about 25 BBS of time left. We completed them during “Driven to Tears,” an Opus to the cloud of stank rained down upon YHC by YJ only moments earlier.
COT and Dox prayed us out.
Always an honor and a pleasure to lead.
SYITG,
AB
This Q we ran to the Levee and did our workouts at the amphitheatre and along the street lights.
We started the beat down with a warmup:
15x Jumping Jacks
7x Cherry Pickers
7x Windmills
10x Sun Gods (each arm)
7x Merkins
7x Mountain Climbers
7x Toe Touches
7x Tempo Merkins
7x Squats
Then we ran to the Amphitheatre to start the workout.
Using each set of stairs as a figure eight, we did:
20x Plank Toe Touches at the top of the stairs
10x Incline Merkins at the bottom of the stairs
20x Mountain Climbers at the top of the next set of stairs
10x Derkins at the bottom of that set of stairs
20x Plank Knee Touch at the top of the final set of stairs
Repeat 3 times
–Then, next round same round movements–
10x Hand Release Merkin
15x Bulgarin Split Squat (each side)
10x Diamond Merkins
30x Quick Feet
10x Spider Merkins
Repeat 3 times
Then we moved to the light poles.
We started the 44s workout:
11x Jump Ups
11x Hello Dollies
11x Bonny Blares
11x Pike Ups and reducing the reps by 1 at the start of new round.
We only got to round 7 before we had to head back.
We closed with a set of ab workouts.
We ended with the usual close out, sending us off with a prayer as the rain continued to come down.
Looking forward to next time!
Pardon my tardiness and misdescription…Q led PAX through various warm-up movements, of which I have no idea. “7 Minutes of Heaven”, core edition, was commenced. PAX then grabbed rocks, circled up with Q on football field. Q assigned each PAX ONE movement (crucial detail) to be performed. After 20 reps, PAX moved left and performed their neighbors movement. After 20 reps the routine repeated. After 3 transitions, PAX began forgetting what their ONE movement was. Confusion ensued and after 1 complete round PAX were left perplexed as to what movement they should be doing.
Relay races were next. 2 PAX, one rock, 30 yards, merkins and squats without letting rock touch the ground and both PAX must be touching rock at all times.
COT – FNG Named, Beaker!
Conditions: 77 degrees with 86% humidity
11 pax total with 3 splitting off for KnOT’s.
Walk backwards on the track. I read over the weekend it’s good for you.
Mosey to the rock pile for the warmup. Usual stuff finishing with 10 Catalina Wine Mixers IC.
Partner up and grab one rock, a big one. Pax 1 rifle carry while pax 2 does 5 ‘mericans and 5 squats then run to flapjack rock.
Return the big rock and grab a regular rock, partner stuff is over. Head to the parking lot.
Starting at one end using the parking lines as guides, do 5 curls, then run to gym for 5 burpees. Run back to rock and move one parking line closer. Increase by 5 curls each time up to 30.
Head to pavilion for OP, Rows, step ups, dips, and some rock calf raises.
Return the rocks, bear crawl for about a minute, then return to flag.
CoT
NMM
Humidity is back
Scantron convinced me walking backwards is good for the legs by putting it on the internet. Everything on the internet is true.
SYITG
Warmup:
SSH
Low slow squats
Grass grabbers
Arm circles F & B
Seal claps
MNC
Peter Parkers
Mountain climbers
Original plan was to run 2 laps around the track, but since the gate was locked we moseyed the outer path the long route to the new playground equipment.
There we partnered up for a half Murphy and modified some.
Collectively in total with your partner:
50 pull ups
100 push ups
150 Air squats
200 LBC’s
Rules were that you could give your partner a spot for pull ups, but during the other exercises, you had to be either planking or super manning while the other worked.
This went quicker than I expected so we added a round of Bench dips IC.
We then concluded the Murph with a run to the rock pile where each person got a rock for the following:
2 rounds –
1st round:
20 Curls
20 Thrusters
20 Rows
2nd round:
10 Curls
10 Thrusters
10 Rows
We add got on our sixes for presses with our rocks until I was told we were approaching 6:15 so we wrapped up and got back to the flag for COT.
Enjoyed leading as I continue to be more consistent and accurate with my counts. Thanks Mr. Rodgers for asking me to lead and thanks for encouraging the fallen warrior inspired workouts.
Shocker. I’m I had some music critics in the Pax. Bogey called a skip for penalty burpees. Hopefully Mahatma has learned more about New Orleans’ own Grammy award winning Jon Batiste.
Really good morning and setting to try something new and training preparation for upcoming Wild West Relay. Five PAX joined me at the beautiful and awesome Bogue Chitto state park to run a true Trail run on the Red Path or Gorge Trail. This is about as good as it gets for trails here in Louisiana, ~ 391 ft of elevation change and it gives you a work out.
For the most part we all keep together and took in the temps in 70s and low humidity. Probably one of the last for the year, but we all enjoyed it. See below for formal stats of the run and I want to encourage others to come to the next one on 6/1. More WWR folks, Rim to Rim enthusiast and general Ruckers will work fine for this.
https://www.strava.com/activities/11385170755
6.02 mi
1:00:38
10:04 /mi
Elevation382 ft Calories —
Elapsed Time 1:02:39
