Hawg stole YHC’s Q for this morning with IronPax Week III, and YHC was not happy.
YHC loves his precious F3 workouts and these stupid IronPax Challenges were just ruining a good thing. The first challenge left me hobbled like a 90 year old grandma, but YHC is into it now. After watching Amnesia and Hawg up their scores in week two by over 100 from their first run at the IronPax at the Birdcage to their second run at the Uptowner, YHC was ready to take up the challenge and work his way into top 100 in the nation for week 3.
Hawg weighed out a dozen 25-30lbs rocks, Mahatma set off cones 10 ft apart (we quickly corrected his mistake before the challenge started), and YHC led a warmup of 20 SSH and 15 PeterParkers.
Mahatma served as our time keeper as he recovered from an injury and we were off. The IronPax challenges are surprisingly quiet as we go all out trying to get in the most burpees and other stuff as possible.
This week’s challenge was a confusing one, but here it is in a nutshell:
15 burpees, 50 hand release merkins, broad jump (bunny hop) 10 yards and back
14 burpees, 50 goblet squats, broad jump (bunny hop) 10 yards and back
13 burpees, 50 leg lifts while holding rock in bench press position, broad jump (bunny hop) 10 yards and back
rinse and repeat while counting down the burpees
Once again JV is the tops of the morning with an astounding 626 reps
Hawg 532
RevSox 519
TripleShift 455
Tool 440
Rocket 431
FracSac 404
War Eagle 394
Two Utes 389
Amnesia 384
Abacus 265
YHC improved from 404 to 519. YHC points this out to say it was all based on watching his brothers tough it out last week in the challenge and push him to do better. You never know how you will challenge, encourage, or push the men out here simply by being present and challenging yourself. YHC is stronger and healthier thanks to all of you in F3, and he can’t put into words what this group has meant to him over the last 10 months. F3NOLA, keep pushing forward, so we can all journey with you.
RevSox
