After my Okwata beatdown last week which led to many bites on several PAX I made a guarantee that we would not use the grass at UNO this morning. Thankfully our lovely website has several options for beatdown routines to be performed on asphalt and/or football field. And wouldn’t you …
A typical summer (in October?) morning with an atypical lack of a breeze coming off the lake led to a lovely humid morning in the gloom. 13 PAX joined me for a little prep workout for the upcoming H8 in 2 weeks. Disclaimer was given and off we went around …
“I just can’t get enough” – Black Eyed Peas Another notch on the belt for The Chamber, F3 NOLA’s newest AO. This was only the second regular, non-IP beatdown which opened up some options for venturing out of the parking lot area that’s been home to the past few workouts …
My quasi virgin Q came in the form of a Week 4 IronPax Challenge Beatdown called “Sugar’s Pick Your Poison” at UNO’s Chamber of Horrors. Tclaps to Kuch and Belloq for getting our AO ready. At approximately 5:20 AM, YHC kicked things off to the sounds of Earth, Wind & …
A couple weeks ago I helped out my fellow LVCC member Screw Top and we swapped Q’s. Unfortunately Screw Top went and had a minor setback and was not ready to return for his Q so I once again helped him out and took over my original Q slot. On …
Despite fair warning, 14 men set off into a pleasant September gloom this morning at Okwata. The warning: bring your running shoes, we’re trying something new. And so we did. Since we started doing Okwata, YHC has been wanting to run to the large Lakeshore Drive bridge for a change …
Four PAX decided to participate in the second week of the Iron PAX 2019 Challenge on a hot and humid Monday morning. After the disclaimer, we took on the challenge. “Meatloaf’s massacre” 4 rounds for time (Elapsed Time Scoring) Round 1: *10 Manmakers *20 Overhead Presses *30 Kettlebell Swings *40 Goblet …
With my LVCC brother Screw Top still nursing an injury I was asked again to do a relief Q which I gladly accepted. I spent Tuesday night scrolling through the Exicon for some suggestions and found something new (for me) and remembered something that I had not done in a …
Introduction to USMC Joey Bovia Sgt. Joseph “Joey” Bovia, USMC, was a native of Metairie, Louisiana. He served in the Marine Corps for six years. Sgt. Bovia volunteered for two deployments to Iraq and his last deployment to Afghanistan. He was the leader of a combat engineering platoon and was …
12 PAX were greeted with the perfect mix warm, muggy, and damp conditions at the new UNO site on Monday. Ideal setting to sweat out the celebratory weekend beers from a kinda-stellar Saints preseason victory on Sat followed by our little league dudes lighting it up in Williamsport on Sunday. …
