This fall, some of the PAX of the Northshore will be CSAUPing at the Spartan Beast obstacle race near Dallas. There is a palpably intense excitement in the air and this beatdown was designed to make sure all in attendance felt it. YHC, along with some some kind and committed brothers, arrived at 5:15 to begin setting up. We just beat the pre-thangers back to the flag in time to get things started promptly.
WARMORAMA
Warm up consisted of briefly attended tabata, and a garbled pronouncement of rules, regulations, and “the way things aughta go”, which, thanks to Jose’s requisite comments and interjections of others, were immediately and throughout the course disregarded, slightly adopted, and outright ignored. But a great challenge was mostly bested and a fun time was had by all teams of 2 who attempted.
1. Tire Shuttle – step in each of 6 tires while running through (QIC tripped and fell so never assume anything is TOO easy!)
2.Sandbag StepUp – holding 50lb sandbag, 10 Step Ups on sea wall (MAY have forgotten to mention the step up part)
3. Bucket Carry – 5gallon bucket filled with sand carried out and back
4. Sledge Hammer Slam – 15 wacks on the tire with a 10lb maul
5. Tire Toss – 2 tires tossed individually out and back
6. Sled Drag – 2 45lb plates on a minil sled pulled out and back
7. Battlerope – 3″ battlerope slung up and down for 15 reps
8. Rope Climb w/ Cowbell (not the short crunchy-frogging runner) – climb rope appx 12′ and tap the bell. As indicated prior to start, if a PAX was unwilling or unable to complete an obstacle, they were to complete 10 Burpees and move on. However, the rare and awesome challenge that a rope hanging from a tree posed caused a bit of a pile up by the time QIC and partner Shooter arrived. Immediately Shooter was pulled in by the tractor beam as well
9. Dummy Drag – appx 150lb hose dummy dragged out and back
10. Tire Pull – giant tire with long rope attached, pulled length of rope
11. Spear Throw – in addition to the Rope Climb, Farmer’s carry, Sand Bag, flags and cones our own Zoolander (aka Chaka Zulu)supplied his new favorite toy to be thrown at and stuck into a foam target strapped to a tree. However, our honorary FNG, Al Gore, let us know with great protest that we were committing arbocide and proceded to take picture of the crime scene, and tear down the foam target for good measure.
12. Farmers Carry – set of appx 30lb logs with handles carried out and back
13. Tire Flip – giant tire flipped end over end out and back
14. Sawhorse Hurdles – 4 8′ sawhorses spaced 6′ apart hurdled over
Strong Work, great fun, fantastic teamwork!
COT
Count, Name, Grappler demurred praying us out in lieu of Rev Russo.
Just a small taste of thing to come in October, gentlemen. Thank you for allowing me to lead you in tackling this Fire/Spartan obstacle course
Post Script: Many thanks to the many hands who made light work of picking up the coupons!
