Shackleton’s Adventure

February 15, 2018

WHEN: 02/15/2018
QIC: WeedNFeed (VQ)
PAX: Floyd, Brick, Sweats, Sir Mixalot, Toolbox, Cardiac, Bells, Snots

9 PAX showed up at Tabacco Road ready to celebrate birthdays. Two, Sweats and Toolbox, were so ready, that they showed up early for a 4-mile ruck.

In honor of Brick’s birthday, he was given the power to stop the workout at any point and have the group do burpees.

The rest of the workout was in honor of Ernest Shackleton’s birthday, and his perseverance and leadership through a brutal expedition to Antarctica (https://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/08/02/leadership-lessons-from-ernest-shackleton/).

Warmup:
SSH x 20
WMH x 20
Good Mornings x 10
Merkins x 10

Good ol’ Ernest got all 27 members of his team through the ordeal alive. PAX did 27 commemorative burpees OYO.

Mosey around the peanut and selected rocks. Shackleton and co had to camp on the ice for 6 months and would have appreciated a ring of fire.
Held rocks overhead while each PAX took turns doing 10 overhead presses.
Held air squats while doing 10 squats each.
Held rocks out in front while doing 5 curls each.

Shackleton finally got men off the ice, but had to leave some on Elephant Island while he traveled on to get help.
Mosey with rocks to pull-up bars on Tobacco Trail. Left rocks and did Indian Run down the trail and back. Brick used his birthday privileges to extract 5 burpees from PAX halfway through run.

Having reached help at a whaling station on South Georgia island, Shackleton returned to Elephant Island to pick up his men. Found all still alive, and happily, all our PAX were still alive when we returned to pull-up bars. PAX with rucks kept up the pace impressively.

We rotated exercises:
Pull-ups, Top Guns, Australian Rows, Plank with shoulder taps, Derkins, Australian Crawls, Bicycle crunches, and Squats, with 10 Derkins as timer.

Mosey with rocks back to parking lot. With extra time, Brick extracted more burpees out of us, and we did some Mary.
Flutter kicks x 40, Plank with shoulder taps x 10, Peter Parker’s x 10.

Announcement for the Bull,
Saturday, April 14th. Spartan practice day at TBL on March 24th.

Prayer request for those affected by the shooting in Florida.