After 8 Pax braved the subfreezing temperatures for the traditional Fetzer EC 5k (and one crazy solo rucker–Coco), The Churham Pax welcomed four Raleigh Pax to help us honor UNC”s NCAA Championships as the Men”s Basketball Team earned its record setting 16th #1 seed in the NCAA Men”s Basketball Tournament the previous evening.
The University of North Carolina was the first public institution of Higher Education in the Country–established via the State Constitution in 1776 and the only public institution to graduate students in the 18th Century. UNC”s Athletic Teams are nicknamed the Tar Heels (two words) and are in a the midst of some golden years where Football and Men”s Basketball teams have experienced historic success and their Olympic Sport teams are performing at an amazingly high level.
UNC”s teams have earned 42 NCAA Championships–21 Women”s Soccer, 6 Field Hockey, 5 Men”s Basketball, 5 Men”s Lacrosse, 2 Men”s Soccer, 2 Women”s Lacrosse, 1 women”s basketball (and a number of non-NCAA Championships and 51 individual NCAA Championships). These numbers would appear ominously throughout this workout.
Warm up
SSH IC x 42 (total team NCAA Championships)
Mountain Climbers x 42 (total team NCAA Championships)
Arm Circles x 12 (Field Hockey and M&W Basketball Championships)
Reverse Arm Circles x 12 (Field Hockey and M&W Basketball Championships)
Merkins x 42 (total team NCAA Championships)
Ski Abs x 21 (Women”s Soccer NCAA Championships)
The Thang
Indian Run (23 – (G.O.A.T.) – transitions/400 meter lap x 2 laps)
Mosey to Fetzer stadium steps
Box Jump up 21 (Women”s Soccer NCAA Championships) steps
Bear Crawl to Main gates, and plank
Circle up. Two pax pair up and rotate through 6 pull ups, then sprint to traffic arm at South Road and back, then next up… The remaining pax alternate between Merkins (2 sets of 21), Carolina Dry Docks, WWIIs, little man jumping jacks, ski abs, plank, left arm high, right arm high, etc. (all in counts of National Championship related figures) as we wait for each team to return for next cycle.
Once each Pax rotated through these efforts,we crawl bear”d down the hill to the McCaskill Soccer Center…we then did 21 merkins..and then 21 cadence count burpees.
Mosey to the track for some more team work.
Given that we were focusing on Team Championships, YHC only felt it was appropriate to finish off with some team work misery…
Pax were instructed to partner up by size…Each team Pax of two would alternate wheelbarrows with their partner, then buddy carry the remaining 200 meters…Pax really gutted the finish out and circle up for…
Mary
Box Cutters IC x 21 (Women”s Soccer NCAA Championships)
Heels to Heaven IC x 21 (Women”s Soccer NCAA Championships)
Super Man”s x 15 (Men”s Soccer, Men”s Lacrosse, Women”s Lacrosse, & Field Hockey NCAA Championship)
Flutter Kicks IC x 42(total team NCAA Championships)
COT
Talk of the Bull
Wuerffel shared a story of the power of F3 Community to help get a modest fisherman in Tanzania necessary medical treatment.
Aye!
Boucher