It has been a while since my last Vortex post. I used to be a Vortex regular before I launched the Big Dance and started rucking on Tuesdays. Indeed, Tuesday is full of options as is any day in F3 Churham (insert stock bemoaning of how large F3 has become in Churham). Still, Vortex has always had a reputation of pulse-pounding workouts where duels became legendary.

Today, I tried to honor that tradition with a gentle crescendo of work, beginning with muscle and gradually transitioning to speed. In the spirit of challenging others and holding each other accountable, we played a game of cat and mouse, which I was going to flip entirely by having all PAX chase one man and call it the Gingerbread Man, but hey, not all ideas make it to prime time. Anyway, it’s true that nothing makes you run faster than having someone chase you. We revisited that feeling today, but first we started by getting up close and personal with the bathroom/picnic area next to the field. We were welcomed by warm temps and 18 PAX, and we wasted no time getting it going in the gloom!

The Thang:

One minute max: BTTW, lunge pulses, and hand-release merkins

45 seconds max: People’s Chair, slow and deep jump squats, diamond merkins

Back to the field: 10 burpees, 10 double-merkin burpees, 10 triple merkin burpees

Ark Loader Suicide: Crab walk to goal line, bunny hop half field, and sprint full field (and back, each one)

Gorilla walk to goal line, bear crawl to half field, sprint full field (and back, each one)

Cat and mouse. Assisi starts on end line as cat. Other pax line up on ’18 and attempt to beat him to the end of the field. Those caught owe 10 burpees. Repeato with Food Lion and Brick as cat (Brick got to choose how many he thought he could catch, with different penalties based on whether over/under).

CoT: Prayers to those fighting the coronavirus and a plea to all to do our part to figure it out, big or small picture, in our lives and in others’ lives.