YHC showed up 8 minutes early to set up to find Uzi who knows how deep into a warmup and Dean Wormer already fully set up the arena for the day. PAX y’all. The best.
Music setup – check; timer – check; PAX – check
Quick Warmup – 30 SSH, PAX instructed to do what it takes to warm up on way to the field
IronPAX week 1 – THE THANG
5 rounds
- 10 yard broad jumps
- 10 burpees; 10 lunge jumps; 10 WWIIs
- 10 yard broad jumps
- 10 burpees; 10 lunge jumps; 10 WWIIs
- 10 yard broad jumps
- 10 burpees; 10 lunge jumps; 10 WWIIs
- 30 yard bearcrawl back to the start
Inner Monologues
- Round 1: pace yourself, pace yourself, pace yourself
- Round 2: good call on pacing yourself, good call on pacing yourself, dying
- Round 3: We have HOW many more rounds? TWO!?
- Round 4: Fuzzy, everything is fuzzy, the world is slowing, so is my time
- Round 5: I’ve done this 4 times, so I think I’m doing it right but I really can’t be sure because I’m just trying to maintain consciousness… oh I’m done?! cool
Timing ranged from YHC at 23:32 (with UZI hot on my heels @ 24:50) to just over 31 minutes. Proud of these dudes.
PAX mosied back to startex and we did 5 minutes of vigorous stretching – I warned the PAX that the hip flexors were not going to be happy about this one. It’s Friday morning as I write this and I am 3 ibuprofen deep for exactly that reason. STIFF.
BOM:
Closed with some Tennyson:
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.