Slag Off

March 22, 2019

WHEN: 03/22/2019
QIC: Rebar
PAX: RG3, Rambler, Duplo, Mothman, Bright Idea, Closer, Skynryd, Fieri

Warmups

  • SSH x 30 IC
  • Willie Mays Hays x 10 IC
  • Arm Circles x 10 IC
  • Reverse Arm Circles x 10 IC
  • Imperial Walker x 15 IC
  • Slow Merkins x 10 IC

The Thang

  • Robert Cochran Dell was born in 1906 or as he liked to call it “ought 6”. He would be 113 years old next Friday. He grew up in Pittsburgh and retired as a salesman for Duquesne Slag. Slag is a byproduct of steel production, it’s a stony waste matter separated from metals during the smelting of ore. Check out Brown’s Dump on Google.
  • 6 burpees, OYO (“ought 6”)
  • Quick lap down the hill, 6 burpees
  • Back up
  • Gather the slag, we had 5 sandbags and 2 ruck sacks
  • Slag Wall
    • Slag traveled on a device called the Peoples Conveyor. All PAX in peoples chair and pass the slag to your left, Ricky Bobby when you are last in line.
    • Repeato the other way
  • 6 burpees
  • Slag Train
    • Slag had to travel to it’s dumping ground via train. All pax lay on the ground shoulder to shoulder and pass the slag to the right, Ricky Bobby when last in line.
    • Repeato
  • 6 burpees
  • Slag Hill
    • Slag was carried by hand up the hill, bucket brigade style. All PAX line up standing up the hill, pass slag to the left, once at top, carry the slag back down carefully.
    • Repeato
  • 6 burpees
Brown's Dump - West Mifflin Slag Mountain
Brown’s Dump above Century 3 Mall in West Mifflin, PA

  • 6 burpees
Slag being dumped down Brown’s hill

Mary

  • LBC x 30 IC
  • Boat Canoe

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COT

  • Do something that make someone 113 years later model a workout after you.