Important Note: Play this while reading
Skynyrd continues his rambling historically influence workouts with one inspired by Dan Carlin’s excellent podcast series on WW1 (Thanks Sneaky Shoes for telling me about the podcast)
Warmup:
- Random historical tunes and musing my Skynyrd
- SSH
- Willie Mays Hayes
- Boat/Canoe (Submarine)
The Thang:
Mosey to the field
- Cavalry charge – parner buddy carry to the end, do twn burpees, then switch and run back
- Do it again to the midfield and fo 5 burpess
- Air assault – mosey around the field doing cherry pickers
- Night maneuvers – partner bear crawls out while other does merkins, then runs to pick up bear via buddy carry back trench, repeat
- Crawl under the barbed wire – Tunnel of Love
- March amongst the pear drops (gas bombs) – lunge walk down the field and drop and do 5 merkins when you hear ‘Pear Drops!’
- Hey look, they invited Tanks! – Clank Clank I’m a tank, Beep Beep I’m a jeep (1 round with no weight)
- Battle of Passchendaele – Single file line and follow the leader and do what they say, less you fall in the mud and don’t get out.
- Wizbangs! – Steady mosey (stay together in one rank) and hit the deck and do 5 burpees when you hear ‘Wizbang!’
- Air Assault back to the parking lot
- Ring of Fire
- Boat and canoe
Announcements:
2nd F Wednesday (5/23) 7:00pm at the Briar Chapel Tennis Courts. Bring your beverage of choice and a tennis ball or two.
COT:
As the 100 year anniversary of the end of WWI approaches, I wanted to reflect on the scale and destruction of this event. And beyond that, wanted us to remember that history is complex, and every event is a preamble to something else. So when looking at issue or event in the current event, just try to give is a little extra thought before making a opinion. The second take away from learning about the war is that the people that failed to recognize the need to change and learn from what was happening around them, failed (and it had horrible concisuouse for their troops and men following them). So when facing problems in our lives, don’t get stuck in the past, but see the obstacle in front of you and think creatively on how to attack and overcome it.
Aye!
I was going to write a little letter to summarize the workout, but figured a real one would do just as good.
Dear Effie,
Very pleased to receive your letter, like yourself I find my correspondence voluminous for me at times, especially since I have taken on the duties of Platoon Sergeant which takes up more time than one realises at first. We are still in the trenches and have been in action twenty four days consecutively and I don’t know long we shall keep it up. Had a dirty time yesterday morning dodging damned great bombs the blighters were presenting to us without exaggeration they were eighteen inches to a two feet long and made a hole about ten feet deep and fifteen feet diameter at least we did not wait to see them burst. They can be seen descending through the air and then a scoot is made to get as far as possible round the corner, the iron and dirt seem to be falling for a minute afterwards, they are disturbing. Dicky Gilson has not been with us the last twenty four days, he broke his glasses and would not buy new ones (went to the doctor and all that and worked the oracle and was left behind with the Transport, don’t know whether he worked the ticket properly and got a safer job farther back, should not blame him if he has, his nerves have been in a shocking state, he’d brood a lot as you know that is absolutely fatal when you have a dirty job on like this. I have not seen either Frost or Kemball out here, do not seem to meet anybody fresh as we are always in the same district and relieve the same crowds generally.
Our pals the French in my opinion scrap jolly well except in the isolated instances which are given undue prominence by our chaps by prejudice probably. The casualties have certainly been enormous but a lot of them are a week old and one cannot form any opinion of what is going on by the lists, and I should not be allowed to say what I thought of our doings lately. Cronin is still with the 5th Bedfordshires and not out yet, I think not likely to be in all probability. Only wish we could repeat our swimming performance off Penarth ‘specially the Wednesday evening ones. Have heard rumours of leave being given shortly but do not rely much on it, have been offered a Commission in this Battalion and I may take it up if my papers go through satisfactorily.
Kindest regards and wishes to Mrs Lewis,
Your old Pal,
Billy
Links:
https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-blueprint-for-armageddon-i/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/war_losses_usa
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughboy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_I
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_in_World_War_I
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