We were Soldiers
All All MECA BackblastsFebruary 2nd, 2016
23 PAX made it out into the warm Harrisburg gloom to join YHC for his VQ at The Ridge. At exactly 5:30 three cars were barreling down Raging Ridge. Grumbling began when YHC actually waited for them. Immediately counted off into one or two. Lined up in two lines (not sure why this is always so hard) Disclaimer provided and some grumbling about why we hadn’t started yet.
WARM-UP:
With the PAX lined up finally we began to march toward the High School. YHC kept everyone in step.. left right left. Once we mastered walking we did Double Time March. Again keeping left right left in step. The sound resinated off the surrounding buildings and was worth getting out of bed for. YHC then sang a little cadence and the PAX called it back. We made our way to the back of HRHS
THE THANG
Once gathered up in the well lighted recessed area behind the school instructions were given for “Fight Gone Bad”. It goes a little like this:
One minute of continuous workout to failure of the below excercises. Once each minute was up immediately phase into different prescribed workout.
Exercises:
Air squats
Merkins
Low Flutter
Burpee
Rest
Repeato for three rounds initially. YHC heard a lot of talking about Soccer, Soccer Moms, and other idle chatter which led YHC to believe that there were some Jelly Lubers present.
So… one more round of the above to make it a total of four rounds.
PAX lined up again in two rows. Appeared much easier this time. YHC was correct when he told @Tumbler (after much grumbling and some Jelly Lubing) that one never rises to the occassion, but only lowers to the level of his training.
PAX first Marched, then quickly Double Timed while singing cadence around the south/west side of the school, through the parking lot, turning right on Raging Ridge Road. At some point YHC ran out of cadence so @Bull sang something incoherent about @SoloCup but we all mumbled along. Return to the flag.
MARY:
We still had 7 minutes left. Group ran from the flag through the parking lot towards the hill. Stop at each island in the PVA and do 5 burpees. Do this down and back one time. There were 8 islands total which added 40 more burpees to the day.
COT
ANNOUNCEMENT:
- Someone, anyone please sign up to do the Spartan Sprint with @Chaos. He also needs volunteers to do some sort of Trifecta.
- Harrisburg 5K April 9, 2016
- Run/Stretch tomorrow at Harrisburg Town Hall
MOLESKIN:
Today we learned to walk, then run, then fight. I’d say “We are Soldiers”.
Thank you all for allowing me to make it through my VQ of Boot Camp. Hope it was fun and I tried to do something different. @SoloCup did grumble a bit and informed YHC that he would just sign up next time.
Always a pleasure to spend time with such fine men.
11 Comments on “We were Soldiers”
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Thank again gentleman. It was an honor.
Nice work this morning. New stuff is always welcome. Fight Gone Bad was tough!
UCB, you seemed like an old pro this morning. Appreciate your lead…….and entertaining change from the norm.
Congrat on your VQ. I Don’t remember being there this morning but I appreciate the putting me on the list.
Hope to see y’all on Thurs.
Fun stuff @UCB! There was even a @Gamma callout somewhere in the “sound-off potpourri”. I do think we had a VQ Bootcamp first… no cadence called exercises. Enjoyed the workout and #mumblechatter this morning!
Great Job bud…I’ve put your Training comment in a Frame on my desk.
Nice one this AM @UCB! You kept us moving (never mind @Solo at the beginning) and entertained us with the sweet melodies. Think @Bull needs some tips though because he started off alright but nowhere close to your caliber. Guess you can’t be good at everything. Look forward to the next one.
Great VQ, UCB! Looks like Hootie has come singing competition.
Great workout yesterday @UCB; the cadence run was a great way to kick the dust off in the morning and keep a large group together for the whole workout; next time I Q I may bring it back (whenever that will be)
Nice work in your VQ, although I missed having your socks on your hands.
@chaos I cant wait to hear you sing @Dicktracy socks come out below 35