May 19th, 2017 By Heatstroke

On this Red Friday, the AO literally lived up to its name as 11 PAX rolled with stones in honor of the late Capt. Mark Stubenhoffer.  Mark was a classmate of mine, and baseball teammate, in high school, and then we also both graduated from Clemson University.  Other than being baseball teammates, we did not really run in the same circles, but I knew him well enough to know he was a great guy who was as comfortable cracking jokes as he was buckling down and working hard.  He would have fit in perfectly at a F3 beatdown.  Unfortunately, on 12/7/2004, on his 2nd tour in Iraq he was killed by small arms fire from insurgents while working overtime to ensure contractors had completed a security wall.  He left behind a wife and 3 children, the youngest of which he never got to meet.  With Captain Mark Stubenhoffer and his family on our minds, we got to work.  Disclaimer and we’re off…

Mobile Warmarama:

We needed to retrieve the stones for today’s work so we moseyed to their resting place but broke up the run performing the following:

• SSH X 20 IC
• WM X 10 IC
• Merkin X 20 IC
• CP X 10 IC – I would be more thrown off if there was clapping in unison at this point, I even did some off cadence clapping myself

Arrive at coupon station and everyone gets a stone and we prepare for the long mosey to the HRMS track.  I am wondering if this will be worse than that actual Thang.  We perform the following periodically (I’m a litle fuzzy on what exactly we did as I was just making it up as I went along) to break up the journey:

• Curls & Tri Ext X 10 IC
• Insert Kilowatt & Chachi here as they arrive on the greenway wondering what happened to the Friday Bell Buster.  Thanks for staying in the loop gentlemen (Bell Buster canceled in May for Red Friday) but am glad you made it out here.  Although, I would have loved to have read a back blast with 2 PAX doing an unauthorized Bell Buster beatdown.  Kilowatt & Chachi retrieve their own coupons and are able to catch up due to the stops.
• Goblet Squat with stones
• 5 Burpess – no stones – got tired of holding it myself, figured I give everyone a break

We arrive at the 1/4 mile track and head to the far end for the Thang.  We will be performing the Daniel workout and it goes like this:

• 50 pullups/inverted rows – we will be using some contraption (football equipment I guess) that is at the end of the field that will enable us to do inverted rows instead of actual pull ups
• Run 400M
• 42 Thrusters with stones
• Run 800M
• 42 Thrusters with stones
• Run 400M
• 50 pullups/inverted rows
• Run lap(s) if done early

Tclaps to those that finished the workout, I did not quite get there.  Apparently Whatley noticed some form modification with the rows that made it quite easier, PAX not keeping their legs straight out.  I would normally start calling people out for 45ing it on the form, but modification was probably necessary, as the work was pretty brutal.  No penalties for pulling a 45 here.  YHC had to call it for time and we began the long journey back with the stones.  We broke it up with a few Curls, Tri Exts, Merkins and deposited the stones back at their rightful place at the entrance to the greenway.  Let’s hope they don’t disappear again.  We knock out 20 Monkey Humpers and head back for a quick Mary.

Mary: In honor of Captain Mark Stubenhoffer’s 30 years on this earth, we perform 30 LBCs in cadence to close out the beatdown.

Announcements:

• Last Red Friday at RS next week and then on to Comanche
• King Tiger 5K 6/3/17 – let’s have a big F3 turnout for this MECA event
• Good luck to all the Mud Runners tomorrow – particularly Sparknut, Ty Webb, Sugar, Marie C (if he can make it,) Grinder (possible alternate) – that is a pretty tough group right there

Prayer requests for those mentioned below and their families:

• Captain Mark Stubenhoffer
• Marie C’s mother in law who is having surgery and is in not very good shape
• Eric Theriot who was killed in a car accident at age 21.  Attended church with Skipper at St. Marks
• F3 Papa Smurf who passed away this week after battling ALS

Moleskin:

Long back blast here.  Many thanks to all you gentlemen that posted today.  It was a great performance by the PAX this morning.  Big thanks to those that posted from other AOs, I will definitely be returning the favor.  TClaps to #1 for posting to all 3 RS Red Fridays this month thus far, thanks!  As always, it was an enormous pleasure leading you gentlemen.

Heatstroke

 

 

 

#REDFriday, Rolling Stone

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