April 24th, 2018 By Heatstroke

YHC had made the proclamation a couple of days prior that for his birthday he would give himself the present of completing the 10K Merkin Challenge for April…and complete he did.  Here is how it went down.  After a short pre-ruck in the drizzle, 7 other PAX posted in dreary conditions, including birthday bro Kojak, to put some merk in.  With phone, bluetooth speaker and a sweet pooshy playlist, we were off after a quick disclaimer.

Warmarama:  SSHs mixed with upper body stretches.  Get the blood flowing and muscles ready to merk out

The Thang: Death by Merkins

• Pretty simple: 1st minute – 1 merkin, 2nd minute – 2 merkins, so and so forth for 30 minutes.
• Playlist was pumpin’ and motivatin’
• Super easy at the start…not so much at the end.
• YHC made it through 23 rounds and had to dial back to 10-15 for the last 7 rounds
• PAX were killing it and grunting became the new soundtrack when we hit the 20s
• Of course, Kojak, the pooshy monster, finished the whole challenge – 460 merkins in 30 minutes – not too shabby – he is now up over 13K merkins this month…ridiculous – he’s shooting for 15K

Mary:

• Ws X 43 IC – YHC Bday
• LBCs X 45 IC – Kojak Bday

YHC did calculations and found that he performed 366 merkins and that he was 9 short!  We ain’t leavin’ with meat on the bone.  All knocked out 9 single count merkins for YHC to officially finish the 10K Merkin Challenge – BOOM!!

COT: Prayers and supplies needed for the Greensboro branch of Kilowatt’s church, prayers for Marie’s mom, Sparknut’s family members, my dad and all of the unspoken prayer needs.

Sugar rightly spoke up to address our lack of a shovel flag (stolen) and our need to replace it asap.  Possible get-together this weekend to put a new one together.

Moleskin: I appreciate you fellas coming out for some celebratory merkins for my bday and completion of the 10K Merkin Challenge.  I can’t believe I finished in 24 days to be honest.  I thought I would be cramming in mad amounts of merkins on the last few days.  I really appreciate the push from the PAX currently in the challenge (almost 40 of y’all) including my bday bro Kojak who came over to celebrate, I would never do this by myself.

On my 43rd birthday, I definitely want to give thanks to F3, and all of my F3 brothers.  Life is a lot about creating good habits through discipline and accountability.  F3 provides all of that.  That fact that I woke up at 0415, pre-rucked in the drizzle, then led a workout, and that all that qualifies as normal behavior for me now is simply awesome!  It’s great to crush it before the sun has even come up.  So hats off to all of you that have played a part in me getting to this place.

Lastly, I have included that sweet, sweet playlist below for you to crush merkins any time you feel like it, you’re welcome.

Heatstroke

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