Burns’ Hell Week Day 6 – Burns’ Ladder at Purgatory 11.7.2020

Burns’ Hell Week Day 6 – Burns’ Ladder at Purgatory 11.7.2020

QIC: Burns

PAX: Turnover, Root Canal (WD), Lemming, Lace, Bevo (Caffeinated), Huckleberry, D-Day, Bulldog, Pony Express, BAM, Argyle, Offsides, Splash, Spamalot, Ziggy Stardust, Sgt. Schultz, $5 Footlong, Boomerang, Undertow, Burns (WB/QIC)

YHC brought back Burns’ Ladder for Purgatory this morning. It was not well received 5 months ago at Parliament, so I figured it would be the perfect cap on a hellish week. Here’s a recap of that glorious morning in June: https://www.f3winstonsalem.com/f3/too-much-weinke-to-handle-parliament-6-9-20/

WoR: SSH, Abe Vs, Whirlies, Jack Reachers, and Michael Phelps

The Thang: Mosey to rock pile and get a “medium to large” rock. Then mosey to the field to find two lines of cones and a weinke. (YHC had to audible out of the parking lot due to the large contingency of pax who took the DRP at Speas this morning. Sorry for your wet shoes, backs, butts, and hands. It’s Hell Week, after all.)

Do the first exercise on the weinke, bear crawl or lunge walk from the starting cones to the end cones appx 25 yds out, mosey back. Do the first two exercises, bear crawl or lunge walk out, mosey back. So on and so forth down the weinke until time is called.

The Weinke: (all exercises x15)

Merkins

Reverse Lunge w/Block

Overhead Press

Freddie Mercuries

Wide Merkins

Goblet Squat

Curls

Low Flutter

Diamond Merkins

Side Lunge w/Block

Front Raise

Heels to Heaven

Ranger Merkins

Kb/Block Swing

Dips using Block

Plank Jacks

NMM: From what I could tell from my end of the line, all pax were getting after it and got over halfway down the weinke. Offsides, Lace, and Root Canal all got down the list to Ranger Merkins – I’m sure some others did too but there were a lot of you to keep tabs on while I was sucking wind.

After running this beatdown at Parliament with all exercises x20 and Purgatory x15, it’s clear to me that the only way you get through this weinke is at an hour long workout and with all exercise x10. Or x8. Or even x5. Some serious modification will be needed to the future versions of Burns’ Ladder.

Apparently there was incessant MC flowing from Bevo’s mouth, and it was revealed that he had an extra cup of coffee or two before hopping in the car this AM. Henceforth be it decreed that Bevo is allowed no pre-gloom caffeine.

Turnover’s Movember efforts were the target of a lot of MC that I overheard. The man is trying to raise money and awareness for men’s prostate health and this is how you treat him? I don’t care that he looks like he could be the driver of a windowless white van and maybe shouldn’t be allowed on an elementary school campus under any circumstances – it’s for a good cause, dammit!

BAM had some harsh critiques of the music this morning. Apparently the chorus of “Ride My Rocket” by The Jompson Brothers is a thinly veiled sexual innuendo. I hadn’t caught that before *shrug*

6 beatdowns in a row and YHC was the war baby at each. We need to do some recruiting, folks. Find the younger people at work, church, on your street, and tell them that amazing things happen in the gloom.

The biggest of T-Claps to Turnover and Root Canal who have made it out to all 6 of my beatdowns thus far, and are HCs for the ruck tomorrow to top it all off. It’s been really fun for me, and I’m sure they’ll echo that (right, guys??)

At this point, I’ve had 42 unique pax make it out to a #BurnsHellWeek beatdown, and that’s really special, too. This group means a whole lot to me, and I’m thankful that I got to do something #CSAUP and 42 of you were willing to experience at least a part of it. Notably absent from each: Palin.

Announcements: YHC wraps up Hell Week tomorrow with DashPaxRuckers. Launch from Whole Foods on Miller St. at 0645. Route: https://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/3542562706

Give Blood – Splash has sent out info on Twitter & Slack. Make an appointment this week!

Lots of prayer requests were raised, but my recording cut off so if I miss one please forgive me. Nightstick (Lee Hemphill) young daughter had emergency surgery this week as her cancer returned unexpectedly. $5 Footlong is battling multiple health issues and needs our support – walks during or before beatdowns, 2^nd F, and any other needs that come up. $5 also had a friend lose a child to miscarriage recently. Lemming’s father is in the hospital with heart disease related complications. Lace’s neighbor was in a car accident. YHC took us out lifting these and other requests up to the Sky Q.

Offsides – thanks for the keys. I’m doing my best to never have them again, aren’t I?