Winter is Coming to Iron Throne
QIC: Crash
Date: 1/3/2022
PAX: Frostbite, Ziggy Stardust, Green Acres, Crash
YHC arrived about 10 min before workout having rearranged the to accommodate the monsoon. Had planned to use the white wall but it was standing in 2″ of water so we weren’t going anywhere near the fields. The weather had said 44 but feels like 27 which is the largest differential I’ve ever seen. Arriving there were driving rain conditions etc. Expected perhaps just YHC and Green Acres who had much to his chagrin HC’d the night before. Ziggy showed up saying ‘aren’t we supposed to work out in this’ and Frostbite arrived and we were off.
Had to case the AO a bit to find some spots we hadn’t utilized in the past that were a little more sheltered.
We ran to the courtyard and the covered corner for warmup and the first part of the workout.
Mission / core principles were recited with special attention to ‘in possible tornado conditions or relative calm’, then SSH, IST, Abe Vigoda, AST. Then getting to it. Put on some strange music and set up cardboard for
The Thing
A ladder – do 1, then 1,2, then 1,2,3, and so on thru end. During the warmup and as we began the ladder there was a lot of rearranging and securing the cardboard which was blowing away and starting to disintegrate.
- V-ups (banana) x 10, after one cycle we changed these to merkins to keep backs off wet concrete.
- Iron Mikes x10SC
- Squats x20
- E2K (Elbow to knee, i.e. mutton crunch) – we changed these to bird dogs with knee off or on ground, 5 each side
- Rocky Balboa x20DC (fast feet on curb) – did these at end and after running out to front assembly point for the curb, out of shelter, and then coming back.
- Inchworm in place x10
- One legged burpee x10 again altered to 2 legged burpee in the conditions
- Nolan Ryan x10DC, 10 each side
We didn’t really discuss as we were pretty focused on staying dry but some thought went into this – VISERION, is the dragon from Game of Thrones, the ice dragon. Appropriate for the day, as YHC was cold to the core by the end but this was intended as more of a celebration of the one year anniversary of the IT and we were going to be in the field doing other things and using the white wall. Maybe another day.
Moseyed around to blocks. Just edited post to add this as I had forgotten. We learned and did the ‘Hodor’ block carry – deadlift block, tricep / skull crusher motion bring block over head and back down. Hodors are fun and going to do more of these at IT. Found in the exicon and very appropriate to IT. 3x then sling over back or rifle carry the block to the area where we did the block exercises. Brought these back to another sheltered area we really hadn’t used before in the AO a bit more secluded and had planned:
9,6,3 each were planned of OH press, curl, upright row, squat thrusters, skull crushers, deadlifts, bent row, elf on the shelf alternating sides. Because of time I think we did 9,5.
Hodor carry blocks back to put them away then mosey back to courtyard to do 3-4 min of Mary and finish. For Mary we did I think SSH? and Nolan Ryans, 3 Huckleberry merkins courtesy of Green Acres, and finished this with Ring of Fire, starting at 5 Merkins.
Several comments were made about these being the worst conditions anyone had ever worked out in. Although there was some rain and a bit more on the walkways where we were we managed to find covered spots mostly out of the wind.
Thanks to everyone who came out, We’ll save the rest of the celebration for later.
No announcements – Special convergence this coming Sat though. Prayers for Giles’s wife and all of those struggling with cancer and other illness. Also for patience and gratitude for the new year. And gratitude for F3 and the men in it and the past year together.
