02/23/2021 - Iron Lion - Bad Time at the El Leon
AO: Iron Lion
When: 02/23/2021
PAX:
Number of Pax: 11
Pax Names: Baby Hands, Callahan, Chain Link, Chazz, Face Plant, Goldberg, House Arrest, Nacho Libre, Nosejob, Riunite, Sun Devil,
DR Names:
Number of FNGS:
FNG Names:
QIC: GOLDBERG
Introduction
The name’s Goldberg, I make black diamonds for the American working man, because that’s who I am, and that’s who I care about.Dip that toe in the black diamond water.
1 short (<1 mile run), some merkins, some farmer carries, all the feels. We’ll move quickly through transitions but it will be deliberate. This is designed for all most cardio levels.
Warm-O-Rama
Runner lunge
Pigeon
“wellness check” do 25 SSH, count out loud to 12 and then silently until 25. counting above 25 or stopping before or after 25 yields penalties.
Failure on the check. 10 burpees
The Thang
Thang 1:
Medicine Ball indian run. PAX split into (2) groups and ran an Indian run. Pax in the back had a medicine ball and had to run it to the front of the line. then it was passed backwards until it reached the last guy. repeat the process. Probably about a 3/4 mile run.
Thang 2:
Merkin pyramid. do 1. 15 second break. do 2. 15 second break. until the last pax tapped out.
Thang 3:
Pair up. 1 pax runs clockwise, the other farmer carries counter-clockwise. when they meet, trade positions. and the entire time, there is 1 pair in the center swinging a 35# and 53# kettlebell for 2 minutes. Counting reps.
Thang 4:
Ladder on the football field, in the snow. Carry your coupon to the 10. 1 blockee, run back to the goal-line. wait for the group, then the 20 and 2 blockees. so on.
Mary: captain thors.
Circle of Trust
This was not a fully formed thought. but i was noticing that adults gave a much different style answer than kids when asked about their favorite days.
Kids seemed to be more into the sequence of events and the interpersonal relationships. and adults seemed to focus more on the date or the setting.
i.e. my kids loved some day that I don’t remember, we watch a movie, ate popcorn and stayed up late as a family. my wife would say a random day on our honeymoon.
no right or wrong answer, but i think i like kids answers better.
Naked Man Moleskin
conditions sucked. hill was too icy and slick to use. asphalt was too slick to run fast on. so the overall pace suffered.
with black diamond Q’s, i focus too much on pushing a pace, and the explanation seems to suffer. need to focus on slowing down for 25 seconds.
medicine ball run didn’t really work, might be better when we can push the pace.
i think nacho and babyhands were the last doing push-ups, but they might have just been bored and wanted to move on. that’s fine.
all in all, not a bad outing, but not a good one. forgettable. which is fine. not all are standouts.
first workout where i noticed how athletic riunite is getting.