Spartan Tough 2 – KesselRun

Spartan Tough 2 – KesselRun 2017.11.20

A crisp 45 degrees didn’t warrant sleeves for Drone but did seem to keep a few brothers in bed this morning – Extra T-Claps to Feud for making his maiden post. Still 5 strong, we went ahead and got after it. The obstacle course theme continues as YHC keeps his eyes on the upcoming CSAUP event and eventually the vision of flying past Jumanji in the Spartan Race and literally jumping over Chaser in the Mudrun in the Spring. The goal for today was active recovery; can we control our breathing during times of jogging, squats, merkins and even burpees to allow ourselves to keep pushing? Well… we’re at least better at it now.

Disclaimer and off we go to The Stein

The Thang

WarmUp:

· 30 burpees at the base of the stairwell

· Up the stairs to the top

· 20 burpees

· Down the stairs and enter the garage on level 2

· 10 burpees

Next:

Up

· Jog the flat sections and bear crawl the ramps, straight up to the top (5 levels I think)

o Is this a running exercise?… Well, my legs were hurting

· At the top – 20 burpees and popcorn core exercises until all had Q’d

Down

· Jog down the ramps and run the flats until back down to level 2

· 10 merkins and 10 squats – repeat until 6 arrives and then complete one more set as a PAX

Up

· Jog flats and run backwards up the ramps

· 10 burpees at the top

Down

· Jog down the ramps and run the flats until back down to level 2

· 10 merkins and 10 squats – repeat until 6 arrives and then complete one more set as a PAX

Last:

Quick Game of Stop Lights to head home – alternating jogging and sprinting at each stop light along the way

Achieved the goal of constantly out of breath and pounding heart. Cold, jagged cement was straight awful for the burpees and bear crawls. Probably could have skipped the core and worked in another up and down with straight running.

COT:

· Thursday /Thanksgiving Q is going down – come support Twinsie

· Holiday-Palooza at Flounder’s church – come experience the talents of many of our own Jax PAX and see how Hollywood and Diamond got their names – Details to be sent out by Flounder

· Discernment and strength as Feud picks up additional work after a colleague left prior to the holidays

· Wisdom, support, encouragement (and anything else that husbands need) for Bing as he comes alongside his M as she works toward her career/fitness goal