Black Diamond

#backblast #blackdiamond #attendancepost
PAX: Classified, Dirtbag, Icebox, Meatball, Oatmeal, Siesta, Special Sauce, Swiper
Q: Alright Alright
AO: Lindsley Park

WARMORAMA:
Side Straddle Hops x10
Imperial Storm Troopers x10

THA THANG:
The team has four bombs to diffuse. They must select a Captain to choose people for specific roles throughout the workout. They elected Icebox the Captain.

Run to Icebox‘s house. Diffuse Bomb #1:
20 Burpees & 20 Merkins for each PAX (PAX can share burpees). One PAX must do all 20 Burpees with the bomb (coupon). Another PAX must do 20 nipplers on the bomb instead of their merkins. (diffusers: Classified, Dirtbag)

Run to opposite side of Grand and up the hill to touch the guard rail. 5 Burpees for each PAX to kill the enemy that is shooting at us.

Captain Icebox was KIA. (He could no longer speak strategically, but was still responsible for his reps)

Oatmeal takes the lead. Appoints himself, but the PAX don’t disagree and there’s no time for argument or speculation of some possible friendly fire that might have taken Icebox out.

Run to Oatmeal‘s house. Diffuse Bomb #2:
Same Exercises (diffusers: Oatmeal, Special Sauce)

Captain Oatmeal was KIA.

Dirtbag takes the lead.

Run down Ash and down Santa Monica to the Santa Fe Trail to return to the battlefield at Grand. Repeato the fire fight.

Run to Icebox‘s house. Diffuse Bomb #3:
Same Exercises (diffusers: Special Sauce, Alright Alright)

The bomb needed to be delivered to the Combat Outpost for further investigation, so Captain Dirtbag sent Oatmeal and Special Sauce to take the bomb to Lindsley. Not sure how he got the dead man to do it, but we didn’t have time to discuss.

Run to Oatmeal‘s house. Diffuse Bomb #4 or not…. we were working through the diffusion when it was clear that we weren’t going to get it done in time, so we decided to get the bomb away from civilians and back to the Outpost to diffuse it. We arrived at the Outpost at 6:14 and were able to get some of our burpees done, but not all of them. MISSION FAILURE

Punishment for failing: 54 burpees (6 per PAX) and 180 merkins (20 per PAX). The PAX decided to complete these before COT.

Mission Totals: 3.78 miles (Strava told me it was a 7:57/mile running pace), 90 burpees and 80 merkins.

Thanks to the PAX for putting up with my creativity or lack thereof for this one. The goal of this Black Diamond workout was to put in some serious miles in preparation for the CSAUP on February 5th and 6th. Future Black Diamond workouts might be more stationary or involve shorter running distances. The key for Black Diamond is to get the whole group to push themselves beyond a regular workout.

Fighting HUNGER Black Diamond

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Dirtbag, AlrightAlright, Siesta, Big Tex, Double Pane, Oatmeal, Ice Box, Meatball, Sound Machine, PowPow
QIC: Classified

AO: Lindsley Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Performed robotically

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH X 15
  • IST X 10
  • Produce Pickers X 10

THA THANG:

Fight HUNGER Black Diamond

Competition to complete most rounds of the following:

  • ***Rifle Carry Coupon Between Exercises***
  • Hammers X 25
  • Upright Rows X 25
  • Newton’s Cradle X 25
  • Gorilla Squats X 25
  • Extensions X 25
  • Reverse Lunge X 25
  • Big Lap Around Park

MARY:
None, arms and legs only today!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out. Thanking all the PAX for coming out and hoping everyone finishes this holiday season healthy and safe.

MOLESKIN:
Found out no one reads Band as we had 3 of 11 PAX forget their coupons. I also found out that editing posts on Band does not throw out another notification as many PAX were confused about how food donations would reduce their rep count. The incentive ploy may not have worked as planned, but we got a proper workout in and piled up some donations. Those Newton’s Cradles were probably the worst and AlrightAlright mentioned his displeasure multiple times. Meatball forgot his coupon, but instead of taking the 30 sec run back to his place he used the mini-coupon I had. Needless to say he won the competition, but since his coupon was ~10lbs lighter, I’ll give the crown to Dirtbag, 2nd to Meatball, and YHC rounded out the field.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Get more food donations into PowPow!!!
  • Oatmeal is hosting a New Years midnight workout

Rump & Co. First Attempt at a “Black Diamond” Workout

Temp: 60°  
Weather: Little overcast but overall a beautiful post Thanksgiving day for a beatdown

Count-off & Name-O-Rama:
PAX:  Alright Alright, Teasip, Siesta, Prime Rib
QIC: Rump Roast

AO: Burleson Park

Disclaimer: Given 

Intro/ Warm-o-Rama
SSH x 1 (IC)
IST x 12 (IC)
Cotton Pickers x 12 (IC)

  

The Thang:
Mosey to the benches by the fountain
– 10x Erkins (IC, DC)
– 10x Squats (IC, DC)
– 10x Derkins (IC, DC)
– 10x Alternating Step-Ups (IC, DC)
 
Reap-O 3x… I was thinking this was a Dirty McDuece but, without looking it up that it may be 4-sets. Either way, the Double count was ambitious and none of us would have completed the 4th set! 
 
Mosey to the Quad
 
I’m going this workout Bear Crawl Dora! 
We partnered up and did – 
 
100x Merkins
200x Overhead Claps
300x Squats 
 
While one PAX did the exercises the other bear crawled across the center grass of the Quad, and across the sidewalk and back. We ran out of time on Squats, I believe Teasip and Shifty were in the 200’s and Bleep and myself we at 200 even. Moseyed back to the launch point
 

Circle of Trust (CoT):
YHC prayed us out

Playlist:
No music this morning

Moleskin:
I was extra motivated this morning for Shifty to give the disclaimer and lead the Warm-O-Rama. We had to prompt him a little on the disclaimer but did a great job. It wasn’t too far into my portion that Teasip proclaimed that he wished Shifty would have Q’d the entire work out! As soon as we started moseying to the benches it was clear my knee was hurting more than it has been. After the first set of step-ups I wanted to go home. So I modified my original idea of Jacobs Ladder to Dora Bear Crawl and I will tell you…. Between 200 Merkins the other day, @Arrrghhhhs beat down yesterday, 100x Burpees yesterday, and the Dirty McDuece it sucked! Everyone agreed! @Bleep announced that he officially hates Bear Crawling! Teasip on more than one occasion had some choice words, and even Shifty proclaimed this work out was the dumbest idea EVER! I took them all as a compliment! No doubt we ALL got better today. #acceleration #isi #giveitaway 

Announcements:
HH tomorrow – see Band