13 brave men attacked WDOG in the gloom and here is how it went down.
COP: Regular Merkins, Right leg high merkins, Left leg high merkins, fist merkins
Curb crawl : start on curb 5 decline merkins – bearcrawl to next curb 5 incline merkins crawl bear back repeat 3 times.
Polarbears: polarbear (5 step bearcrawl then merkin) to the center of the circle – crawl polar bear back – repeat 3 times.
Field: On the end line run backwards to the middle of the field – 5 merkins – sprint back to the start 5 merkins – repeat 3 times.
4 corners on the brick patio: 10 merkins – 10- hand release merkins – 10 workins – 10 clerkins – repeat 4 times
Amp Theatre : 2 incline merkins at each step to the top
Indian run merkin style : runner at the end goes to the front once he reaches front pax stops and does 2 merkins
Ring of Fire : 2 rounds 10 fist merkins – 10 regular merkins – 1 round 10 regular merkins all together .
The story: If you have not guessed it yet YHC was wanting to make sure the pax knew that today was the start of the November Merkin Challenge! YHC also wanted to make sure that everyone had the opportunity to get off to a good start and it seems we certainly did that by completing 400 merkins – well done guys ! Although there seemed to be lot’s of complaining – grumbling – calls and pleads for side straddle hops – there was not much mumble chatter as the pax locked in on banging out some merkins this morning. Those of you that are only doing the breathing challenge this month – my apologies 🙂 but you did know this was a Swirly Q!
Speaking of challenges allow me to clarify the rules of an F3 RVA challenge. When a member of the pax puts out a challenge for the group it is obviously open to everyone – you choose to participate however if you choose to participate you must complete the minimum # on the challenge or increase the number you are not to sign up and write in less than the standard unless you are injured – recovering from an injury or have special permission/consideration from corporate. (if you want to do an independent challenge with your own number or exercise – go for it) but an all out pax challenge has a standard minimum # which if you sign up for is your goal unless you would like to increase it . These challenges are there to push us and I encourage everyone to participate and push yourself while involved in some friendly competition . Example : YHC may consider the breathing challenge – cause( you don;t just participate in the challenges you are good at) – if that were the case YHC would not be doing this 100k in a month Labrat – boom !
All this is to say – keep pushing yourselves fella’s – a great way to continue to do this is continue to come to F3 everyday because when you do – you will be inspired / encouraged by those men around you that give it their all everyday, and this will allow you to accomplish things you did not imagine you could. I’m so proud/blessed to be part of this group of amazing men – you each inspire me in some way all the time – I am grateful for that and for your friendship. Way to bang out some freaken merkins today !
Whether it’s merkins, breathing, running, reading, time with the family – whatever – challenge yourself – dig deep and make it happen put the effort in – (Growth does not happen by chance) and if you desire to be a winner – know this – Winners don;t sleep when they are tired – Winners sleep when they are done!
Swirly out!
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See y’all in the gloom!
Great Q Swirly. Everybody knew the merkins were coming. Thanks for getting the Merkin challenge off to a great start. As always, it is a pleasure doing merkins with this group of guys each and every morning
Merkin Madness I say. Does Corporate know it is a MONTH challenge, not a DAY challenge. I have never requested SSH until today.
Well done my sadistic, dedicated, intrepid friend!
Never good when your arms are shot 5 minutes in. At least I can say I was there when a year from now when someone mentions that WDOG where Swirly put 400 merkins on the Pax.
You all can thank Rosie for broadcasting the previous daily record of 385 merkins. Talk about poking the bear.
I can only imagine steam coming out of Swirly’s ears and him revving his engine like a raging bull seeing nothing but red and waiting for 0530 on the watch.
I had a feeling that record would fall today. Well done men. Good luck posting a comment or doing anything with your arms today.
I have been asking my coworkers to type emails for me all morning
And for the record, shouldn’t a backwards Bear Crawl be dubbed a “Bear Polar”….I was so confused….
I am still refusing to say anything that would encourage Swirly in what transpired this morning. If I were Cusack in High Fidelity and I had to make a top 5 list of worst workouts….I would have to think of 2 more. But the 3 that stand out are:
3. 1st post ever, where we did over 250 partner leg tosses (Earthworm)
2. Burpee Beast (Toga)
#1 with a bullet: today.
OUCH! (I will admit that I had it coming, talking trash on twitter yesterday)
Merk Merk Merkin Merky Merkin. Merkin merkin merkiN. Might have been easy to just start at the SF and say 400 Merkins OYO. Well done Swirly!
#4: Boulder carries over a slick grade at Batteau (Hardywood)
(Love the HF reference…)
Separately, I have NEVER had such a difficult time returning upward from a hand-release merkin…damn…