Sat, 26 Nov 16
Block 8, Wave 2 - Events
After 2 weekends of back to back competitions with back to back wins, I was definitely ready to just train for fun and kick it old school. As such, I dug deep into my bag of tricks from back to my early days of strongman with fellow Thunder Bears Steve Mattheu and Rob Rowland and busted out a hideously heinous death medley. See below for the vomit-inducing details.
Keg C&P
1x185
2x3x185
5x185
1x230
Just working on technique and changing up my pressing from doing all log all the time.
Single Arm Farmer's Walk
2x100' ea x 110
2x100' ea x 160
Death Medley
2 runs of:
-Single Arm Farmer's 100' x 110
-Keg Carry 100' x 185
-Prowler Push 100' x prowler + 140
-Single Arm Farmer's 100' x 110 (other arm)
My first time was 1:05 and I was able to cut it down to 58 sec on the second go round. Marc and Bill both also beat their first times on the second run, after which they both were alternating between wanting to kill me and wanting to die - hence Death Medley. This also made atlas stones suck major donkey grundle.
Stone Over Bar (51")
2x200
1x280
1x300 - Add tacky.
0x345 - Way too slippery.
0x375 - Even worse than the 345.
3x300
Today was my first time trying out the two new stones I got from the Gtown crew and I made the tactical error or not cleaning them off prior to using. As they had sat outside next to a dumpster for an undisclosed amount of time prior to coming into my possession, they are filthy and just ate my tacky every time I touched them. I was able to lap the 345, but slipped every time I tried to load it and couldn't even lap the 375 because every time I went to pull it over my knees and into my lap it slipped right back to the ground. I'll get them cleaned up and they'll be loaded next time I do them for sure. Also, there is nothing in the world more frustrating than having a stone slip on you that you absolutely know you could manhandle if it were cleaned up. Marc and Bill both PRed on stones today, so tip of the hat to each of them.