YHC had the Q today and didn’t want to let the PAX down by not bringing toys. So I implemented an idea I had been thinking about for a while. A quick trip to the hardware store for some small chain and clamps, plus my two 45# ruck plates and 2 rings (whatever you call those things) where all I needed to make the Rings-o-Fire Farmer’s Carry coupon. Rings… because you carried by the rings. Farmer’s Carry… because that was the motion. Fire… because it didn’t take long for your grip/forearms/traps to start burning.
I put the coupon together, picked it up, gave it the “is it gonna hold together” test, and put it in the Jeep. I didn’t give it a dry run myself. I say this because I was admittedly surprised how tough it was. It pretty much kicked all our butts. You’d go about 1/10th of a mile and you were looking for someone to relieve you. But we all hung in there and each carried about 7-8 times over the 3.1 miles.
Weather: low 50s. Not bad.
1 minute warning, no FNGs, forgot disclaimer, prayer.
We farmer’s carried this route…
- Exit parking lot
- L onto Main Street
- L into Walgreens, travel parking lots behind Walgreens and Lizards Thicket (no stopping for breakfast!)
- L onto George Street
- R onto Hendrix Street
- L onto Duffie Drive
- *Optional PT time in park
- R onto Gibson Street
- L onto George Street
- R onto Hendrix Street
- L onto Church Street
- L into parking lot
Announcements:
Dam2Dam
Palmetto 200
Prayer Requests:
- Juice’s FIL (brain cancer,
- Co-Pay’s co-worker’s husband (surgery complications, vision loss)