Smokey And The Bandit

"Tailpipe"

With a partner, row 250m while they hold two 53# kettlebells in the rack position. At the completion of the row switch places. Do this 3 times for time.

I was a third-wheel on this one so our time wasn't indicative of a pure performance. Our total time was exactly 6:30 rx'd. This was fun but those kettlebells really wore on the 'ol lungs. It felt like a was wearing a corset.
After that we did 5x300m shuttle runs in the side alley. My times were :53/:55/:55/:56/:56. I tried to stay as relaxed as possible and focus on my stride... seems to have worked fairly well. Anyone that didn't make a 300 in under 67 sec was penalized 25 mountain climbers. One athlete had 3 such penalties, and I was obliged to do the 75 mountain climbers with him. Afterwards my quads/hip flexors were smoked.

Chase Dem Rabbits...

AMRAP in 10 Rounds:

Burpees, 20 seconds

Mountain Climbers, 20 seconds

Rest, 20 seconds

66 burpees + 119 mountain climbers = 185 total

I Hate It When I'm Wrong

As many rounds as possible in 20 minutes of:

10 box-steps with 45# barbell
20 lunge jumps
5 chest-to-bar pull-ups


My man Russ asked before this WOD which segment I thought would be the "limiting factor." Having done lunge-jumps in the past I figured they would be a breeze, and the pull-ups were only rx'd a 5 per round so I answered that the box-steps might be a beotch once we got into it.

I was wrong.

The lunge-jumps got CRUNK after round 5... the box-steps definitely helped up the ante on these damn things and they got my lungs (and thighs) burning. By the time I made it to the pull-up bar I had to take a second and transport some oxygen across the sarcolema of my taxed muscle fibers and allow my buddy bicarb to buffer my systemic pH which seemed to be dropping like panties at prom. Long story short, I only pulled 9 full rounds, 10 step-ups, and 15 lunge-jumps.
Afterwards we had a little cookie where we partnered up with 2 others and did a rotation of 30 mountain climbers, L-sit hangs, and planks. The trick was that you had to hold the hang or plank for as long as it took each partner to blast through the mountain climbers. Simple right? Yeah, well I f*!ked it up. Little beknownst among civilians and other non-Marine military personnel, Marines do all their exercises at a double-count. For example, if you were told to do 20 push-ups you would do 20 four-count push-ups which in reality is 40 push-ups. Well, when my turn came around for mountain climbers I proceeded to do them as I was taught by Uncle Sam's Misguided Children. 60 mountain climbers later my agonizing buddies and their toasty abs were screaming my name. Oops...

Wrong again.