A Zoom-based MABA beatdown

Sunday morning at 6 a.m. Central time. Link below.

Don’t forget to log your burpees! You can do so here.

           You’ve had those moments in the Gloom, right? By that I mean those singular, indelible moments, where you look around and think, there is something special, something grand, something bigger than just a bunch of guys working out, going on here.

            At The Last Stop in St. Louis, the entire workout today was a 60-minute string of those moments. Not only did we set an AO record (non-convergence/anniversary) for attendance (21), but it came on the coldest day of the year and what I think was the coldest beatdown ever for this location. As great as those numbers are, it’s the stories behind those numbers I’ll remember. I’ll remember Red Turtle’s brown beard turning white because it was covered in snow, CFIT’s spectacularly white eyelashes, Brick and Heisenberg wearing cowboy hats, and Serena sprinting at the end of a circuit, as he always does. (I’ll also remember feeling bad for the FNG, though I suspect that will pass. To his credit, “Taken,” as he’ll be forever known, not only posted on a brutal day, but he pre-rucked as well.)

            We made up a statistic to track days like this. We call it the Gloom Misery Index (GMI). You calculate GMI by the following formula: Degrees below freezing plus number of PAX in attendance. Today at The Last Stop, we set a new record: 51.

            That came from a temperature of 2 plus 21 PAX in attendance. Two degrees is 30 below freezing. So the formula today looked like this: 30 plus 21 equals 51.

            We did 100 burpees apiece, too.           

            With beatdowns like that, we’re going to get to 1 million burpees. As of this morning, we are at 941,191. We want to make a push toward the final goal tomorrow (Sunday). So please join us for a Zoom-based burpee workout at 6 a.m. Peloton will be your Q.

PreBlast: 2/14/2021 - Get your heart pumping for Valentines Day (with Early Morning Burpees)
Who: You!
When: 0600 (Central time)
Where: At home via ZOOM
What:  Burpees to a playlist.  Shooting for no less than 150 each. We need to knock out that MABA 1,000,000.
How: With some F3 Brethren so it adds to the tally!

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82673354011?pwd=b2xVTjdEb3l4WkFQL2JteGsrZ3VCdz09
Meeting ID: 826 7335 4011
Passcode: MABA