One man, one month, 50,527 burpees
Meet RoadKill, the 21-year-old who is destroying even the beastiest of MABA beasts
Log your burpees here. We’re on the home stretch of MABA (Make America Burpee Again) now. Six days left. We’ve already set records in every meaningful category — burpees done, people completing burpees, people who have committed to do burpees in Antarctica but haven’t turned them in yet (3!!!), etc.
We are on pace for 2,917,691 burpees. We’re not going to do THAT many and not break 3 million, are we?
To hit 3 million we need to collectively …
Log burpees you might have forgotten about/get caught up if you have fallen behind in logging them.
Encourage men at beatdowns who are doing burpees but not doing MABA to sign up and log them.
Up our pace by 82,309 burpees. Let’s pick a nice round number — 300. If we spread those 82,309 burpees among 300 men for six days, that’s only 46 burpees per day. You can be one of those 300, can’t you?
Host a monster final day beatdown with a host of MABA maniacs who do a zillion burpees.
Do me a solid, would you? Share this newsletter with anyone you know who’s doing MABA. MABA has more than 1,100 participants. But the MABA newsletter doesn’t have anywhere near that many subscribers.
‘Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing.’
My first thought when I saw James “RoadKill” Kindrick put up big MABA numbers was that my scoreboard was broken and/or it was a mistaken keystroke. Surely this guy didn't mean to input 2,500 ... but then he kept doing it. … Day after day after week after week.
Now he’s on pace for 50,527 burpees—that’s more than all but 14 out of 106 participating regions. He hasn’t dropped below 1,500 burpees in a day since January 6. I emailed him to find out what the hell is going on.
Hospital name: James Kindrick
F3 Name: RoadKill
Age: 21
Ralph: Why are you doing this?
RoadKill: I have always been really competitive, and at first my goal was to do the most burpees in my region. When I saw people putting up 1,000 burpees, I kinda told myself, “Game on.” I figured if guys who were older than me could do that many, why not go for more. I also just live to test my limits and see what I’m capable of.
Ralph: Do you have a total goal in mind?
RoadKill: Right now my goal is to do as many as I can squeeze into the month. I really just want to put out hard work to honor the men in my life who taught me anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing.
Ralph: You’re a student at Texas A&M, right? What year? What is your major?
RoadKill: I’m a junior Agribusiness Major at Texas A&M, I’m also a part of the Corps of Cadets at the university.
Ralph: Have you gone to any classes this term or have you skipped them all for burpees?
RoadKill: I’ve made it to all of my classes, I mean that’s why I’m at school. But I’ll do burpees any chance I get.
Ralph: I’m not sure if I should congratulate you or apologize for what MABA is surely doing to you. How does your body feel? What, if anything, hurts?
RoadKill: I was definitely sore at the beginning, but I think I reached a mental threshold that once I surpassed it, it was really freeing. I’m quite sure if I take an off day it will catch up to me.
Ralph: How are you doing them – all at once, which would take forever, or in batches, which also would take forever?
RoadKill: I try to get as much done early in the morning. I typically wake up at 5:20, but this past month I've been up around 5:00 just to get more in. Once I've done as many as possible I take a break then get back on it. And then I do burpees whenever I have some free time.
Ralph: What other endurance/crazy physical things have you done?
RoadKill: I’m a big runner. I’ve done some long distance races, but anytime I try to qualify for anything I tend to injure myself, hence “RoadKill.” I love to challenge myself on the daily with mileage and hope to run Boston one day.
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