Conditions were 60 ish and perfect for a bootcamp, no rain just puddles from late night showers.

1 Minute Warning and Disclaimer given, time for some sweat equity to be paid out.

Quick Warmup: 25 SSH IC as BenGay rolled up with a coupon and off we go.

The Thang: Mogadishu Mile WOD

4 Rounds of the following work:
19 Ground to Overhead Thrusters (block touches the ground on the squat), 19 Goblet Squats, 19 Block Merkins (hard way), and 400M mosey with your coupon.

All PAX put in max effort and finished this sneaky brutal beatdown of a Hero WOD. Upon first look, 19 reps of 3 exercises doesn’t seem like a ton, until you do them after a 400M mosey with your coupon. Max effort by all PAX to honor those who fought and sacrificed for our freedom.
This hero workout is dedicated to the members of the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, and 1st SFOD-D (Delta Force), supported by pilots from the 160th Aviation Regiment (Nightstalkers) and other SF units, who went into the city of Mogadishu, Somalia to execute Operation ‘Gothic Serpent’, an attempt to apprehend key players in Mohammed Farrah Aidid’s dictatorship on October 3, 1993.

While the initial mission went smoothly, things took a turn for the worse when two aircraft were shot down, forever coining the phrase ‘Blackhawk Down’. Determined to not leave a man behind, and also facing the task of securing the crash sites, Rangers and Deltas, scattered at several locations throughout the city, under heavy fire, most of them wounded, and low on supplies, held their positions until the morning hours of October 4th.

As help from the 10th Mountain Division finally arrived, the armored vehicles could not accommodate all of the soldiers. At this point, some of them began their exit to a rallying point on foot, under heavy fire, dehydrated and sleep-deprived, all of them wounded in one way or another. This has become known as the “Mogadishu Mile.”

We Circled up, we counted, we named.

Announcements

Talon on Saturday, Dam Race

Prayer Requests

Spinner’s brother for sobriety and good choices, 1 yr old fighting in the hospital, Sour going through some things. YHC prayed us out.

NMM

It was a honor for YHC to lead my first RED Q.  Figuring out how long it will take a mix of PAX to complete a WOD is not my strong suit. So when YHC asked Crayola what he thought, he said “That looks like it will suck, let’s do it!”  And it was decided. An honor to lead on RED, and looking forward to doing it again. Until next time, Brut signing off.