The Oak

The mission of The Oak this year was to bring the PAX together for fellowship and good sweat all while benefiting a group in need. This years recipient is the shelter down on Spruill. Stalker has been selflessly working on his own time to ensure that these few individuals who live in, quite frankly substandard conditions, have some sense of blessing by trying to get their kitchen in at least working order so they can have hot meals. Even though these residents have four walls and a door to stay in let me cleat by saying it is still an absolute shit holes. In the season of giving I thought there would be no better recipient then this facility.

1 Hour welcome party prior to heading out on the trail. Sprinkles kept the weinke organized while Stalker and YHC took turns granting the PAX wishes.

COP 4ct IC

25 – overheadclaps

25 – squats

25 – merkins

25 – LBAC forward

25 – Mountain climbers

25 – LBAC – backwards

25 – flutter kicks

25 – Burpees (on Q)

The Thang:  Part 1

11’s with Merkins and Squats

PART 2:

25 – Overhead Press (hold rucks or coupon up for 1 minute last rep)

Bear Crawl 100 feet to bleachers

25 – flutter kicks

Bear Crawl back to first bleachers

25 – squats with ruck overhead (hold ruck overhead for 1 minute after last rep)

fireman carry back to first bleacher

25 – wheelbarrow merkins with battle buddy

lunge walk to next bleacher

25 – wheelbarrow merkins

10 minute break for water and chow before heading out on the trail. We had pax pair up for log carries, pax carry two 10lb cut rebar, and a Gatorade cooler full of water to rehydrate along the way which was really not used ;-). Pax formed two columns and made their way down the trail for the hike. Along the way down the 7 mile hike there were 4 pain stations and 3 fundraising opportunities. Thanks to Sprinkles for recording everything and thank you to Harbaugh who, with injury, carried a flag for us and participated in some PT. the trail went as followed:

Stop 1:

25 Burpees on Q

25 – Squats on q

First audible at Mile 2:

100 merkins for $0/ 50 Merkins for $5/ 0 Merkins for $10

Stop 2:

25 Burpees on Q

25 – flutter kicks IC

Second Audible at Mile 4:

100 Flutterkicks for $0/ 50 FLutterkicks for $5/ 0 FLutterkicks for $10

from this point for the next mile Stalker had one pax solo carry the log while the other pax ran ahead .25 miles and returned to switch out until both reach the destination.

Stop 3:

25 Burpees on Q

25 hand release merkins on Q

last audible at Summerville Elementary:

15 pull-ups without a break for $0/ 10 pull-ups for $5/ or 0 pull-ups for $10

March back to Oak Road.

Mary:

15 mountain climbers IC

25 flutter kicks IC

5 Burpees on Q

 

Well done to every man who participated . Participation was lower then I was hoping to get but the quality of the men attending was immeasurable. Through the generous donations of those who attended in addition to those who could not but paid online, we broke the $1000.00 mark which is incredible. For those that were not able to attend please know that the generosity doesn’t have to be in the form of dollars. The impact can be felt through volunteering to help Stalker, bring prepared meals down, or organizing a church feed. Though sometimes we all feel defeated or like we cant win but you never know how good you have it until you visit an establishment like this.