Waterbucket around the pond
AO: The Wreck
When: 07/14/2023
QIC: Raider
PAX (15): aflac, corky, Deadbeat, Donor, Hitch, Matt Shields-Norm, Meltdown, Mountain Mama, Pusher (Ader Jean), Raider, Rooney- timlonergan, TinyDancer, Write Off, Gypsie, Mango
Preamble:
YHC wanted to put to use a collection of HD 5 gallon buckets and saw a past beatdown on F3 Nation for the Water bucket Ruck challenge to support Water Poverty. Modified the WOD for The Wreck. Loaded-up 15 HD 5 gallon buckets in the back of the 4 Runner and headed to the The Wreck.
Warm-O-Rama:
Decomposed the numbers below which are the current facts about Water Poverty.
| 785 million people live in water poverty |
| 6 km – average distance a woman in Africa must travel for water |
| 40 pounds – average weight of water carried (5 gallon bucket) |
| 200 million hours – time spent collecting water every day |
7 Hillbillies
8 Weedpickers
5 Windmills
6 Burpees
4 Michael Phelps
20 SSH
The Thang:
Thang #1
Moseyed to the parking lot near the pond where a stack of buckets was waiting. Each PAX chose a 5 gallon bucket. Played Hank Williams song – “My Bucket’s got a hole in it”. On each word “bucket”, the PAX did a Diamond Merkin on the bucket.
Thang #2 Bucket EMOM
PAX headed down to the pond and after a quick snake check each PAX filled their bucket with fresh pond water. A lid was provided to reduce spillage. PAX worked through each exercise on the board within a minute and then started next exercise. Water-themed tunes played in the background.
| 20 Lunge twist with bucket |
| 25 Decline Merkin on bucket |
| 30 Chest Press bucket |
| 30 Rows with bucket |
| 1 Crab Around the bucket |
| 20 Right Hand Bucket merkin |
| 20 Left Hand Bucket merkin |
| 15 Bucket Thrusters |
Thang #3 Around the pond partner chase
PAX chose a partner. Partner A starting walking around the pond with a bucket full of pond water. Penalty for setting the bucket down was 1 burpee. Partner B chose a coupon and worked on an exercise on the board and then ran to catch up to Partner A. Partner A then ran back to board to work their next exercise while Partner B continued the lap around the pond. Rinse and repeat. Was able to complete 5-6 laps around the pond. Goad was 15 for a 6km but run out of time.
COT:
PAX learned some facts about Water Poverty and to appreciate the easy availability of clean water in the US. PAX had a small taste of the effort that those less fortunate must endure to get water everyday.