2 Kegs Fall Off a Truck

Waiting for the punch-line?  Sorry to disappoint, but there actually isn't one.  Instead, it is one of the single greatest moments in my drunk life!  Now that I use the empty kegs for strongman training, I am reminded just about every day of this one moment.

At the time, I was a manager at an Office Depot on the north side of town.  The shopping center was home to quite a few chain restaurants and it was fairly common to see beer trucks flying past the front of the store.  On this particular day, I was in the store's receiving area when a co-worker came over the radio saying that I needed to come to the front..."there is beer in the street".  I casually walked to the front thinking...what the hell is she talking about...did she say beer?!  As I approached the front of the store, my co-worker and a female customer are pointing and looking outside.  So of course, I had to get a better look.  Sure as shit, there were two kegs laying in the middle of the main circle of the shopping center.

The generous customer offered to bring her vehicle around so I could load them in the back, but before she could finish her sentence, I was in a dead sprint to the kegs.  Realizing I had no way of carrying them by myself, I returned to the store, grabbed a dolly, returned to the kegs, and loaded them up.  I would have beat Carl Lewis in a 100m sprint that day.  A few teenagers made a valliant effort in trying to snag them before me, but hell would freeze over before I let that happen.

I proudly wheeled my kegs straight through the front doors of the store to the receiving area.  I passed by my boss who had a confused look on his face, and several customers who asked when Happy Hour started.  As the story spread to more people around the store, my boss suggested that I load them into my car.  We loaded them into the trunk of my poor little Saturn, which now looked like it was riding on the two back tires alone.

As it ends up, one keg was empty.  The other...it was a full, ice cold keg of Dos Equis.  And I was scheduled off the next day.  Coincidence or not, there was about to be an impromptu keg party at the house!  I called and text a handful of friends, and although no one believed what happened, they sure did show up that night to help me float the keg.

Oh! And as for the driver of the beer truck, maybe the next time he decided to drive full speed through the middle of a shopping center, he made an effort to check that all his doors were secured.  Or maybe someone else ended up winning the beer lottery like I did!

Good times :)

drunk Grace

Grace is one of my all time favorite CrossFit workouts.  Why?  Because it is short and sweet, almost anyone can throw a 95lb bar around, so there is always some kind of competition, and I used to smoke everyone else in the gym.  And who can resist a workout made up soley of a clean and jerk...one of my favorite lifts, even though I am really not that good at it.  Although, I do have to admit the movement itself rarely resembles a clean and jerk.  Its more along the lines of a ground to reverse curl to rack and any way overhead.

For all the non-crossfitters and newbs to CrossFit, Grace is a hurricane WOD.  The original girl named WOD's were named after hurricanes, as in the ones that make landfall...duh.  Others, such as "Annie" and "Eva", were named after some of the original badass CrossFit women.  Annie, made up of double-unders and sit-ups, my least favorite WOD out of all of them, is named after Annie Sakamoto...one of my all-time favorite crossfitters (along with Jolie Gentry, the original Games Champion).

Grace is a 30 rep workout.  I have probably done it around a dozen times...sometimes just for fun as a warm-up and other times while participating in a fundraiser. It is one that I can complete in just a little over two and a half minutes.  Then there was "drunk Grace".  Come on, I wrote a whole blog about working out and drinking...you can't be surprised.  There is no telling how many beers I had already consumed, but I decided to do three rounds of ten clean and jerk @ 95lbs, each round was followed by slamming a 12oz cold Miller Lite.  I completed the workout in five and a half minutes...and managed to avoid hitting myself in the head with the bar.  So, what this all boils down to is that I decided to make a return to "drunk Grace".  Wait for it.....

30 keg clean and press...somewhere around 100lbs.  I don't know what you were thinking.  I finished all 30 legit reps, including a slight pause at the top, in just around 8 minutes.  Although I do know how long it took, give or take, there was no rush as I was working on my form through the movement.  Whereas in the past, I would have just thrown the bar around as quick as possible to get the best time.  But that is one difference between CrossFit and Strongwoman...quality of the reps are way more important due to the weight involved as well as the implement.  You can always drop a bar with bumpers, but a heavy keg hitting the ground due to bad form can easily end up breaking something...including a body part.