I Love the Podcast and have replayed favourites numerous times - but although I typically just listen I wanted to mention the Mary Austin Workout
I just saw the movie Bohemian Rhapsody recounting the life and times Freddy Mercury - and I discovered that Mary Austin was Freddy’s commonlaw wife.
I will now be looking a little closer to these kinds of treasures. That makes suffering that little bit more fun!
I’ve wondered the same with every workout I do – where did that name come from?!
Fittingly, I have Mary Austin tomorrow. Maybe I’ll round up a Queen’s greatest hits playlist to help me get through…god knows it won’t be one of my greatest hits!
Schneum
November 10, 2018, 12:59pm
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good name.
this workout lets me feel like freddy mercury.
JulianM
November 10, 2018, 2:16pm
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IRRC originally the workouts were named after peaks in the Sierra Nevada. Where or how they branched out to now I don’t know.
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Had a chance to drink a Kaweah brown ale at dinner last night, wanted to like the sampler because just did that workout a couple weeks ago!
Rumpled
November 19, 2018, 10:36pm
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Looks to me like this is also named after a Sierra Peak.
Mount Mary Austin is a mountain east of the Sierra Crest and west of Independence, California. It is named in honor of Mary Hunter Austin, the author of The Land of Little Rain and natural historian who lived in Independence.
The mountain is located in the John Muir Wilderness. Special permits to enter this area have been required in the past since it is habitat for the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, an endangered species. The United States Forest Service does not advise the use of pack goats in ...
But, we can use our own interpretations; I guess.
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