The H8 Debuts

YHC arrived this morning to Amnesty complaining about his soreness from Monday and self-proclaiming BS for his own Q.  I knew at this point that we couldn’t mess around this morning.  I can’t have him self-proclaiming BS for his own Q and mocking mine.  Best to try and keep him out of breath so he can’t talk.

There was an open date on the Q sheet for this morning.  It was my intention to take it, but I didn’t want to proclaim it, for fear Tool would not show up.  I had a special double dose of his favorite exercise planned.  Unfortunately, he either caught wind of my plans or was DR.

Gave the disclaimer as Cowbell rolled in with flag #2 to make us 6 strong.  To celebrate 8/4/2016 and my obsessive compulsion for numbers and multiples…

The Thang

Warm-up COP (all IC):  SSH x 16; IW x 16; Peter Parker x 16; Squats x 16; DQ x 16; Mountain Climbers x 16

1st Dose of Quadriphilia:  Line up on levee and run down and back up always facing the lake.  AMRAP for 4 minutes.

Mosey to the foot of canal for the debut of the h8.  Run south along the east side of canal to the top of the levee, cross the street, bear crawl across median and continue running south down the west side of canal, run back across the median at the bottom of the levee and north up the levee on the east side of canal.  Bear crawl across the median again at the top and head north down the levee on the west side of canal.  Run across the median when you get to the bottom, arriving back at the starting point.  At the starting point you do a descending burp and merk pyramid starting with 8 burpees (burpee with 8 merkins, burpee with 7 merkins, burpee with 6 merkins, etc.).

The route was basically a figure 8 on Canal with bear crawls during the portion on the top of the levee and a descending burp and merk after you finish each 8.  We did AMRAP in roughly 25 minutes.  With each lap, the burp and merk pyramid started with a lower number.  In OSHA’s absence, Amnesty suggested running across the street before starting the bear crawl.

After the h8 we headed back up the levee for the 2nd dose of Quadriphilia.  The Pax were excited.  Everyone loves that exercise.

That took us to the end of the workout and we moseyed back to the flag through the swamp that is Okwata.

Moleskin

I think the h8 has potential as an Okwata PT test.  AMRAP in 40 minutes one morning and then measure ourselves again a few months later.  The Burp and Merk Pyramid is a good way to keep count of your laps.  I think 7 in 40 minutes is a good goal.  I was disappointed that Kim-Chi didn’t splash this morning.  I’ve always wanted someone to splash during one of my Qs, but I am obviously not there yet.  Kim-Chi had potential after his late night ice cream gorging, but the workout was not quite hard enough.

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