Only Blackbird could return from a week of backpack elk hunting in the Utah mountains refreshed and ready to humble the Covington PAX. EiEi is used to it by now but welcome Steve to the geriatric Covington PAX where sextuagenarians abound, and bound, and jump and crush and inspire the young PAX to get after it in the gloom every Wednesday.
So this morning’s Thang all started with a mosey to the Justice Center Veterans Memorial and a warm-up COP. SSH, windmills, squat thrusts, torso twists, Merkins, airplanes, arm circles…all IC 20x more or less.
Then down to business with lateral plank walks over a wide white line; back and forth IC 20x; then 20x hipslappers IC. Rinse and repeat. Quick mosey up the Justice Center Stairs and back for more white line work. Lateral hops back and forth IC 20x then People’s Chair hold for a long 10 count. Rinse and repeat 2x for 3 total rounds.
Recovery walk to Justice Center Oak Alley where YHC stole and modified Hawg’s bear crawl fiasco from F3 NOLA’s weekend convergence. Who says bad ideas have to die? YHC liked Hawg’s bad idea and figured it just needed a little fine tuning. So the PAX bear crawled to the first oak tree, lunge walked to the second, etc, etc. down Oak Alley and its 7 million oak trees. Remember this is the St. Tammany Justice Center we are talking about here; we like trees in St. Tammany.
Mosey back to the Trailhead for what seemed like another bad idea but actually turned out to be interesting and fun, a 5 minute pretzel AMRAP. Starting at the top of the Trailhead hill, the PAX ran to the nearby bandstand where they jumped, climbed, and otherwise got on the bandstand, then headed down either the stairs to the left or ramp to the right and back up the hill to the starting point. This one is kinda hard to describe with any accuracy and no one should try this at home, but the thing ended up looking like a bunch of moderately physically fit middle aged men running around in the shape of a pretzel. Blackbird lapped the field at least 57 times. This event definitely played to his endurance sports background.
A few ten counts later and the PAX were ready to finish off the morning’s beatdown. Desperately looking for a way to get even with Blackbird, YHC got the PAX moving with an 11…Merkins on one end and Burpees on the other. Thankfully the buzzer rang halfway through and without too much embarrassment we packed it up with a count-o-rama, name-o-rama,and prayer.
Blackbird is on for Q next Wednesday.
I owe the PAX about 33 burpees, and will do them tonight, for homework.
Glad to have contributed. Apparently Blackbird spared the Southshore Pax some humiliation by not being at the convergence. Turbo Tax humbled us all plenty by lapping everyone in the 4 corners drill. We are going to have to get to work down here.
I owe at least 33 burpies too. But I ain’t doing them for homework. I think I’ll take out a burpee line of credit and pay at a later date!!