The shovel flag is now a regular fixture at the Covington Trailhead on Wednesday mornings. City employees have embraced the PAX. One glance at Tank-Up counting out his Merkins have them convinced that we are some sort of retired SEAL collective.
So the PAX got down to business this morning with a dynamic warmup under the Gipper’s gaze. Multiple drills down a 20 yard lane…heel to toe walk, forward backward and lateral skips, lateral bounces, figure 4s, lunges with a twist, Frankenstein kicks, caricoa, hamstring sweeps, and a few more that YHC remembers from his soccer days but cannot remember as he writes this post…followed by 6 strides/sprints down the lane at increasing intensities.
Mosey to the Justice Center, spread out along the breezeway curb, and hit two minutes of toe touch bounces off the curb. YHC suggested that he would call out either #1 or #2 randomly at which point the PAX would execute vertical toe touch bounces (#1) or lateral toe touch bounces (#2), working hard to stay off the ground and in the air for as much of the two minutes as possible. YHC was thinking of making this a longer exercise but is glad he reigned himself in at the last minute. Two minutes was plenty as the PAX got after it and made every second count.
Well earned recovery walk to the top of the Justice Center Parking Deck where the Sky Q fortuitously placed a few sandbags. Mumble chatter from the PAX accusing YHC of pre-positioning supplies. YHC has to admit he would have done exactly that if he had thought of it. To give himself some time to figure out what to do with the sandbags, YHC set the PAX to running Xs on the parking deck. Sprint diagonally across the deck maybe 40 years to the opposite corner, mosey the length of the deck to the adjacent corner, sprint diagonally to the opposite corner, mosey the length of the deck to the adjacent corner…hitting as many reps as possible through and around the big square for 5 minutes.
Back to the sandbags. With 5 PAX and 3 sandbags, YHC challenged the PAX to move the sandbags from one side of the parking deck to the other. However, the PAX had to follow two rules: (1) the sandbags could not touch the ground and (2) no PAX could walk or run holding a bag. It took a minute but only a minute before the PAX worked out a system to get the bags moving, passing them down the line and sprinting to the head of the line like an Indian Run with multiple sandbag exchanges. Fun exercise, and the PAX will see it again if they ever ask YHC to Q in the future.
Mosey back to the Trailhead for a Merkin wave 50x IC.
Count-o-rama, name-o-rama, and Tank-up prayed us out.
Thanks for letting me lead.
