Conditions: Partly Cloudy. 72 degrees. Humidity 92%. Wind 5 mph from the South
Pax: Boo, Buxton, Fast Tax, YHC, Hokie Don’t Call Me Pokie, Mayhem, Pool Party, PVC, Triple Shift
Arrived a few minutes early to find PVC warming up. I filled him in on the Special Ops Mission he would need to lead.
After giving the disclaimer I told Fast Tax and Triple to go with PVC. Given the look on Triple’s face, I’m pretty sure he believed he was getting the Black Tahoe. From his perspective it makes sense. I’m sure he feels he has been dangerously close for a while now. The Special Ops group headed right towards the Rock Pile. Boo, Buxton, Hoke, Mayhem, Pool Boy and YHC headed in the opposite direction.
Quick Mosey to the light pole on the south end of the park. Pretty sure I’ve never done a warm-up here. Hopefully Fast Tax will be glad to hear that I was mixing things up.
Warm Up:
YHC used the warm-up to let some of our newer members practice leading in Cadence:
• Pool Boy – SSH x 26
• Mayhem – Imperial Walkers x 15
• Buxton – Grass Grabbers x 15
• Pool Boy – Peter Parkers x 20
• Mayhem – Tempo Merkins x 20
• Buxton – Low Slow Squats x 20
The Thang
Continued around the path headed east and then North to the first baseball field. Divided up into two groups of three. Pax 1 did pull-ups on the bleachers, Pax 2 did merkins, Pax 3 was the timer with 5 burpees. Rinse and Repeat.
Back to the path, headed north where we joined up with our 3 Special Ops friends. That took longer than expected. Maybe they ran into resistance. Did they have words with Rudy’s Caterer? She’s never accosted us before, but it’s possible that Triple Shift said something to set her off.
Triple Shift: Hey what are you doing?
Rudy’s Caterer: I’m walking. I walk here every day. 78 laps.
Triple Shift: Your form is all wrong. Look at your hips. They’re all out of alignment.
Rudy’s Caterer: I do this every day. I’m fine
Triple Shift: You won’t be. Keep doing this and you might not ever walk again.
Rudy’s Caterer: Hmmm….then I should do this now @$#%&#@!
At this point she jumps Triple, brings him to the ground and starts jumping repeatedly on his face as PVC and Fast Tax stand by in amusement.
…Or maybe our Special Ops are just slow. At any rate they joined on the levee for Clock
Merkins
• 6 o’clock (feet toward the top of levee, head toward the bottom) x 10
• 9 o’clock x 10
• 12 o’clock x 7
• 2 o’clock x 6
• 4:30 x 6
Continue our mosey around the track to the Hill. We had nine presents left to us by our Special Ops. I gave PVC very little instruction, but he did a good job (other than being slow as molasses). I was glad to see the variety of rocks and especially glad to that they brought Gibraltar.
11s – Start with 10 bench presses on the north side, carry the rock up and over to the south side and do a man-maker. Then 9 bench presses and 2 man-makers…..yadda, yadda, yadda…we did this for 10 minutes. YHC got to 5 bench presses and 6 man-makers.
At this point we had to hustle. YHC challenged the pax to get back to the rock pile before him. Boo succeeded. Drop of the rocks and Horses to the Stable back to the flag.
NMM
• Great job by Pool Boy, Mayhem, and Buxton during the warm-up. They all led like champs. Looking forward to some fresh Qs.
• The Bleacher pull-ups were fraught with danger.
• I concur with Hoke’s sentiments regarding the clock merkins.
• It’s not really 11s unless it involves burpees or man-makers. It’s also not 11s if you don’t finish. That’s on me.
• Don’t worry, Triple is as handsome as ever. His dust up with Rudy’s caterer left him none the worse.
• Guys pushed hard at the end. So good seeing guys with their hands on their knees or in surrender cobra when we finish.
