You Don’t Have to Move that Mountain

“You don’t have to move that mountain, Just help me Lord to climb it.” – Nickel Creek

12 men men met in a perfect gloom for a Wolfpack Mountain Triple Shot.  We were blessed with a guest from Carolina, and to his credit I didn’t hear him mention the Panthers one time – T-Claps for that.  I didn’t ask, but I think he may also be a world-champion crab walker. #FasterThanJameis

This was my first time to Q a Friday workout.  We gathered around the flag for the disclaimer and we’re off.

The Thang

I wanted to prove that I was my own man, so we skipped the normal meandering mosey and headed straight for Touchdown Jesus (watch for cars).  We lined up by the LOYOLA sign fka the YOLO sign for the warm-up LOP.

All exercises were ran between the LOYOLA sign and TD Jesus (about 35 yards?) – High knees, Butt Kicks, Karaoke (down and back), Bear Crawl, Crawl Bear, Jameis Winston, Winston Jamies.

Observations:  1) The dewey (not Douille) wet ground was surprisingly cold.  2) Wild Turkey has to be the fastest Bear Crawl / Crab Walker we have ever seen ’round these parts.  I am going to check out some Area 51 backblasts and see if they just do Ark Loaders for 45 minutes.

Humbled by the Wild Animal from Carolina YHC led the PAX to Wolfpack Mountain.

YHC chose to do 15s up the mountain instead of 11s.  After realizing the Ole Miss grads were not in attendance I skipped the in-depth explanation of the arithmetic involved (Arkansas – 49th in Education, 1st in your hearts).

Start with 5 burpees on the south side and 10 donkey kicks on the north side as you run up the mountain increase the burpees and decrease the donkey kicks by one.  I think we ended up with a total of 45 burpees and 40 Donkey Kicks, but take that with a grain of salt (see previous mention about Arkansas being 49th in education).

Down the stairs.  T-claps to the Loyola campus maintenance department for cleaning up the urine and ice cream.

We gathered at the foot of the mountain for a Dirty McDuece climb:

•  Up the first incline and then gather for the COP (everything is IC x 12):  Merkins, Squats, Hello Dolly
• Up two levels and then: Left Hand Stagger Merks, Lunges, Flutter Kicks
• Up two levels and then: RH Stagger Merks, Toe Raises, Putins
• Up two more levels to the top:  Abe Lincolns, Beyonces, Freddie Mercurys (these went particularly well with my mustache).

Back down the stairs.  At this point we had 6 minutes left, so we went for the trifecta

Mosey to the outer stairwell and run up one at a time.  YHC went all wedding coordinator like and made the PAX space out.  Cross the top floor of the parking garage and run down the inner stair well.  At this point we moseyed back to the flag just making it in time.

Naked Man Moleskin

T-Claps for this PAX and their record-setting performance on Wolfpack Mountain.  Hopefully the record doesn’t stand for very long….I know I am perseverating on this, but I can’t get over how fast Wild Turkey can crab walk.  This is the gold standard to which the NOLA PAX must aim to acheive…Full Disclosure – I think the quote at the beginning of this BB was actually written by Trisha Yearwood, but I thought it sounded cooler to attribute it to Nickel Creek who remade the song.  If you’ve read this much of the backblast your realize that I’m not cool so I’ll be honest – I do love me some Trisha Yearwood… Continued prayers for RY and Agassi’s aunt…T-claps to Wild Turkey for leading us in a great prayer.

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