I checked the temp as I walked out out the door this morning to discover that it was a cool, crisp 81° with 91% humidity. Perfect weather for a F3 beat down.
We gathered around the flags and at 5:30am I gave the disclaimer and we moseyed over to circle up next to everyone’s favorite rock pile. My sparsely used theme for the morning is 90s alternative rock, so we did some extra SSHs to go with my title which is based on the 1995 Smashing Pumpkins album.
The warmup
SSH – 35
Parker Peters – 20
Hillbillies – 25
Smurf jacks – 20 (since I needed to get a few more side straddle hops in for the sake of my title)
The Playground
We picked out our rocks and took them over to the playground for a standard playground rotation exercise. Everyone got a partner and I tagged up with Mambi and Hand-Grenada. We rotated to complete sets of shoulder presses (with rock), pull-ups, under dogs, real freddie mercuries, burpees, and merkins. The count was 20 shoulder presses. We completed the rotation twice.
Slow Motion Suicide
We took our beloved rocks to the football field to complete a slow motion suicide. I felt like slow motion suicide sounded like the name of an alternative rock band from the 90s. (I just googled the name and Slow Motion Suicide is the name of an alternative rock band!) We did a slow suicide down the football field and back. We ran 1/4 length of the field with rock over head. We stopped for 20 curls and then dropped the rock to run back to the starting line and back to our rock. We took the rock over head to midfield for 20 bench presses. We ran down to the starting line and back to the rock. We put the rock over head to 3/4 of the field for 20 rows. We ran down to the starting line and back to the rock. We put the rock over head to the end for 20 LSS. Following a 30 count, we repeated the suicide across the field to get back to our original position.
Mary
We deposited the rocks back in the pile before circling up for some Mary.
Flutterkicks – 15
Penguins – 20
American Hammer – 20
Wife-pleasers – 20
O Dolly – 20
We ran back to the flags. At our arrival there was some controversy with Rudy complaining that he wanted 60 more seconds of Mary. I was ready to put her to bed, so we counted off followed by name-o-rama, and prayer. Thank you men for running and sweating with me. I would never be out there without you. 13 strong.
