Twas a light showing this new year’s morning, with 6 brave souls showing up to start the year off right. One of my new year’s resolutions is to complete the Murph Challenge this Memorial Day. That’s a 1 mile run, 100 Pull-Ups, 200 Merkins and 300 Squats and another 1 mile run. This morning’s workout was the first of several to prepare the PAX for that.
Warmup
In-place: 20 SSHs, Self Love OYO and 20 Grass Grabbers.
Tha Thang
We then proceeded with a circuit of 5 Pull-Ups, 10 Merkins and 15 Squats, followed by a mosey down to the shelter and back. I got 8 full circuits in, plus 2 more partials (hanging for 10 seconds in lieu of Pull-Ups).
Mary
A round-robin of Penguins, Crunch Frogs, J-Los and Scissor Kicks.
Shoutouts
-Couch, for bringing 2 FNGs to this morning’s workout
-Acorn and Hawk Talk, said FNGs, who along with Couch, rung in the new year at Tipitina’s last night and then posted this AM
-JV, for actually completing the Pull-Up / Merkin / Squat components of the Murph on the first day of the year
-Willie, for showing up (albeit a few minutes late)
If anyone is reading this, I’d propose we start future holiday, or holiday adjacent workouts (e.g. day after Thanksgiving) at least 30 minutes later than usual.
Happy new year people!
