The morning air was wet with streaks of lightning off in the distance – a perfect setting of gloom for the Uptowner.
8 pax meet in the chain link box at Pontiff with high anticipation of what this morning will bring. YHC approached with a trash bag of goodies and his boom box fully charged.
Playlist started with “Greenie Rule” in effect. If you don’t know and are curious sift through my last couple of BB for description otherwise if you don’t care no problem as it will be in all future beatdowns that tunes are played.
Quick disclaimer with Charmine emphasizing that YHC is not a professional…..which I whole heartedly agreed and we kicked off the warm up.
5-7 of each
SSH
ABVAGODA
MNT MAN POOPERS
GOOD MORNINGS
5 OYO Burpees for good measure
Slow mosey to the kiddie land – 2 lines formed at the rings for pull ups 3 rounds of 3.
5 Burpees for good measure
Mosey back
5 more Burpees – at this point Bolt is seeing that YHC is at least attempting to maintain the focus towards 100.
Cnt off 1,2 until 2 4 pax teams created. Cones and bats brought out for relay challenge.
The 2 teams competed:
1st in dizydean burpee which was 5 times around the bat then perform 5 burpees run to the other side repeat 5 times around the bat followed by 5 more burpees then run back. Each time the bat was dropped another pax was to jump in. End in a close tie with Hokie and Charmine sprinting to the finish so ALL did 5 penalty burpees.
2nd was the same except no burpees after the 5 times around the bat – team 1 lost and had 5 penalty burpees yet most of not all pax on team 2 joined in.
At this point there had been 2 Greenie changes – YHC and Sandbar
Now the “game” – Cabbage-Burpees which was 1st played in the Summer of 2019 (before the world went crazy!!!! and things we know today are the unfortunate infiltrations of our past)
How it’s played:
2 pitches (if the pitcher sucks he will be penalized by YHC with Burpees then moved to a new position).
Strike Out – batter 5 BP
1st out batting team 2BP
2nd out 4BP
Ea base hit or advanced base equals a BP for the defense.
So a single 1
Double 2
Triple 3
HR 5
These are to be performed immediately after the batting takes place before next batter for both offense and defense.
1 burpee for ea run scores accumulated for the inning and performed between innings while changing roles on the field.
Losing team 10 burpee Penalty.
Team 1 – Hokie, Sandbar, Stroganoff and Mahatma
Def
Team 2 – Glamper, Bolt, Charmine and Rafiki
Mary – x 20 weighted ball with BigBoy sit ups
X 20 leg extension throws (you had to be there to understand)
FlipFlop
COT
Prayers for our brother TenderLoin who will be undergoing open heart surgery next Friday. No doubt God brought him into our Pax to help build a base of support both physically and spiritually for what lies ahead. I’m confident he will be back on his feet in no time running the track.
