Man in the Arena

Beautiful Fall weather and 7 PAX converged on the Mandeville lakefront this morning for a beatdown celebrating EiEi’s 40th birthday.  YHC threw down Teddy Roosevelt’s Man in the Arena’s speech to kick things off in recognition of EiEi’s transformation from a fartsacking sad sack to a regularly posting Man in the Arena beast.

The Thang all started with a warmup COP:  SSH, squats, mountain climbers and IWs, all IC 40x.

Mosey to Rips restaurant for the next event:  400 seconds AMRAP of 20x forward facing Rocky Balboas using a parking space bumper, up and over the Rips’ stairs, 20x lateral Rocky Balboas, up and over the stairs, etc. until the buzzer sounded.

Mosey back to the seawall for 4 rounds 10x of partner leg lift throw downs and PTGs.  (Credit to Big Fish for PTGs, otherwise know in the military as Pray to Gods….on your knees with partner holding your ankles from behind….lower yourself forward as slowly as possible and then push yourself back up to the starting position in an explosive fashion).

Mosey down the seawall for a set of 11s:  Starting on the seawall, 10x frog jumps, jog to the road, 1x merkin, return to the seawall.  Worked our way down to 1x frog jump and 10x merkins.

Next up Carolina Choo Choos (aka Railroad Ties), a new one for the Northshore PAX as far as YHC is aware.  This one definitely looked easier on paper, but the PAX graciously played along and got in a good four rounds without too much mumble chatter.

Short mosey to another COP for Seal Jack Webbs.  Squats to seal jacks in a 1:4 ratio.  Starting with 1 squat IC and 4 seal jacks IC all the way to 10 squats IC and 40 seal jacks IC.  EiEi, who is NOT a mathematician (that would be Einstein and he is in Utah running a half-marathon this weekend), calculated that the PAX did 843 seal jacks.  YHC is too tired to check his math but suspects it is less than accurate.

Mosey back to the shovel for Mary:  a quick 40 round of Holyfields.

Count-o-rama, name-o-rama, and then Big Fish prayed us out.

EiEi Qs next Saturday, same time same place, but show up 15 minutes early at 0615 to get a run in before the Thang if you are interested.

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