Or, Winter finally came to the lakefront and, hovering just above a crisp 30º, the six PAX responded with ease. It turned out to be a perfect morning even without a pair of gloves, and YHC’s sophomore effort at Q was slightly more successful than the first, with at least two members grumbling in the first half hour.
YHC missed the mile and a half warm up run, so the shovel flag warms ups were a quick 20 SSHs, 20 Imperial Walkers, 20 alternating shoulder taps, and 10 slow merkins all IC.
The Thang:
Mosey to RIPS for 8 minutes of AMRAP in honor of Blackbird, who we all hope will be returning soon: 20x forward-facing Rocky Balboas, up and over the stairs, 20x lateral Rocky Balboas, up and over, etc. until time ran out.
Mosey to the seawall for a set of 11’s: 10x Freak Nasties, jog to street for 1x Frog Jump forward and backward, jog back, all the way down to 1x FN and 10x Frog Jumps.
Then over to the gazebo where 5 PAX held a downward plank while one ran the perimeter and returned to tag the next guy in. This turned out to be so popular we reversed directions for another round.
Back to the seawall for some Bulgarian split squats: 10x left leg, 10x right, lunge walk halfway to the street, jog to the street and back to halfway point, then lunge walk the rest of the way back to the seawall. Rinse and repeat 3x.
After some confusion on the starting and stopping points, PAX did a set of sprints, 10x merkins, sprint, 10x parker peters, sprint, 10x peter parkers.
And finally, about half of Chewy’s famous butt routine: 15x Jane Fondas left leg, 10x quick left leg pumps, 15x JF’s right leg, 10x quick right leg pumps, 20x Dollies, flop over onto stomach for 15x scorpion kicks followed by 10 second hold of superman, 15x scorpion kicks followed by 20 seconds of superman, and time ran out.
Back to the shovel flag for count-o-rama, name-o-rams, and prayer. It should also be noted that just when we thought the lovely ladies had abandoned us for the cold, one turned up with a singing plant and some free banana nut bread to make it a perfect morning.
