Return to the Horse Head

  • When:10/21/15
  • QIC: Voodoo
  • The PAX: Monk, Chowder, Bridges, Icicle, Double Ds, Ping (FNG: Travis I.), Tesla, Late Start, Babyface, Booyah, Voodoo (QIC)


Return to the Horse Head

11 PAX (including 1 FNG) posted at the Charge this morning for YHC’s return to PDS after a long hiatus. More on that later.

As is my custom, YHC pulled into the parking lot at PDS hot at about 5:27 to find a smattering of PAX standing around. Another few showed up and at 5:30, and a brief disclaimer was delivered to a mostly veteran crew.

Head to the carpool oval (at least I assume it’s for carpool) for a quick COT:

  • SSH x 20 IC
  • Bear crawl to the median (farther than it looked standing up)
  • IW x 20 IC
  • Jog back to start
  • Mountain Climber x 20 IC

Mosey to the near end zone of the football field and partner up. Size, speed, IQ, none of that matters.

Partner 1 runs to the Horse Head at the top of the stairs, Partner 2 performs called exercise. Flapjack until called # of reps/rounds is achieved.

  • Round 1: 100 x Heels to Heaven from near end zone
  • Round 2: 125 x Hand Release Merkins from mid-field
  • Round 3: 100 x flutters (both legs = 1 rep) from far end zone
  • Round 4: 80 x Low, Slow Squats (3 down, 1 up) from mid-field
  • Round 5: 2 rounds of burpees from near end zone

Mosey up to the bleachers for some bleacher work:

  • 10 x split squats per leg
  • Run up the stairs
  • 20 x Sister Mary Catherines (jumping lunges)
  • Run down the stairs
  • 30 x bench squats (squat until your six hits the bench)
  • Run up the stairs
  • 40 x calf raises
  • Run down the stairs
  • 50 x LBCs at the bottom

Mosey back to the start for some Mary and other stuff:

  • Dolly x 10 IC
  • Right leg dolly x 10 IC
  • Left leg dolly x 10 IC
  • Flutter x 10 IC
  • Sit-ups x 10 civilian count
  • Russian Twist x 10 IC (called by Double Ds
  • Plank work: regular, left foot up, left hand up, left hand down, left foot down, six inches (10 count by Icicle), regular, right foot up, right hand up, right hand down, right foot down, six inches (10 count by Tesla), recover
  • A few minutes left, so head to the wall for Peoples’ Chair with 50 air presses, then left leg up for 5 seconds, left leg down, right leg up for 5 seconds, right leg down

Circle up for Name-o-rama. We had to wait a few minutes while our FNG finished spilling merlot, which almost led to an unfortunate nickname. Thankfully, he pulled himself together and explained that he is a patent attorney at Alston & Bird who went to undergrad at Georgia Tech and law school at Georgia. No matter who wins the annual in-state football game, he’s happy. #HouseDivided He mentioned he worked on sonar technologies (#random) and was named Ping. In hindsight, YHC probably should have taken it one step farther and named him Crazy Ivan or something, but I wasn’t capable of making the leap in the gloom.

Thanks to Tesla for the take out in COT.

Moleskine:

YHC started in F3 about 2 years ago and the Charge used to be one of my regular stops. I was posting pretty regularly with a buddy (Shockoe Bottom) that lived in Foxcroft, so it was more or less in the middle. SB has since had to drop from boot camps due to injury, so I’ve enjoyed slightly more sleep by posting along the Route 51 corridor. It was nice to get back to PDS to see some old and new faces.

This workout was inspired by (blatantly stolen from) one of those early workouts. The Q was Tiger Rag, who YHC met for the first time that morning. YHC partnered with SB and we struggled to keep up with the rest of the PAX. It was a tough workout, but I remember enjoying the partner aspect of it. So, I brought it back and the PAX dominated it. I’ll have to increase the counts next time.

The bleacher set I stole from a workout around the same time where the Hoff was Q. I didn’t post at that one, but stumbled across it when preparing my weinke. By the time that was over, the legs felt like lead.

I hope everyone enjoyed the workout and got their money’s worth. If not, please reach out to the site Qs for a refund.

Thanks to Baracus and Double Ds for inviting YHC to Q. The Charge is a great AO with a great group of regulars and site Qs. I highly recommend everyone adding it to their rotation.

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Area 51/SOB, Meathead co-site Q

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Horsehead
8 years ago

Assuming that my commission check for this workout is forthcoming.

Baracus
Reply to  Horsehead
8 years ago

If Merlot spillage happens at a workout using The Horsehead brand, does that mean bonus royalties?

Booyah
8 years ago

“Twas my first time at The Charge. I thoroughly “enjoyed” it and shall return. Thanks for the Q, Voodoo.

Icicle
Icicle
8 years ago

It’s a great work out and also thanks Voodoo for letting me redeem myself with the 10 count I think I was a little tired from all that running

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