Death Valley BB – more death than valley

  • When:5/11/2016
  • QIC: Swiper
  • The PAX: Header, Joker, Lorax, Madison, Tackling Dummy, Uncle Leo, Puddin' Pop, Lil' Mike, Hogie, Skywalker, SemiGloss, Tiger Rag, Starfish, Daisy, Gummy, Butter Maker, Fletch, Spackler, Fireman Ed, Turkey Leg, Lazy Boy, Swiper


Death Valley BB – more death than valley

Well it felt like death to me at least. 22 PAX were grabassing, smoking and joking and at 5:31, we launched.

Thang:

Warm up – SSH X 30, toe touchers X 30 seconds, merkins X 10, 6 inches X 20 seconds. Mosey.

Raintree hill halfpipe for 5 burpees (hilltop A), 5 burpees (valley), 10 diamond merkins (hilltop B). TR out front with a fatherly suggestion that we shouldn’t be playing in traffic. Omaha, Green, Omaha.

Raintree hill #2 (worse than #1) halfpipe for 7 burpees (hilltop A), 7 burpees (valley), 15 diamond merkins (hilltop B). Most everyone did 3 sets before some mary in the valley. Again, surprising amount of traffic but TR’s fatherly instinct never kicked in.

Valley to hilltop 1 (large hill) for 7s with jump squats and burpees. Mary to wait. Mosey back to HQ.

NM:

It seemed a lot better in my head but this was miserable. Large hills remind me of the BRR nastiness that is upon us. Summertime is here which means BRR prep is here. Hope everyone got their security deposit’s worth.

Thanks to Lil’ Mike for taking us out and for moving out to #SouthSide. One by one…

T-Claps to Spackler for wearing his Free Range shirt. Beginning to wonder if it’s ever washed. #Thooper

T-Claps to Kirk for offering painful suggestions for today’s suckfest and not posting. #HurtLegs

T-Claps to Starfish for participating. He was sold a bag of goods and accepted it rather cheerfully.

T-Claps to SemiGloss and company for letting me Q.

T-Claps to Fletch for staying on my heels all morning. Couldn’t shake him.

T-Claps for T-Claps.

Memorial Day Convergence 7AM at Symphony Park. Race at 7:45AM. Signups on the Interweb.

Commence Mumblechatter.

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Tiger-Rag
7 years ago

Excellent idea in keeping the exercise portions of the fun run in the street, around blind corners and over the hills.

Thanks for all of Raintree coming out to greet us this morning. Pretty good chance we make the newletter next month.

Starfish
Starfish
7 years ago

Could’ve sworn today is Wednesday not Tuesday. Death Twitch indeed. When will I ever learn to stay away from and his bad influences?

Kirk
7 years ago

The alarm went off, but I could barely roll over after yesterday to turn it off. Today wasn’t happening. Sundancer and I posted to 1st grade production of “Aesop’s Fables RE-MIX”, though…so kinda the same thing.

Warm-up aside, I see about 3 exercises + Mary, so I feel like my suggestions to find a hill and focus on a couple muscle groups paid off. Also, you totally lost the BB naming contest to “Fatties Gone Wild”.

Joker
7 years ago

Speak for yourself on the grabassing. Now, I did lead a July 4th workout a couple of years ago with some questionable partner exercises… but, pre-workout grabassing…. never.

So, when we moved to the tougher Raintree Hill I thought you might dial down the burpess and diamonds… but, you went the other direction. That’s just wrong.

Great Q Swiper.

Gummy
7 years ago

I had been thinking about rejoining the men of Fast Twitch until this morning. Those Raintree hills are terrible. In related news, I am not ready for the BRR.

For those who were part of my informal survey during the workout, Google says that a “westerly” wind blows from the west, not towards the west.

Spackler
7 years ago

I should have worn that shirt to HDHH

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