Mileage and Merkins

Last week Puddin’ was looking for a volunteer to Q this week as apparently he and Goodhands have slacked on the scheduling aspect of being site Q’s. Anyway, was happy to step up as I have been trying to get to Hydra as often as I can and have enjoyed posting out there. No new faces in the crowd so I dropped a quick disclaimer on the group and we got moving.

The Thang:

Warm up run down Rae to the C/O of Colony and hooked a right down Colony. Went past the shopping center and circled up in the parking lot of that office/medical building.

Mountain Climber X 20
Slow Merkin X 10
(I’m not a big fan of the COP so made it brief)

4 Corners / Starfish

Corner #1 – Burpees X 10
Corner #2 – Diamonds X 10
Corner #3 – Wide Grip Merkins X 10
Corner #4 – Hand Release Merkins X 10
(10 merkins in the middle after each corner)

Mosey into The Colony Shopping Center and meet at the fountain. Each PAX grabbed a bench for 3 rounds of work:

Round #1 – 10 Step Ups (each leg), 10 squats, and 10 Monkey Humbers
Run to the far island in the parking lot and back.

Round #2 – 20 skull crushers and 20 derkins
Run to the far island in the parking lot and back.

Round # 3 – 50 dips
Run to the far island in the parking lot and back

Mosey over towards Dunkin’ Donuts for some Mary:
American Hammer X 20
Freddie Mercury X 20

Back to the Harris Teeter parking lot for 7’s (merkins and squats)

Bear crawl Indian Run (is that what its called???) across the parking lot

Mosey back to OPE.

Circle up and plank.
Each PAX holds in plank while PAX #1 does 10 merkins (while PAX still hold plank), PAX #2 then completes 9 merkins, etc. (down to 1).

Hit the little baby track for 3 laps to hit the mileage desired.

The Thang:

Pretty small, yet a very solid group this morning. The temps felt good so I wanted to get a few miles in. We ended at about 3.1 so was happy with that….although Frosty Paws seemed less than thrilled with the territory covered. Sorry. Queen took the lead on most of the running activities with Marge nipping at his heels.

There wasn’t a ton of chatter but we did learn that a good showing in pool volleyball at Windyrush “Country Club” in front of your wife can really pay off later that evening at home (per Frosty Paws). I’m sure Puddin’ is also familiar with that drill.

Puddin’ Pops light gray shirt was dark gray when we ended so I take that as a sign of a fairly decent workout.

Announcements:

– F3 Dads has started
– Goodhands made mention of something called “Slack” that Hairball is pushing on people. Puddin’ seemed less than impressed and said it was just a Twitter for F3. Who Knows

Appreciate the take out, Queen.

Thanks to Puddin’ and Goodhands for the chance to lead. Hope my VQ out here was good enough to get me on the schedule.