Ding dong ditch

Ding dong ditch

Reading the title, I know what you’re thinking, but no, oddly enough, this is not the Horsey McHorseArse backblast.

However, this is how it was explained to me that I start a workout when I have the Q.  Let’s go (ring the bell) and run.  Despite a 1-minute warning, new watch was a little slow to sync, so slight deviation today:

Thang

5 Burpees OYO

Shake out mosey to Carmel Pres for short COP – SSH, Mtn Climbers, Squats

Mosey to Pellyn Wood with brief pull of the reigns to remind everyone to keep it down #underwhelmed.  Mosey to Walden Pond – dips and derkins…plank walk right. Recover.  Calls for symmetry ignored.

Mosey to La Maison Dr – now, I’m no Spanish major and I haven’t taken French since elementary school, but shouldn’t it be “Le Maison”?  Anyway, digressions aside, we more or less piled up in something that could loosely be considered a circle with no real middle (or in SG parlance, this was more like a jelly-filled donut than a traditional).

Flutters, LBCs, Freddy Mercury, merkins

Mosey back to Walden Pond – dips, derkins, plankwalk left.  Russian Twists to keep the pax from leaving too soon.  Mosey to Howland.

Backward run up.  Squats at the top.  Recover down.

Backward lunge walk to the 2nd driveway, then backward run up.  Recover down.

AYG to the top.  Recover down.

AYG to the top.  Recover down.  Knee ups at the bottom.

AYG to the top.  Mosey back across Sharon View to the back of RTS.  Larry Birds did some planking that kept the group mostly together.  Mosey back to launch point.  5 burpees OYO. Fin.

COT

Announcements:

F3 Golf – if you’re going to play or want to play, sign up now
SOFAWIB – Swiper says tomorrow will be “historic”.  I have no idea what that means.
Pray for Ninja Turtle (son of Run Stopper) currently in the middle of a 5-month hike of the AT

Moleskine

Per the text from Bushwood, Hairball apparently pulled out last night #twss.  SemiGloss and I played rock paper scissors for the Q, and there was never any doubt he was throwing rock.  So, YHC got the conch.  It had been awhile at DMZ – probably since the time I ran in, likely got a stress fracture, and took a forced month off….so yeah, good to be back and still injury free.

If you aren’t running BRR, you are now one step closer to being ready to step in an as alternate #SemiGloss.  Quite a few hills in Pellyn Wood (3.3 miles worth per Strava), so despite several comments about going back, yes, we did; no, we didn’t re-use the halfpipe.  The decline plank walk was fun.  Little bit of a change up there.  Uphill backward runs are a staple and pair well with squats and lunges.  Nice way to ease into the week.

Loved the progressive pax expressions after each, “recover back down”.  Highlight of the morning.

YHC led from the middle (being generously optimistic) today.  Rachel, Square Root, Agony, Swiper, One Eye….list goes on…etc. were ahead of the Q most of the morning.  Coming back from IR is a slow journey.  Legs and lungs aren’t there yet.

Discovered during Name-a-rama that Bugeater was there.  Felt like this scene:  There you are.  Having just come off a shorter IR stint, you’re in there Bug.  You’ll find it.  See you tomorrow at OP.  I’m told it’ll be historic, whatever that means.

Appreciate the opportunity, gents.  Bushwood is buying beers at F3 golf for anyone who didn’t get their money’s worth today.

• Kirk