Watch out for those curbs

Watch out for those curbs

What happens when a site FNG gets to lead? In YHC’s case, he trips and falls flat on his face, non-metaphorically speaking. More on that later……

24 pax knew the greatest Q in the world was leading Peak 51 today woke up bright and early, took a breath of fresh air, and said “damn, I want to go sweat with a bunch of dudes in the gloom.” They chose Peak 51, and sweat was created in the following manner:

Thang

Mosey up to Trade St., hang a right, hang another right into a strip mall parking lot for COP

SSH x 24 IC (YHC’s method of counting the pax for planned weinke)
Merkins x 10
IW x 20
LSS x 15

Mosey down Trade, hang a right on John St. Cross over John when coast is clear, into the Post Office parking lot. Mary while we wait for the six:

Freddy Mercury x 15 IC
Rosalita x 10 en Espanol cadence

Meander on over to the hill for a round of Jacob’s Ladder. Didn’t know if the top was big enough for burpees, so pax did burpees at the bottom, ran up the hill and back down. Started with 1 burpee, went up to seven burpees. Plank when finished. After a few 10-counts, mosey back over John St. turn left to run through the townhomes, back around to the strip mall, with supposed residences on the second floor.

At this point, YHC had probably the most embarassing moment of my F3 life. As we were turning the corner to head to the strip mall, YHC caught a bump in the road and just bit it. Thankfully, the only thing hurt at that point was my dignity and pride #thankslongsocks. T-claps to the pax for not giving me very much crap about it #exceptsmokey. YHC definitely deserved it. It was funny. YHC has a feeling that if that happened at my more routine workouts, I wouldn’t have lived it down for a while. But I digress…..

At this point, “responsible” site-Q’s threw a wrench in the weinke. The plan was to do three-man grinders where the runner runs up the stairs, across the building, and back down. However, YHC was informed that those were residences up there and we shouldn’t mess with the stairs. Well, damn. We did not-as-good grinders across the retail shops in the building, LBCs at one end, tempo merkins at the other #formmatters

Since no stairs were involved, YHC got bored with this rather quickly, so we moseyed to the little track to finish off the morning. Did some prolonged protractor while we waited on the six. Partner up, P1 runs, P2 does called exercise.

Round 1 – squats
Round 2 – CDDs

Mary: Flutter, Dolly, American Hammer, Heels 2 Heaven, Box Cutters

Mosey back to launch, and we’re done.

Skinny

Big thanks to Booyah and Sensei for having me out. It was a lot of fun Qing a site I had never posted at. Supposedly, they’ve never used the hill by the post office – hopefully it will get into the regular rotation. It’s not huge, but it will do the trick for a moderate workout. Hopefully they’ll have me back out again sometime.

Burpees at the beginning are always effective in getting the heart rate up and warming up. Grinders would have been better with the stairs, but hopefully they kept the HR up for most pax. The little track was a nice quick loop, right up until the backstretch when it was a bit uphill and dead into the wind. Altogether, it was a pretty simple weinke, but hopefully all pax got their money’s worth.

Booyah and Sensei run a great show. Excellent turnout and everyone was really supporting one another – the definition of what F3 is. Keep up the great work, gentlemen. Thanks, again, for turning the keys over this morning.

Little Mike with the inspirational takeout.

Announcements:

Keep Fix-it-Felix’s friend in your prayers as he is dealing with a cancer issue
Richard Sheltra race in Pineville on April 29
Savage Race on May 13th in Concord. Area 51, SOBs, and surrounding regions are supporting this CSAUP in lieu of the Columbia mud run.