A Cruel Reminder

A Cruel Reminder

Today was a cruel reminder that I’m getting older.  After taking the red pill for the previous 3 days, choosing to include hairburners in the repertoire for this morning may not have been one of the best ideas for the Q…but the pax comes first!  So with that decision already made, a glorious shovel flag planted by Faultline, and damp AO ready for us to attack…I gave the usual disclaimer and we were off into the gloom.

The Thang

Mosey to the new lacrosse field for COP – (I had not seen this new addition to the AO, so had to check it out).  Pretty sure numbers and order are not quite right, but at least these are the exercises we did.

• Burpees x10
• IW x15
• Burpees x10
• MC x15
• Burpees x10
• Merkin x10
• Burpees x10
• Jump Squats x15
• Burpees x10

Mosey over to the parking lot, where the pax found many gifts waiting for them on the pavement.  Pax were instructed to partner up and pick a plate.  You know what’s next.  Partner 1 would do hairburner from one island to the next, and back while Partner 2 would do called exercise.  Exercises were:

• Squats
• Merkins
• Dolly
• Wide-arm merikins
• Perhaps one other exercise that I can’t remember

At this point I came upon the realization, a cruel reminder that hairburners, in fact, suck.  Especially on the tar infested surface of the Covenant Church parking lot!  BLC went over his plate, but recovered nicely.  A couple of near collisions and narrowly avoiding finger smashes.  I think there were a few pax that were relieved when I called an audible to NOT do the full 10 exercises I planned for.  But since we were right next to the hill, why not put it to use.

Triple Nickel w/ squats & heels to heaven.  5 squats at bottom / 5 HTH at top / 5x

I realized at this point that by skipping over half of the hairburner exercises I would have some time to make up.  So get back with your partners and we’ll make more use of the hill.  One partner would perform called exercise while other ran the hill, and flapjack until target number of exercises was achieved. I think we did the following…

• Merkins x50
• Wide-arm Merkins x70
• Diamond Merkins x 50

We headed back to the launch point to do some Mary and some running.  Again with partners…1 partner performs exercise while other runs the track.  Exercises were something like this…

• LBC
• American hammer
• Flutter
• Freddie Mercury

We finished with a little more Mary (no running)..

• Mahktar N’Jaie x 15
• Leg lifts x15
• CCV x 15 each side (there was some mumbling about tender elbows so we audibled to the grass for this final exercies)

Finish up with a cool down lap.

Moleskin:

Don’t have much time to spend on this today…so keeping it short.  Thanks for the opportunity to lead this morning Orange Whip and Faultline.  I was reminded of 3 things this morning: burpees suck, hairburners suck, and hairburners on a crummy surface sucks worse.  Hope you all felt like you got your money’s worth!

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