- When:5/2/17
- QIC: One Eye
- The PAX: Poptart, Mermaid, Turkey Leg, Mr. Brady, ALf, Semi Gloss, Gummie, Fruity Flakes, Margo, Rachel, Slice, Fault Line, Header, Utah, Chin Music, Joker, One Eye (QIC)
SOFA Twitch
17 PAX gathered in the gloom for their weekly dose of Fast Twitch. Little did they know they were about to receive a healthy dose of SOFA WIB. Here’s what we did:
- Run from the school to the corner of 51 and Rea Rd. Plank on the six.
- Split into two groups – one on each side of Rea Rd – for the main event.
- Run up Rea to the intersection of Rea and Colony
- Forward run to the first light pole flip to backwards run to the second light pole — Stop for 10 burpees
- Forward run to third light pole and flip to backwards run to the fourth light pole – stop for 10 Merkins
- Forward run to fifth light pole and flip to backwards run to the sixth light pole – stop for 10 squats
- At each names street stop for 10 two count flutters
- Rinse and repeat up and back
- Run from corner of Rea and 51 back to the school. Larry Birds circle back to pick up the six.
- COP for 3 minutes of Mary – Rosalita, Heals to Heaven, LBC.
- COT
Moleskin
Haze reached out last week to see if YHC could take an upcoming take the Q. YHC is a relative newcomer to Fast Twitch as my usual Tuesday post was SOFA WIB prior to its untimely demise so I was feeling a bit of pressure to do a good job. Lacking the creativity to come up with something original, YHC decided to bring the Fast Twitch and SOFA WIB worlds together by running a variation of one of my favorite SOFA WIB workouts – Maria Maria (ask Kirk about the name). Alf apparently spends most of his days reading back blasts from workouts he doesn’t attend as he quickly let me know that recognized this as a SOFA WIB retread. YHC goal was to cover a respectable distance running and provide a solid upper body beat down. We ran just under 5 miles (over a mile of it backwards) with a healthy dose of burpees, merkins and squats. Mission accomplished. Strong work by all of the PAX – even those that skipped many of the exercises (you know who you are, Semi). Humbling to work with this group and thanks for letting me lead from the six.
Aye.
One Eye
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First, have to get this out of the way, HAHAHAHAHA! He said Monday he was going to pull this out, which I found hilarious. FT actually doing exercises, seemingly two weeks in a row. New record? Next week has to be track week.
Ok, now where was I, oh yes, the naming. Hat tip to SunDancer, who created this (though I remember Dumbocrats and no squats…but baby steps). It was slightly modified from his original plan, but he threw down a Rick Vaughn (Major League 2 edition) of “whoever completes it within time, gets to name it”. After that, it was a relatively standard “6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon” naming convention:
One Eye – first to complete in 45 minutes (plus run in / back from OPE)
Mark Sanford – recent politician led by ol’ one eye
Hiking the Appalachian Trail – where he was supposed to be
Maria Chapur – who he actually was ahem seeing
Maria Maria – SunDancer’s favorite song (I think “overrated” was the actual word)
So in short, the naming is a hat tip to One Eye with a subtle dig at the creator, SunDancer.
I did maybe 50% of the burpees, 75% of the merkins, none of the backwards running, but all of the squats and flutters. That was above average for the group on my side of the road. I felt bad for the lady that was trying to have a nice walk on Rea Rd. We kept running past her, then stopping for something, then running past her again. Awkward.
Good stuff, One Eye.
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