- When:05/05/17
- QIC: Hairball (QIC)
- The PAX: Chelms (R), Utah, Prohibition, Abacus (R), Shoe (R), Riverboat (R), Stryker, Pulp Fiction, Checkpoint (R), Scabby, Cane, Fallout, Ickey Shuffle, Snuka (R), Teddy, Brillo, Paper Jam, Bout Time, The Wall, Lorax, Hops, Margo, Hairbal (QIC)
Cinco de Mayo Bloodbath
Well, that was bananas.
Cinco de Mayo? Check. Pouring rain? Yep, had that too. Blood gushing out of some dude’s face We’ll get to that. Cold beer as a prize for winning the race? You damn right.
On a day of the year that’s slowly fallen out of my top 5, but still probably in my top 15 favorite days, I had the opportunity to Q a group of heavy hitters on arguably one of the grittiest Friday workouts around. Centurion used to be in my regular rotation – it’s a real treat getting back every one in a while. Best part about it today is having Q I could keep us the hell away from Palantine Hill. Instead, here’s what went down:
A disclaimer might have been given. An explanation of why the Q was shirtless was given. Off we went.
We headed up Little Ave past CLT aquatics and hung a right on Walsh down to the culdesac for COP. Imperial Walkers x 15, SSH x 20, Merkins x 15, CDD x 10; all IC.
From there we headed down Waterford Square past the pool, doing 10 merkins at each speed bump, after a quick pause for some squats we worked it right on Waterford Square to Carmel.
We crossed Carmel, slid past the crossfit gym and hit AYG to 51
Regrouping at the corner of 51, we hit an AYG to power station and regrouped
We worked our way into the office park. Each building in the park has a fountain. At 5 of the buildings, (you know, for Cinco de Mayo), we did exercises, then ran a loop around building
1. Derkins
2. Dips
3. Incline Merkins
4. Jump ups
5. Dips
We crossed Carmel back down Little Ave to the lot behind CCHS. With about 10 minutes left the challenge was set: AYG to top of the parking deck (jumping over the missing guys doing LBCs), via short ramps, down stairs and back. Winner get’s a Cinco de Mayo prize.
Back to the lot for some Diamond Merkins, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters, and Merkins.
Just for giggles, 10 burpees OYO.
Tha ‘skin:
A couple feelers went out yesterday on Slack for a prerun at different pacing. The 8″ pace crew met at 5 for a quick couple miles. As we rolled out of the lot, a guy wearing a safety vest (?) was walking next to a slow driving truck, through the CCHS campus. Hard to tell what his agenda was, but all seemed in check by the time we got back.
Speaking of check, Checkpoint got the grit award today. Rounding the building after fountain 3, he hit a slick spot on the pavement and took a nasty slide and bloodied his face pretty good. We circled around him and took turns patting him on the back until he got to his feet. All seemed ok- but he looked gnarly. In my former life in college I was a student athletic trainer and saw tons of busted up faces in wrestling tournaments. Faces bleed a TON. Hope you’re alright bud. Watch your step out there gents. There’s a gnarly pic of the grit, but I have no idea how to upload it.
Went with the skins look today. Ran the prerun and worked up a good sweat. After all the humid/rainy weather this week, the nips have taken a beating. I wasn’t willing to roll the dice, so ditched the shirt for the workout. Pro told me that with gloves on and a backwards hat I looked like i was going for the “shirtless garbage man” look. Best compliment I’ve received in a long time.
Winner of the king-of-the-deck race was promised a cinco de mayo themed prize. Bout Time was the first guy to break the tape and is the proud owner of a frosty Corona. 12oz, not those dinky coronitas. Best part about it is he ran in to the workout from home. Either he drank it before the run home, or now has a foamy mess on his hands.
T-claps to Riverboat and Stryker for making the trip down from LKN this morning, you guys crushed it.
Annoucements:
- Discussion series at The Stand – 3rd F at Panera immediately following Centurion on Fridays
- Burpees and Beer – Pro’s annoucement on the Burpees and Beer event received mixed feedback. Charity event in September targeting F3, Crossfit, OTF groups that involves exercise, beer, and charity. Stay tuned for more info
- CLT Craft Course – Tuck organized a brewery beer run/crawl on May 20th that hits many of the signature breweries in town. It’s a 7.5 mile jaunt and will end with a family-friendly get together at Sugar Creek. Starts at NoDa Brewing. RSVP here for an accurate headcount.
Appreciate the opportunity as always gents.
Hairball author
Save the picture to drop box and then you can put a link to it in the back blast (pretty sad that I know how to do this and you don’t). People are going to think we’ve switched to UFC style workout when they see that picture (or Checkpoint in person). It was narly and I was surprised it wasn’t bleeding more. Luckily none of the PAX from The Brave were there or they would have been puking at the site of blood.
Paper Jam apparently was not guilty of deserting the PAX without warning as I originally suspected. He was hanging back for the six and they lost us at the turn at 51 and Carmel (he is blaming Q for not waiting on the six but I will say we planked up for a few minutes so PJ’s story appears to have some holes). Hops and I got to miss most of the fountain work looking for him but did add to our mileage as I clocked in at 3.5 miles.
T-claps on the Corona prize. Next time I think we will have a prize by age division (each division being 1 year so I can win a prize). Bout Time was crushing it on the way home as I drove by so I don’t think the one beer impeded his performance. FYI – Corona uses the cheapest hops on the market and that is why you need a lime to drink it. And that is why I don’t drink it – Prohibition thinks Wicked Weed is going to use the same Hops once AbInBev takes over so go stock up on Wicked Weed while its still quality hand craft beer.
Chelms must be taking a page from the book on liberal revisionism (or at his age he just cannot hear that well anymore) as I did not blame the Q, we thought that you all made a right at 51 and Carmel so we cut through the Panera parking lot to catch up, only to find no one around. We thought about going to Palantine Hill but fortunately we ran into Scabby and Abacus and devised an alternative plan.
Just another great morning at Centurion.
In case you have not noticed, this is America, we don’t measure in meters.
We ran so fast through the Panera parking lot and back to the benches in front of CC that you must have missed us. It is good to be well loved by my peeps at Centurion, I was showing that same love to one of the newer guys. 🙂
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