Peak 51 Backblast 06/22/17

Peak 51 Backblast 06/22/17

Another glorious Carolina summer morning!  Well actually with it being June 22, it was the second Carolina summer morning – the kind of morning where one breaks a sweat just walking from the front door to the car.  Time to dial back the weinke and take it easy on the Pax, right?  Ha ha, you funny.

The Thang

Disclaimer given, QIC and the pax mosied up to Trade Street, over to and down Sadie to begin a fun field trip through downtown Matthews.  Stop behind BB&T for the COP:
SSH X 25

IW X 20

Windmills X 15

Hillbilly X 20

Word had spread overnight of the devastating accident the previous day involving Cheetah in Lexington, SC.  Booyah (co-site Q) advised the PAX and re-iterated the importance of safety when out exercising.  Whether solo or with F3.  High visibility clothing/gear and lights coupled with constant vigilance are a must.

Mosey to the front of BB&T.  The PAX lined up on the south side of the lot – bear crawl for 2 parking spaces and pause for 2 Merkins. Bear Crawl 2 more spaces and do 4 Merkins; 2 more and do 6 and 2 more and finish with 8 Merkins. Mosey across John Street to the Post Office to see what kind of pain could be delivered.  The PAX was split into two groups: group 1 followed QIC to the hill and did a round of 9s.  Bomb jacks on the bottom and squats on top.  Group 2 followed Booyah to the Pita shop.  Booyah led group 2 through two sets of the People’s Chair (with 50 & 70 air presses), a lap around the building and a session of Balls to the Wall.  The groups then flapjacked.  Once back together, we mosied to the grass field behind the pita shop.  Sprint to far end and when Q shouts ‘drop’ drop and do Mountain Climbers.  When Q shouts ‘up’ resume sprint until the next shout of ‘drop’.  Continue to far end of grass field.  Same idea on return except do Merkins on command of ‘drop’.  Re-form PAX and mosey back to BB&T lot.  The PAX dropped to their 6’s for Dolly X 25 and Flutters X 25.  Then the PAX mosied back on campus behind the First Baptist Church.  Back on the 6s for Freddie Mercurys X 25 and American Hammers X 25 while the PAX reformed.  With a few minutes of valuable time remaining and not wanting anyone to be deprived, we crab-walked 1/2 way down the parking lot and lunge walked the rest, Karaoke left back up the parking lot.  Karaoke right back down.  Jog to sprint back up the parking lot.  It looked the PAX wanted to lie down at that time so I happily obliged.  On your 6 and we did a round of protractor with each of 19 men calling out an angle.  A short mosey back to the start and we circled up for Name-o-rama.  Mindcrime took us out with special prayers offered for Cheetah, his family and loved ones.

Moleskin

I am thankful for the opportunity to lead this group.  Peak 51 was my first F3 post (October ’15) and it’s grown under great leadership of Sensei and Booyah.  Great core of men post regularly including Slim Fast, Snoopy, Sensei, Lumberjack, Winger, Cocktail, Tweetsie, Lois, Shake n Bake, Booyah, Costanza, et. al.  Great to have Zombie, Dora and Kawpowski visit us again – please come back as often as possible.  Hairband, Drano and The Mouth often drop in and Thurston and Mindcrime have also become regulars.  Great group of men and they always put out 100% effort. My honor to be associated with you.

Special thanks to Booyah for helping in the Q.  With the growth of Peak 51, I knew we could not all be on the hill simultaneously.  And that hill is an under-utilized asset that I definitely wanted to incorporate.  The obvious solution was to break into two groups and Booyah happily agreed to lead that group.  Thanks brother!