Thriving in the Mist

Thriving in the Mist

Despite, the dark, the drizzle and NCDOT road closures, 13 PAX assembled at Thrive for a pre-BRR, leg-heavy workout and sweaty fellowship.

The THANG:

Disclaimer given we set off for a mosey around the parking lot to awaken any muscles that interpreted the darkness as a hint to remain asleep.

COP:

SSH X 25

IW X 20

Mountain Climbers X 15

CDD X 10

Mosey to side road:  4-island suicides followed by progressive LBCs (run to first island and do 5 LBC, run to 2nd island and do 15, add 10 more at each remaining island and finishing at far Stop sign with 45 (total of 125 LBCs).  Short mosey to the favorite hill at Thrive for a round of 9s – bomb jacks at the top and squats at the bottom.  Mosey back to the Stop sign for progressive merkins:  start with 5 and then add 5 more at each of the 4 islands resulting in a total of 75 merkins.  Mosey to the wall for several rounds of sitting in the People’s Chair with air presses (50, 100 and 150).  An additional round of sitting in the Chair and just holding your arms straight out was begun and then ditched by the Q (more on that later).  A quick stop at the picnic tables for 20 derkins and 20 dips.  Rinse and repeat.  Return to the parking lot for Mary:

Flutters X 30, Freddie Mercury’s X 25, Dollys X 20, American Hammers X 25 and a round of the Protractor.  Finished up with leg stretches.

My watch had us logging 2.31 miles.

Moleskin:

A little different feel at this edition of Thrive:  first it remained dark through the end of the workout (aided by heavy cloud cover) and the lack of oppressive heat and humidity was welcome.  Autumn is certainly getting closer.  My response to that is “thank you God!’  Also different was the lack of #mumblechatter.  I noticed it right away but when we got to the 4-island suicides and the usual chirping about whether the correct geographical term is island, peninsula, isthmus or something else didn’t erupt, I knew today would be different.  Even a shot across the bow at Glass Joe (#mumblechattererinchief) about Merkins requiring more movement than a head bob didn’t elicit much of a response. Strange times indeed!

While enjoying a rest in the People’s Chair and doing air presses, I had a flashback to Marine Corps boot camp and how the D.I.s loved to make us extend our arms straight out and hold them there and how quickly that became very painful.  So I thought I’d throw that in as a bonus for the PAX.  After a short time I realized this was going nowhere and there was no pain anywhere on the horizon.  Then it came back to me – we were holding our M-16’s at the time (#O2dep).  Without that weight we would be there forever before the pain set in.  So I dropped it and moved on.  I’m sure this could be effective with kettlebells, but I’m not a kb guy, so I’ll have to take your word for it.

We missed Woody who is in Houston dealing with the recent death of a family member and had the worst flood in US history added on as a bonus.  Thankful to God for his family and he remaining safe throughout #Harvey.  Also missed Hairband (out of town) and Mindcrime ( injured) – prayers also extended for you gentlemen.  Always a joy to lead this group – they bring the strong effort every time and are an encouragement to me!  Thanks to Shepherd for taking us out with our focus rightly on Jesus.