Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

430 on a Saturday and yes, YHC was awake loading up Buckets, Sandbags an agility ladder and other gear into the Camry which was draggin’ tailpipe all the way down to Blackhawk. 540 arrival to the Blackhawk site, and yes this is a very strange hour on a Saturday morning for a car to be rolling up to a bunch of baseball and soccer fields and so I received a greeting from 2 of Lancaster’s finest inquiring about what I was doing unloading a bunch of buckets and sandbags out of my car at 540AM. No charges pressed and questionable looking subject test passed, I carried on setting up the gear portion on the OCR themed workout for the day. 6 on the dot as YHC was joined by Atlas, Ringer, Erector and Jingles for the Trail pre-run. Headlamps fired up and we were off.

Warm-Up

• Cobbler joined us as Atlas opted to warm-up the bowels
• Short mosey around the lot for the PAX to re-warmup the legs
• 20 SSH
• 20 Merkins (Civilian count)
• 20 Mountain Climbers
• 20 Moroccan Night Club
• 20 Hallelujahs (basically air presses given a jazzy name by Atlas, who had rejoined us after his poo by this point)
• 20 Monkey Humpers, for the sake of doing something called Monkey Humpers…I will grow up one day

The THANG (OCR TRAIL COURSE)

In the mood to mix it up a bit, I created a circuit utilizing gear and a very dark trail, which shook out to be all and all about a 1.5mile circuit. Going through the disclaimer and different points of the circuit, YHC noted that we would be staggering the start to avoid clusterf*cks out on the course and that yes, there would likely be times where you would be alone…in the dark…by yourself…and very alone…and scared. YHC looked around to see many unnerved looking faces and at this point Cobbler opted to go try and outdo Atlas’ work on the can. Here is the course outline:

1. 10 pull-ups on playground
2. mosey to parking lot for 30 yd bucket carry out and back
3. mosey to soccer fields for 50 yd sandbag carry out and back
4. mosey to opposite end of soccer field for agility ladder merkins
5. hit the dark and scary trail
   • .25miles in marker for 10 Burpees
   • .50 miles in marker for 20 Burpees
6. Reverse it back hitting the 10 Burpee marker
7. agility ladder merkins
8. 50 yd sandbag carry out and back
9. 30 yd bucket carry out and back
10. Finish w/ 10 pull-ups

To close out, the PAX circled up on the playground and YHC awarded the freedom to lead…maybe too much freedom…as we did dealers choice around the circle, in which the instructions were “Do anything that you want.”

• General – Pistol Crunch (surprise, surprise…) 10 each side
• Ringer – Choose your own adventure picking 1 of 3 exercises to do for 30sec
  1. Plank
  2. Merkin
  3. Plyo/In-Out Merkin
• Cobbler – When I said anything…I really meant anything but this…BURP BACK Mountain
  • 1 PAX does 2 hill sprints while other PAX do burpees, 100 aggregate burpees between the PAX made for some interesting early morning math where someone managed to do negative burpees…ATLAS…and so glad that the number was 100 instead of 200
• Atlas – Squats…yes, the boring, uninspiring, plain Jane, average Joe Squats…but 50 OF THEM! That’s how you throw some seasoning onto dish and make it a winner
• Erector – short on time, but not on pain as he dealt out the 20 OYO Diamond Merkins

Moleskinny

YHC will keep this brief as it has already started to turn into a Lord of the Rings length novel. Beautiful morning for a UvU style workout utilizing the best traits of the Blackhawk site. Solid work by all of the PAX to get out there, push themselves and manage not to soil their pants whether due to their fear of the dark or the Taco Dinner and Bourbon shots the night before. Jingles, way to get after the pre-run and OCR course and make it all the way through the course before you had to peel out, appreciate you coming out and look forward to getting you on the Q schedule soon. Erector gutty performance after logging 12+ trail miles the day before and absolutely destroying the legs, YOU CAN AND WILL CONQUER THE BEAST! Ringer as always killin’ the pre-run pace and appreciate you coming back for YHC on cone pick-up duty to make sure I hadn’t been claimed by any of the wilderness creatures. Atlas & Cobbler dropped the deuce and you were both full tilt and boogie afterwards and delivered the most punishing of the dealers choice for sure.

Announcements 

Check out the Pre-Blast for the SOB Holiday Party on 12/16

https://f3southcharlotte.com/2017/10/27/2018-sob-holiday-party-pre-blast/

Also, for an entrepreneurs out there I have an opportunity for you. Open up a diner in Indian Land. Yes, just a casual breakfast diner. No need to put in a fancy bar and 36 tvs. Only requirement is some sort of business acumen and maybe some experience with maintaining a bank account and/or checkbook. It would be like shooting fish in a barrel will all of the geriatrics in Sun City right in the area + a group of sweaty greaseballs on a Saturday morning…the last owner just couldn’t figure out how to pull the trigger.

Over & Out

-GENERAL