Christmas Cookie work-off

Christmas Cookie work-off

As the PAX began to gather and exchanged greetings, Delta brought his 2.0 (Epsilon)… Shrink Wrap “you are named after the salt?” “Umm, that’s Epsom”  “Ha, the Greek letter… you know Delta and Epsilon”.  After an abbreviated (and odd) disclaimer, due to cold temp we were off…

Mosey to Pei Wei parking lot for some warm-up, nearly run over by a car going way too fast in the parking lot (as Fire Hazard pointed out – I chose the only parking lot with cars):
10 side straddle hops
10 imperial walkers

10 merkins in cadence

Mosey up Ballantyne Commons to Brighthouse Financial building, 1 pitstop for some Mary (LBCs in cadence for 10 count). Recover, mosey on… after a couple groans it became apparent where we were headed some mumblechatter started to emerge… Fire Hazard “I liked Billygoat before he was a runner” and a PAX with good memory (Tagalong I think) said “isn’t this where you took us before”?  “Yep, but that was months ago”

Headed to the descending landings for some work – on the way down:
landing 1 – 10 step-ups & 10 merkins
landing 2 – 10 jump-ups & 10 derkins
landing 3 – 10 squats & 10 incline merkins
landing 4 – 10 burpees

Mary and wait for the 6.  On the way back up:
landing 1 – 10 step-ups & 10 merkins
landing 2 – 10 jumpups & 10 derkins (that wall was high!)

landing 3 – 10 squats & 10 incline merkins

landing 4 – 10 dips & 10 jump squats

Mosey back down Ballantyne Commons to the first parking deck on the right. A warning (from a concerned PAX) to watchout for security was given… and sure enough security drove right by us during our wall sit (don’t think he noticed though).

PAX grabbed some wall for people’s chair (10 count presses down and back the line from each PAX, quads were definitely burning despite a cheat by the Q).  up the parking deck we went – ‘all you got’ for the ramps and mosey the flats to the top.  Down the stairs and mosey back to basecamp with 1 pitstop for some Mary along the way (Freddie Mercury 10 count in cadence).

Strong effort from the group sticking in a tight pack and covering 3.25 miles.  Delta, thanks for coming back out despite Bagpipe injuring you the last time.  Epsilon with a strong performance showing us old farts what’s up.  Paper Jam ‘not a runner’ up at the front most of the way.  Fire Hazard, Mighty Mite and Shrink Wrap pushing the pace during the landings.  Tagalong with a strong effort (as usual) despite the Scattergories injury.  And Frehley’s Comet with the ability to clear out the roof of a parking deck… well done.