Not that cold

Not that cold

11 men posted to Anvil in below 20 degree weather (19 per my car) but several wore shorts so not that cold.   I guess it was the high humidity (or is it low humidity).   Or is it due to the fact that Mermaid and one other (Purell?) are too cheap to buy long workout pants?

The Thang:

Mosey to middle of parking lot for warm up – 5 burpees, 16 lunges, 10 burpees, 16 IW’s, 15 burpees

Mosey to area next to the church for the Starfish.    Run to three corners of the campus (including up North Face) and do called excercise at each corner – merkins, burpees, dips.  5 civilian count first round and 10 second round with 5 merkins every time back to the center of the Star Fish (not really a Star Fish since we only had 3 legs).   Rabbits Rachel, Purell, and one other (Lorax or Brilleuax I think) did some core work waiting on the six.

Mosey over to the play ground for 25 pulls ups, 50 merkins, and 100 squats

Mosey over to parking lot for a little partner work and sprints.   Wheel barrow, Firemen carries, backward run, broad jumps, karaoke, and bear crawl.

Mosey back to start and do burpees till we hit 6:15.

Naked Moleskin:

A bit nipply out but not too bad (5 layers of clothing helps).  Not sure what the two wearing shorts thought although they were probably thinking about adding long pants to their Christmas wish list (9 days late).   The one benefit was no pavers as I didn’t feel like carrying a frozen brick around for 45 minutes even if it would have built character.

Magee came down with something nasty (happens a lot with young’ns in the house) and I was the only one man enough (or is that dumb enough) to volunteer to take his place on a chilly morning.   Glad I did as it forced me to get out of bed and do what needed to be done.  Along with Replica, I committed to no alcohol in January, mainly to see if I can get in better shape – the old body doesn’t metabolize alcohol like it once did.  Also going to watch what I eat so watch out Rachel (I mean Hops) – I’m gunning for you.

Great crew this morning although not as boisterous as normal – trying to keep the cold air out of the lungs I guess.  I also encourage all of us to think about how to help Area 51 continue to grow.   It’s easy to get complacent and in a routine so we should remember to encourage other men to join us and to grow the 2nd and 3rd F in addition to the first.

Announcements:

Please continue to pray for Jennings Palmer and the entire Palmer family.   They will learn long term prognosis soon so they are very pensive right now.  Pray that they can take him home Friday or Monday.    Also, you can sign up to pray for them via http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0b4ca4a72cabfa7-pray or just pray when you can.   Also, we encourage men to get them a gift card (Harris Teeter, Target, Wal Mart) if able to help them with expenses.   Mermaid will be coordinating the efforts.

Joe Davis run this Saturday so join us if you can.  Always a great turn out and lots of fun.