Do what with the Sandbags

Do what with the Sandbags

The Thang…

Two fine men posted for a double pre-run the first of which was in the rain and on a flat course. Two more showed up for the single pre-run and one man who forgot to set his alarm was waiting on them for the Boot Camp.

The clock hit 5:30 and we were off.

We headed back to the Basketball court for some COP exercises were all done IC:

10 LSS

10 Merkins

10 Windmills

10 6 count Burpees

Next we moseyed over to the playground with the “track” around it. It was flooded so over to the covered benches. 10 6 count burpees and off we go as it was ankle breaking slippery.

Dodge the deepest puddles over to the pull -up and dip Bars.

1st round – 10 Squats, 5 dips, 2 pullups

2nd round – 20 Squats, 10 dips, 4 pullups

3rd round – 10 Squats, 5 dips, 2 pullups

Next over to the Big Boy dip bars:

3 rounds of 10 dips and 5 pullups

Next head toward the covered walkway.

Split into a 2 man and 3 man group. One team does merkins while the other does a long suicide set. then Flapjack.

Then we headed over to the Gym doors for a little peoples chair with alternating legs up.

Then one last sprint all the way down the covered walkway with some flutter to recover.

Head back over to YHC’s pick-em-up Truck to grab some sandbags. There were some 50’s, a 40 and a 60.

Pick the one you want and head to the walls.

First the sandbag goes over the wall and then the Pax follow behind. Repeat for all 11 walls.

Do some more burpees and head back to the launch.

Just enough time was left for a few rounds of curls and bent over rows.

Mole Skin…

It was a hard day to get up for the early rainy pre-prerun, but I knew if I didn’t show up either Erector at General would have to run it alone. So I did what all of us do. I got my lazy ass out of the fartsack so that I didn’t let another man down. Fortunately, Erector did the exact same thing.  YHC did convince Erector that we should go with the flat route so that I could investigate how wet is was in all of our normal hangouts. It was ridiculously wet on the hill, fields and parking lots. Luckily YHC had some contingency plans in mind. We circled back around at 5:00 for the pre-run pax. Chedda and Ringer were waiting there for us. So we headed off for the Hilly normal prerun route. For the record NO ONE told Ched that we were interested in the Smoky Mountain relay. Luckily Ringer had his 3 belt mounted lights so that he could lead Chedda, as he did not bring his headlamp.

We made it back to the Launch where Soft Pretzel was waiting for us yelling into the dark about an alarm that was not set correctly and he had already counted for those miles in his training plan.

It was great to have Chedda out today. I believe that this was his first post at The Arsenal. If not it was at least his first pre-run there. Everyone pushed hard today and there was great 2nd F.

Thanks men for giving me a chance to lead.