Yanking My Hose



Yanking My Hose

4 Pax showed up at 5:10 for a 2 mile pre-run (PJ, WT, PT and Purell) to get the body warm.  Purell slowed us down otherwise we would have gotten in 3 miles.  I made a slight detour pulling in the parking lot to drop off my new toy.  Purell already knew about it, so it ruined the surprise for him.  Everyone else was biting their nails there were so excited.

The Thang:

Mosey around the parking lot, say hello “Electric Slide” (ES), and circle up in front of Whole Foods.

15xSSH

15xMerkins

15xIW

Gather at the end of a parking row, and begin.  Run to the end of each parking row and perform 15 merkins.  Continue around until you reach the end, next to ES.  Then we are off for the main event.

Mosey over to the sidewalk in front of the parking deck.  Line up and count of in 3s.  Not surprisingly, i managed to screw up something as simply as counting.  Everyone just shut up and group up in 3 Pax.  Mosey over to the bottom of the first ramp.  I rolled out my little surprise, 2 25 ft, 55lb fire hoses.  Let the fun begin.  Two groups of 3 drag the hose all the way to the top of the parking deck, while the other Pax head over to the parking lot behind the Whole Foods.  Run laps around the store with three called exercises along the way.  20 x merkins, 20 x sqauts, and 20 x LBCs.  Once the Pax brought the hoses back down the deck, flapjack.  After the first round, everyone go again.

Mosey back to the cars.  Circle up for some Mary.

25xLBCs

10xCan Opener

25x Flutter

 

Moleskin:  I posted at Sparta for the first time yesterday and during the workout Gypsy shared with me he had an extra fire hose.  I heard how terrible previous workouts had been with them, so I was more than happy to take it off his hands.  I dragged it out on the driveway last night with my 9 year old, found the middle, and cut away. I tried metal cutters, pruners, tree saw, and ended up doing most of the work with a regular wood saw.  Roll her back up, and throw her in the back of the truck.  Purell ruined the surprise because he already knew what I had.  He got a hose from Gypsy too.  Be cautious posting at a workout led by Witch Doctor, Purell, PopTart and Rachel.  We all now have a 110 lbs of fire hose.  I heard Gypsy had 9 total, so there are more floating around.  As I pulled in the parking lot this morning I drove by a guy outside his van with cones blocking off part of the lot.  At first I thought he was out there to wash cars at 5:30 in the morning with freezing temperatures.  Not the best time to be washing cars, but we all debated dropping our cars off for a wash during the workout.  Come to find out it was “Electric Slide” running a Not Free workout called Camp Gladiator.  We all ran by just to tease him and show his patrons what a Free workout looks like, compared to a Not Free workout.  We all agreed ours is most cost effective.  (Am I suppose to include him on the backblast?  Can he actually get sued since he is a professional?  Can we sue him since he was in the same parking lot and is a professional?  I wonder if he also washed cars?)  He did have a nice play list so we didn’t mind running by his group a few times.  Das Boot suggested we line up and show them our Monkey Humpers, which was a nice thought.  I just wasn’t going to be the first one to do it.

I wasn’t sure how the hoses would work out.  They sucked a lot more than I thought.  The first round wasn’t too bad, but as Busch and Bananas so eloquently stated, “It sucked more the second time”.  I hope everyone felt the workout was successful.  Eveeryone seemed to push themselves hard today, and always a pleasure to lead and see everyone getting stronger.  Thanks for the take out Busch.

 

Announcements: Fredo on Q at Divinci tomorrow.  Man Cave every Friday after the workous.  Panera at Arbo.  No pre-work required.

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Fredo
6 years ago

Only been around F3 for a little over a year…rarely am I surprised any more when I show up to a workout. But this was a cool twist and really did suck the 2nd time. I made two ramps first round – barely got to the top of a single ramp second time. Nice Q.

Bananas
6 years ago

Lots of hose jokes in our group, managed to keep it from going too far over the line because we were trying to breath. Fire hose runs and a parking deck are a tough mix. Good job Pop-tart. It did suck the second time.

Bananas
Reply to  Bananas
6 years ago

Breathe

Gypsy
6 years ago

A few may have been shared with UC and Mint Hill as well.. plus I still have a full one too.. in all, 8 pax at different AOs might surprise you with a firehose given to us courtesy of the Unionville Fire Department.

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