Tour Of The AO, Plus Really Bad Instructions

Tour Of The AO, Plus Really Bad Instructions

My slack notification goes off on Wednesday night, its my beardless bro Tuck saying he forgot to correctly operate a calendar and get Qs scheduled more than 2 days in advance.  I said no problem, I had an evil plan I was already concocting which I would try out on the unwitting PAX of TheBrave because its the best damn AO south of 485 as everyone knows.

The Thang:

Mosey up to the stoplight by N. Community and Ballantyne Commons then head west on ye olde commons up the hill to Ballantyne Forest Drive, circle up in the first parking deck for COP:

IW: 0 in cadence cause this is a real workout 🙂

Merkins: 10 IC

Mountain Climbers: 15 IC
Slow Merkins: 10 IC
Peter Parker: 10 IC

6 Inch Plank: Hold for 10ish

Mosey along to the 2nd parking structure and assume peoples chair.  Conduct various versions of the chair and other calisthenics including donkey kick merkins while Pax conducted a running lap around the bottom of the structure (including Thin Mint’s general wandering… something about a bruised breast.)

Mosey over to the 3rd parking deck and run upstairs, around the top and gather on the wall in chair for air presses.  Mario found it necessary to advise there were more stairs available at the next garage down, very well…

Mosey to the final garage and run the stairs to the top.  Proceed to run down the ramps with 5 burpees at every other turn all the way to the bottom.  Back up the stairs and mosey back to the launch for….

Sandbag “tug – o – war”

We divided the group into two teams approximately related to speed so we didn’t have all the “fast guys” on one team.  5 coupons were procured and cones placed on the parking lot.  The plan was to run a lap around BOTH medians (Mario can’t listen to instructions and broke the game out of the gate… well broke it more anyways) keeping the teams together.  Upon returning to the start ONE member of the team can move any coupon 4 times towards their end of the “game board.”  Each move requires a bag-over burpee and then progress to the next cone with a “win” coming when all 5 bags reach one end or the other.  While one player moves bags, the rest of his team conducts merkins (or other moves deemed necessary)  Clearly YHC did not do a good job conveying the concept because the whole thing devolved into chaos within 30 seconds of starting… But burpees happened, laps were run, bags got moved and there was plenty of good natured ribbing (although I think Madam might still be pissed…)  After about 1.5 miles worth of laps we called the silliness off for Jack Webb to 7/28 and scene.

Ye Olde Moleskin:  Today was a stretch to be sure, an idea which sounded great on paper, but was too complex for a 5:15 start time it seems.  YHC enjoyed the fun, and the mumble chatter it caused however I believe the PAX went home underworked… I’ll make up for it next time.

Paper Jam posted TheBrave for the first time because Commish promised to meet him there, which Commish did about 45 minutes into the workout… Something about a plumbing issue.  Great to see you today PJ and come again, however I warn you that “carrying heavy things” occurs often in addition to all the running.

Bunker and Frasier were very vocal about how the Crossfitters must be making fun of our free workout as we ran about the parking lot.  Its cool bro’s, you too can pay 150 a month to cause irreversible damage to your knees and back if you want!

Mario never change my friend

Thanks for letting me lead my friends, see you in the gloom again soon.

-Flipper