Cinco de Mayo y Cincuenta cumpleaños

Cinco de Mayo y Cincuenta cumpleaños

Nine men joined cul-de-sac on Cinco de Mayo to test my leadership skills for my 50th birthday.

The Thang

For warmup…

15 windmills

15 cherry pickers

15 hill-billies

After a light stroll to the other end of the parking lot, we lined up to loosen up some more:

carioca — down and back

high knees — down and back

but kicks — down and back

shoulder shredder line with a hand-slap merkin

Mossie down to the next parking lot, but called a slalom audible because of random cones set up for the PGA shuttle parking lot.  Took a slight turn to complete 15 wall climbs.

The PAX moved on to Ben Nevis hill where C-SAC laid down a challenge to place no worse than 5th.  I was easily beat to the top by Cheddar, Doc, Nard-Dog, and Mic Check.  I was lucky that MT did not challenge, as I was out of gas.

We rejoined the rest of the Pax half-way down the hill and moved to the guardrail for a 1:5 ladder of Jack Webb, 25 dips and 15 one-leg squats (each leg).  From their, we worked down the sidewalk with a merkin progression at each lamp-post.

On to the (dried up) fountain for some more dips and incline merkins.  We continued to the parking deck for mule kicks and rounds of Mary.

We ended on the south-west corner of the stone hedge for bear-crawls and step-ups.  Mic Check helped out with some additional exercises, and MT called for a slalom race through the trees.

Back to home.

Moleskin

During the Ball of Man, C-sac thanked our heavenly father and the founders for the good brought into our lives through F3.  Being a day of celebration, we raised a round of Tequilla shots/beer chasers for Cinco de Mayo and my luck to live 50 years.  I am grateful for the renewed physical strength, new friends and sense of purpose and community.

Thank you for the birthday wishes.

Announcements

Sorry, I forgot them, the Tequilla had already gone to my head.