Moving Heavy Things

Moving Heavy Things

Thursday evening at the Goonie household:

M: Are you working out tomorrow
YHC: Yeah. I’m leading the workout at Catholic
M: What are you going to do
YHC: (proudly) We’re going to push weight plates and carry pavers up a parking deck
M: (with a look of disgust) You’re an idiot. You’re going to hurt yourself (again)

Probably. Here’s the idiocy that ensued when 14 pax showed up to Charlotte Catholic this morning for this week’s episode of Centurion:

After a quick pre-run with Purell (YHC ran about as fast as I can, Purell didn’t even break a sweat), the pax were disclaimed and we headed out of the launch lot to Little Ave. Left on Little, left on Walsh for a little warm-up run, left into CC and up the Tartarus stairway closest to Walsh. At the top, the calls for Imperial Walkers were promptly ignored and we were going to warm up with the Death Crawl:

Partner up. P1 begins to bear crawl while P2 runs to the end of the deck, turns around to meet P1. Flapjack. Continue doing this until you reach the far wall. Mosey down the ramps to the bottom floor, where 6 pavers and 4 plates greeted the pax.

Keep your same partner, form 2 teams of 4, 1 team of 6 (YHC was expecting more than 14 to show up).

1st set of partners pushes the plate up the ramps. Push the plate on the inclines, carry the plate on the flats. Trade off with your partner when you tire.

2nd set of partners does a CMIYC with a brick paver. P1 starts running with the paver. P2 does 5 merkins and sprints to catch up to P1. 2 pax, 1 paver. Do this twice, meet the first pair at the top of the deck.

3rd set of partners does one lap around the football stadium and meets their team at the top. At the top, do team burpees (teams of 4 do 20 burpees, team of 6 does 30 burpees). The first pax up to the top have the option to start knocking out the burpees as they see fit.

Once done with the round, the partners who pushed the plate go to CMIYC. CMIYC partners run around the stadium. Partners who ran around the stadium go to hairburners. We got through 4 rounds before we grabbed all the coupons and headed back to launch. To appease Purple Haze and others, we did 2 Imperial Walkers in cadence and called it a morning.

Moleskine

Great job this morning by everyone. The Weinke might have been a bit aggressive with the complication, but I figured the Centurion pax could handle it (no way those guys at the Brave would have processed everything). The goal was to keep everyone moving for the entire 45 minutes, and YHC believes that goal was accomplished. According to Strava, most pax got in about 2.5 tough miles.

Glad to see Purple Haze and Mermaid shun Planet Fitness for the morning and post. They’re probably trying to avoid something like this: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/naked-man-arrested-at-planet-fitness-said-he-thought-it-was-a-judgement-free-zone-police-say/

Margo was my partner this morning. He was faster carrying a brick paver than YHC is without one. Awesome job this morning, Margo. Thanks for the push.

We partnered with Brilleaux and Thunder Road, who were knocking the rounds out like champs. They had the “honor” of doing two rounds of hairburners, and were still knocking out the partner burpees before YHC and Margo could catch them. Way to kill it, guys.

Ickey and Haze were doing whatever the hell they wanted. #modifyasneeded

Multiple people commented that they felt sorry for Shrinkwrap, having to partner with Purell. Observation showed that the timing on the different circuits was fine for everyone but the Flash Purell. YHC did notice Purell “checking in” on Shrinkwrap toward the end of the workout to make sure he was still breathing.

YHC swallowed a fly on the trip around the stadium and gagged.

This workout sucked, yet everyone was putting their work in like champs. Sound off with any additional observations below. YHC hopes you all got your money’s worth.

Thanks to Margo and Udder (does he ever even post at Centurion?) for the opportunity to inflict pain this morning. It was my pleasure.

SYITG

Announcements:

Haywoodstock at 24 hours of Booty. Supposed to be a great time. Ran into Lorax at Panera about an hour ago and he’ll be riding, along with some other pax.

Crane Relays on October 26th. Sign up by end of August. Ickey can’t wait for this one.