15 men decided not to coast into the weekend and post at the Best Friday AO in Charlotte. The pressure was on to set the bar high given the site and the fact that Mermaid has the Q next Friday. The “easy” solution was to grab coupons from our favorite hiding place and find a partner. One partner selects a sand filled jug and the other grabs two pavers.
The Thang:
With coupons and partner, mosey over to parking deck for quick warm up. IW X10, Cotton Pickers X10, Slow Squats X10, Mountain climbers X10
With partner, run the short ramps stopping at each turn for ascending partner hand slap merkins. 2 at first turn, 4 at second, all the way up 12 at top deck before heading back down the stairs to the starting point.
With coupons, mosey off campus via Chipotle cut thru and run down to greenway entrance. Partners do 25 combined pull ups (50 if you performed Australian style). Partners switch between pull ups and squats until the 25/50 pull ups are completed. Run back to parking deck (about 1/2 mile each way).
Start at bottom of stairs and perform 2 partner decline merkins (each). Run to level 4 and perform 4 pdm (each). Run down to top of middle stairs and perform 6 pdm (each). Run down the stairs and perform 8 pdm (each). Run to far end stairs (well one team followed the direction) and perform 10 pdm (each). Run up the stairs to level 4 and perform 12 pdm (each). Meet in the middle and perform 14 pdm 9 (each). Squat waiting on the six.
Start at top in middle with 4 flutters (8 total movements) and then run down the short ramps, stopping at each turn for increasing flutters (8, 12, 16, 20, 24).
Drop off coupons and head back up the short ramps for a burpee ladder, performing burpees at each turn (1 to 6). People chair for a few minutes waiting on the six.
Head down the stairs and pick up coupons before returning to parking lot. Finish with some plank work and exercises from Orange Theory (Hops wants royalties on the modified Cumberland Cty viaducts).
Naked Moleskin
Nice to see a few new faces sprinkled in with mostly familiar faces (most of the familiar faces are pretty darn ugly). Zuckerburg back from long hiatus so maybe not the best one to make your comeback at but you survived. In sync also looked like he got his money’s worth with the coupons.
Runstopper conveniently only grabbed one paver and didn’t have to do any partner work since he was last (and late) and the odd man out. He was way ahead of the PAX so one paver much weigh down a man more than I thought. I was comforted to realize at end that he didn’t try to break the one in half and reduce is load even further.
Purple Haze hates pavers and that’s why I love bringing them out. Plus, it slows down the young fast guys and gives me a slight chance to keep up. The complaining was relatively light so I may have to replace the hand held pavers with something larger.
The pull ups don’t really work with a PAX larger than 8 so we had to modify and throw in Australian style to maximize use of all the “equipment” at the Greenway.
I’m guessing we got close to 3 miles but someone can verify via comments.
Announcements:
Joe Davis Run sign up starting soon. Race moved to March (I think) to see if they can get better weather. Last several years have been either really cold or wet.
Please pray for Hannibal’s M, who has skin cancer that has to be eradicated. Hannibal is confident they will beat it but it’s still upsetting.
As always, an honor and a privilege to lead this group.
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