Freezing on the Hump

Freezing on the Hump

13 PAX busted the freezing mark by running themselves warm around the Hump at Dromedary on a Wednesday morning.

The THANG:

• Disclaimer
• Mosey to the front of the HS
• Opening COP:
  • Side Straddle Hop x 20,
  • Imperial Walkers x 20
  • Don Quixote x 20
  • Slow Mountain Climbers x 20  (focus on bringing knee all the way to elbow in a slow cadence)
  • Low Slow Squats x 20 (down for 3, up for 1)
  • Low Slow Merkins x 20 (down for 3, up for 1)
• Mosey to the front of the Middle School.  Along the way, do some High knees, Butt kicks, Side shuffle, Carioca, and count off into groups of three.
• Divide into the three groups.  1s and 3s stay here, 2s cut across oval to the other side.  1s will run first around the loop to reach the 2s that are halfway around the loop, 2s will do exercise once 1s start their run, 3s will rest.  When 1s arrive at 2s, the 2s start running around the loop towards the 3s, 3s start the exercise, 1s rest.  Each time your group is to do an exercise, change the exercise.  Exercises were BLIMPS (Burpees, Lunges, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Plank Jack, Squats).  The idea is run All You Got (AYG), rest for a few moments, perform an exercise, and then run.  If you run slower, you’ll have less time to rest because the timer basically starts once the first runner arrives.
• Rinse and Repeat, but this time with Jump ups on the Benches and Hand Release Merkins on the opposite side.  We got in 3 more full rounds.
• Mosey back to the “top” of the HS parking lot and plank for the six.  Jailbreak back to the starting point, plank for the six, and circle up for about 10 minutes of Mary.
• 10MOM consisted of rotating through:
  • Plank position and hold form for a 10 count by a PAX.  Positions were Left Hand High / Left Leg High, RHH/RLH, Left Hand Forward / Right Ankle Up, RHF/LAU, Elbows, etc.
  • On your six for a 20 count In Cadence of various exercises including Heels to Heaven, Dolly, Box Cutters, LBCs, 6 inches
• Time
• COT w/ Johnny Utah taking us out

The Moleskin:

• Not sure how may hoodies that Transporter had on.  Only one PAX was bare legged this morning – maybe because he knew we would be moving most of the time.  The final Mary circle definitely had a nice ring of steam rising from the PAX.
• It took a minute or so to explain the 3 group rotation, and all groups seemed to get it eventually, but YHC still couldn’t figure out how BLIMPS could get translated into Carolina Dry Docks…  Some PAX pushed hard on the AYG runs – Easy Button was definitely on turbo for many of them.  And several PAX took it upon themselves to begin the exercise right away instead of resting.  Well done…or perhaps you weren’t running hard enough…
• On the final Jailbreak, FNG Chunky Monkey (Eric J) showed off his Softball outfielder skills and battled Transporter for the lead.
• Counting skills were shown off by Endo starting at 1 and having a looong pause on accident (unaware that he needed to keep going to 10, perhaps delirious or just a new guy), Doc McStuffins counting VERY slowly in Spanish (but he didn’t seem to know if he got to 10?), and One Star counting “1” the whole time while double counting on his fingers to make sure he actually got to 10.

Announcements:

• Bring donations of clothes and toys for the Christmas Party.  Check the Slack announcements or Preblast for more details.
• Dromedary needs a Q next week to lead the WAMRAP.
• JRR Tolkien on Q at Cerberus this week – Viva Chicken at Waverly at 5:30.
• Welcome to FNG Eric J (Chunky Monkey) – a Vermont native and Army vet. All he needs is a plaid flannel shirt to be a Paul Bunyan look-a-like, he was HC’d by Johnny Utah.