11 men gathered in a school parking lot this morning at the only AO I can think of where we never go off campus. I remember The Shore taking us through the trails in the back once, but that only works in the summer when it’s light. The hills of Horsey are too far away. And the campus is big and diverse. Anyway, here’s what transpired…
Yog down to the track. The temp dropped several noticeable degrees on the way into the valley. Interesting. Chin Music called for an early adjournment when he saw the glistening ice on the track, but we prevailed. Too bad Yeti wasn’t there to turn on the heater for the track and field. Line up abreast for a little back and forth warm up across the field.
Continue the warmup jog around the track, then up Grandmother Mountain to the sidewalk. The recent building expansion included a fence that makes it less fun to get up to the Blue Door, but we figured it out. Partner 1 runs up the sidewalk to the Blue Door while partner B does an exercise. Repeated with both partners doing HR Merkins, Jump Squats and Heels to Heaven. Next, over to the bleachers for more of the same (dips, derkins while a partner ran some stairs).
Assemble next to the playground in plank position (abreast). One PAX does AMRAP pullups (3 for me), then gets back in plank. Next guy up, so on and so forth. Dollywood left after this, at 5:50. I’m impressed that he got up to go to a workout for 20 mins.
Down to the track for the main event. AYG 400, then turn around and recover jog the full 400 again, stopping at each corner for 5/10/15 of an exercise. We did three AYG 400s – exercises were HR Merkins, Jump Squats and Heels to Heaven.
Line up abreast on the goal line in two groups. Group 1 sprints to the 30 yard line and back. Group 2 starts when the last of group 1 crosses the goal line. Continue for 4 turns to the 30, 3 turns to the 50, 1 (cut from 2 to save time) to the other 30 and 1 to the far goal line. Guys always think that sounds easy when I explain it. It’s a real gasser though. The rests are not long enough.
Back up to the start with the usual (back in the days when we hand-signed a waiver before the workout) jailbreak up the parking lot. Done.
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15 PAX for this week’s episode of Centurion.
“The Patriot Way” isn’t a new philosophy. With 16 consecutive winning seasons and less than 48 hours between the franchise and a 5th Super Bowl victory, it has come to define everything about the New England Patriots’ excellence in the 21st century. Many of these same ideologies and successes hold true for the Centurion franchise…. excellence, perseverance, and cheating scandals. Swiper was auditing reps left and right but its hard when youre out front the whole time!
The usual suspects committed to attending the workout and then didnt – Chelms and Udder… and a few of the usual suspects who did attend were crushing the workout and led the whole time… Lorax, Mermaid, Brilleux, and Swiper.
#Disclaimer
No FNGs. No suing. No modifying for comfort.
#WarmUp
Run a lap around Wells Fargo and back to the newly constructed fence around the picnic tables. No circle up… butt kicks, high knees, lateral shuffles, backwards run… and plank at the bottom of the deck.
Last part of the warm-up is the run the short ramps all the way to the top and plank.
#TheThang
Station #1: Top of Parking Deck
Line up against the far wall with 22 parking lines ahead. 1 Centurion Burpee at each line (aka flying squirrel) – run down middle stairs and plank.
Station #2: Bottom of the Deck
Stair Suicide Run with 15 BH’s at the bottom each time
Station #3: Grinder x 5 sets
Station #4: Bear Crawl/Lunge Walk/Bear Crawl
We got in our 1-minute of Elbow Plank for the Swole Challenge that started this morning – then ran out of time so only one section of Lunge Walk completed.
Overall, we logged 2+ miles but my watch got paused early on so mileage isnt accurate.
#CountORama / #NameORama
15 PAX & zero FNG
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