Bi-Lo, High Five

Bi-Lo, High Five

Men across the land woke early this morning with a primal urge to do something manly: the high five. Men in Canada woke with the urge to play hockey. For 14 PAX, Rebel Yell combined both of those urges into a big ball of workout today to celebrate National High Five Day and the 20th anniversary of Wayne Gretzky’s final NHL game.

WARM-UP

• Nancy Kerrigan x 20
• Steve Earle x 20
• Plank Jack x 20
• Peter Parker x 20

THE THANG

Mosey to the main Elm entrance to Stonecrest and partner up.

• Run down Elm toward Ballantyne Commons, stopping at each small walkway light for 5 hand clap merkins, but the hand claps need to be higher than normal to celebrate the high five.
• Continue the mosey to the (formerly) Bi-Lo parking lot for 19 merkins in cadence. Total of 99 merkins. #GreatOne

At the (formerly) Bi-Lo parking lot, the PAX split into 2 groups and one group circled the vertical pairing of islands/parking spaces while the other group did Bonnie Blairs. Just like a complete line shift, once the entire group was back, the other group ran the same area. This went on for the length of the parking lot, or 8 vertical lengths. The middlemost parking area has a double-sided double shopping cart return and PAX were encouraged to jump the cart return either OCR-style or like entering the ice from the bench.

After completing the first length of the lot, repeato but with Angry Al Gore air punches instead of Bonnie Blairs because someone asked when the fighting part of hockey would come into play.

Mosey (or haul it) back to COT.

YHC has not posted often at Rebel Yell but thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to celebrate manly things with manly PAX. Now more PAX know that YHC likes a good theme to a workout, digs deeeep into the Exicon for a change of exercises, and is a poor judge of time, as evidenced by running the workout long by 2 minutes and still only getting through half the Weinke.

The PAX were open to new exercises today and everyone agrees that starting off with Nancy Kerrigans at 5:30 AM is a little early for a test in balance. One Star must have played some serious Blades of Steel on NES or is a huge closet Cutting Edge fanboy because he has serious Bonnie Blair skills and entered the ice on the shopping cart return like he was the one who laced up the skates 1487 times in the NHL. Boitano had some strong punching moves, but no one wanted to ask if he was a goon in his pro days. And Wild Turkey beat out Happy Meal as the one who had the most fun surmounting the shopping cart return. Turkey rolled under and even took the highest route possible over the 8-foot signage railing, giving YHC a momentary fear of a Jim Cornette-Starrcade ’86 situation. Fortunately, that was not the case.

https://www.wwe.com/videos/jim-cornette-falls-from-the-scaffold-wcw-starrcade-1986

Good times at Rebel Yell and maybe YHC can finish the Weinke sometime soon.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Saturday SOB/UC convergence 4/20 at Stonehenge @ 6:30 AM. Double pre-run options available.
• Church on the Street (COTS) is available first Sunday of each month. Fantastic experience. Contact Billy Goat or Strawberry.
• Olaf welcomes anyone looking for a church to attend on Easter. Reach out to him on Slack.

Thanks for the take out, One Star.