Thankful

Thankful

We had two Pax at Blackhawk today.  Not 2 plus me, but 2 total.   Low numbers due to all the third F things going on in Waxhaw today?  Low because two site Q’s are out?  Low because Blackhawk pax have failed to EH new Walnut Creek FNG’s?  Or I could go real dark, turn it internally and say it was low because it was I that was on Q.  None the less, I am thankful for Atlas showing up.  For if not for him, it would have been a one man workout.  Original winkie crossed out as a workout planned for 8-12 doesn’t work as well when its just 2.

WARM UP

Mosey around the parking lot for a lap and end up at the small circle near the fields.

I had hoped to try a new variation on stretching where we combine stretching with a merkin circle to keep the stretching somewhat active and heart rates up.   Calf stretch then 1 merkin when its your turn up to 100.    20 Merkins.

Continue the circle theme with Jimmy Duggans and dry docks when its your turn.   20 Dry Docks

Jimmy Duggan

Calf Stretch

THE THANG

Mosey past the pond to the other circle for another circle with mountain climbers and merkins when its your turn.  20 Mountain Climbers followed by 20 Slow Peter Parkers.

Using intersecting roads as our stopping points, we do 5 Gas Pumpers, 10 Merkins, and 15 Speed Skaters down Pennington drive.  7 stops in total.

Intended to continue that back but felt like we needed a change of pace (needed to run more and stop less).   Going back up Alston Dr. we stop at each intersection for 20 15 make that 10 squats.  Also stop at each Christmas decoration for burpees.  White lights = 1 burpee.  Colored Lights = 2 burpees.  Blow up = 3 Burpees.  Thankful again most decorations were on a timer that had them already turned off.   The roughly 25 burpees we did was enough.  Another 7 stops and legs feeling tight.  Currently 1.8 miles done and about halfway into the workout.  Pacing well as I wanted to get at least 3 miles in today.

Found a bar that we could use for rows.  Partner up (Again thankful for Atlas).  P1 10 Merkins.  P2 10 Rows.   5 rounds until everyone has done 50 Merkins and 50 Rows.

Mosey around the pond.  Stop at the hill for reverse walking lunches up the hill.  Mosey some more until we found a fairly high rock wall to do step ups on.  It was there that I realized the high step wall for me was much higher for Atlas (sorry dawg).  10 one legged step ups each leg.

Mosey to Rock Pile for a Chastain Make it Stop special.  Curls until someone puts their rock down (we got close to 40 curls in) then mosey behind ball field to the paved shed area for 3 Atomic Merkins.  Back to Rocks for make it stop Tricep extensions (about 45) mosey and changed up to 5 in/outs.   Military (Army? since Popeye claims they didn’t do these in the Navy) Presses (around 40) mosey for 5 In/Outs.   Rows (Close to 50! before we stopped) Mosey to Shed for 50 LBC’s.    Got about 5 minutes.  Back to Rocks to quickly knock some reps out.   21 Curls…that wasn’t enough, lets keep curling the full curl until we break.  We broke around 25.  30 Tricep Extensions.  30 Presses (Ouch, lots of lactic acid burn on this one).  30 Rows.   Mosey back to COT for 50 more LBC’s.   Watch check…3.18 miles.  7:30.  Done.

MOLESKIN

Again, thank you to the lone other pax (Pack?) that decided to beat the Fart Sack today.  I will be meeting him and a few other dads later today for an impromtu girls softball practice so perhaps I can tell him in person because I know he won’t read this back blast.

Biting my tongue fingers to avoid the soapbox blast about poor attendance and lack of Indian Land/Walnut Creek EH’ing.  Again, maybe its me, not them.

Hating that I can’t participate in the third F things today.   My folks are going to be here any minute for a late, driveway covid free birthday celebration for my daughter.  I was looking forward to clearing some trails for my own AO’s use today.  Thank you to the guys that are showing up to do that today.

Today is Army vs Navy.  It usually is the only game on this time of the year but do to Covid, several games will also be played today.  I always enjoy watching this game.   I saw a poster that read its the only game where both teams playing are willing to die for the ones watching the game.  Thanks for all of you that have served.  I’m sure today is a special game for you with lots of trash talking.  Wish we had a few more army folks in our ranks so we could see some army/navy level trash talking in the Playhouse today.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CC Now.

5 Stones – Now