A backup band slaps floors at the Murderhorn

A backup band slaps floors at the Murderhorn

Yesterday, I got the text. You know the one. THE text. Can you substi-Q? OK, maybe I made that a little more dramatic than it needed to be. Anyway, I was on high gravity #2 at Lore for a post-Arsenal HH with One Niner, Cobbler, and General when I received that text asking if I could take the Q because Tag-A-Long had to tag-a-out. I quickly replied, “Yes.” Then I replied, “Who is this?” Just kidding. It’s usually me texting Taco Stand because I need help with a convergence Q, or I have really hard questions about a mortgage, or I just need someone to talk with when I can’t sleep after eating too much ice cream. So, I polished off my beer and maybe another few and headed home to plan another Brave beatdown.

Pulling into The Gibson the next morning there was a lone Wild Turkey. He yelled some unnecessary profanities at YHC that I highly enjoyed. We were getting ready to run off into the sunrise holding hands, of course socially distant holding hands to please Lord Cooper, when Jazz Hands and Soft Pretzel rolled in to ruin our fun. Some required jokes about 3 guys in red shirts and one in black not getting the memo were delivered. Some better ones about looking like a lead singer with a backup band followed. Soft Pretzel showed us later that black shirts are better than red by making us eat his dust for the entirety of the workout.

YHC delivered a pretty solid disclaimer (definitely getting better at those) and we skipped the stretching YHC had planned because it was cold, and the wind was brisk.

WARMUP

A run to the entrance of launch – approximately .04 miles

THE THING

1. Ladder down Bobby Hurleys at each intersection from launch down BC to Elm to the top of the Murderhorn.
2. Run down the Murderhorn, 10 burpees OYO at the bottom.
3. Start jogging up the Murderhorn, slowly accelerating until you’re at a full sprint at the top, 25 LBCs OYO at the top.
4. Continue on Elmstone in to Stonecrest, but only to the other AO’s parking by the theater.
5. 7’s on the parking lot’s berm – merkins at the bottom, squats at the top.
6. At this point we were just short of being halfway through time. YHC had planned to reverse the first half for the second half but had not anticipated having extra time. So, in reward of how fast the PAX were, YHC made the executive decision to run another set of 7’s on the same hill – this time with shoulder taps and lunges.
7. Back to the top of the Murderhorn to redo our run down, this time with 10 jump squats OYO at the bottom.
8. Accelerate up the Murderhorn to another 25 LBCs.
9. Ladder down back to launch, the same way we came, but this time with plank jacks.
10. With about 5 minutes remaining at launch, YHC stole from yesterday’s Arsenal Q and did a sorta Jack Webb of 4x bear crawls, 1x merkin, 1x shoulder tap, 4x plank jacks. Glad Softie was at both beatdowns to help me remember it. We made it to 16x and 4x.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Thursday SOB sites are closed next week for Christmas Eve, converging at Rea Farms for a Taco Stand Q. Told you I leaned on him for lots of stuff! Park at the Improper Pig, 0630 start, 1 hour workout.
• Stonehenge and Da Vinci are doing some converging over the next couple of weeks too. I don’t remember the details but will update here when I hear back from Soft Pretzel. Or you can check the schedules. Probably best to check the schedules and Slack over the next couple of weeks to make sure you’re not pulling up to empty lots.
  • UPDATE:
    • Stonehenge will converge at DaVinci 12/26 with Taco Stand on Q. Man, that dude is a Q machine.
    • Stonehenge and DaVinci will converge at Rock Zero 1/2.
    • Shameless plug: YHC on Q at DaVinci the following week – 1/9, so come get some.
• YHC took us out.

MOLESKIN

• Another enjoyable Q at The Brave. It’s a really fun Q to take. Maybe I’m crazy but I feel like the 4-mile requirement makes it easier to come up with a good plan.
• There was an underappreciated moment at the start, of a dog walker not really knowing what to make of the lead singer in black and his backup band in red slapping the ground and jumping in the air at 5:30 in the morning. He moved off the sidewalk and awkwardly waited for us to pass before continuing his way. I can only imagine him going home to explain it to his M.
• I wasn’t kidding when I said Soft Pretzel can’t be slowed down. The rest of us were able to mostly keep up with him for the first half, but he had to circle back for the us pretty far laddering back to launch. Wild Turkey was probably closest to keeping up with him, but I think that was a stretch too.
• Wild Turkey dropping that Murderhorn is a reference from Simpsons on us blew my mind. Later Mighty Mite dropped this link on Slack – https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Murderhorn, and I sadly only just realized that Murderhorn was a play on Matterhorn.
• Jazz Hands texted me last night that he had broken into some Greek moonshine, or Raki, that we got our hands on last week (don’t ask, long story) and I fully expected him to not make it out but was pleasantly surprised.
• While typing this up, I learned that Tag-A-Long was out of commission for some positive Covid testing in his household. Hate to hear that man. Hoping it passes quickly with minimal symptoms.
• The Lord Cooper bit is just a joke, and a sub-par one at that. I know we all have different views on this pandemic, and I understand the need to slow the spread. Please everyone, be safe out there.

‘Til next time!

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