7 pax put on some cold weather gear for a Saturday morning Commitment workout with temps around 26. Even Recalc had sleeves on this morning. As we are gathering in the parking lot a few minutes before 6:30, Popeye says “your first boot camp Q in quite some time”. True from a ‘formal aspect’ although I say it doesn’t really feel like it since I have probably Q’d a gazillion mash workouts since last May. Difference is I’m usually late half asleep as the Q goes through the DICCS and then we break-off for mash so a lot less responsibility. This time, everyone is waiting on me to get the party rolling.
6:30 is here, lets get the Thang started–
DICCS are a little rusty but we make it through and onto a little mosey around the parking lot a quick three laps, last one running backwards and we stay with Mashers for the warmup.
Break off from mashers, tell em we’ll be back and head over to nesbit driveway near circle.
Mosey to parking lot by basketball hoops
Mosey out of parking lot towards kensington road and head back into first Millbridge entrance and back to parking lot to join the mashers with the cinder blocks
Mosey over to circle
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So my first ‘formal’ Q in probably a year and I was able to get through with only one major glitch that I am aware of. I forgot Name-o-rama, so we did that after the COT prayer. It was good to be Qing a workout where the scenery changed a bit and had some more variety to chose from. I’ve been pretty much only doing mash workouts for 8 months, and there are only so many ways to lift a cinder block and brick I have been itching to get some more running in now that my knee can handle it and get more cardio mixed into my routine. Mash has been an awesome workout while I healed from surgery and I also got to know a handful of pax well. Since we don’t move around much and stare at the same people for 45 minutes, we have a ton of good banter and chats while we are doing reps. Even as some of us injured folks heal up and start mixing back in with other boot camps, I know Mash is in good hands. Many others have stepped up and and are leading the workouts plus there are always pax coming to the IR (some for second and third ir stints!) so its very much needed as well. And even when I get back to 100%, the mashers can’t get rid of me forever.
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