Oh Hi, It’s Abe Froman Again Visiting The Arsenal

Oh Hi, It’s Abe Froman Again Visiting The Arsenal

YHC headed south to Q at the Arsenal, the premier Thursday morning bootcamp in Indian Land.  YHC arrived a little early to do some scouting of the AO and passed Atlas and Brexit pre-running.  I rolled down the window and yelled some form of encouragement to which Atlas and Brexit completely ignored YHC.  Apparently they get catcalled on a regular basis during their pre-runs so it was nothing out of the ordinary for them.  At 5:28 General rolled in to make 4.  5:30 on the clock so YHC began his disclaimer but what’s this?  Cobbler rolling in on 2 wheels to make it 5 Pax.  Disclaimer completed and we were off.

The Thing:

Mosey around the school to the playground area for a standard warmup.  Then partner up.  P1 runs to the monkey bars for 10 pull ups while P2 does an ab exercise and flapjack.  3 rounds of this with 10 pull ups each time and ab exercises consisting of flutter, J-Lo and box cutters.

Then we were off to run some hills.  I know there are several hills at the AO so I asked Brexit which would be the best.  This may have been a mistake as the hill that Brexit took us to was b-r-u-t-a-l.  At this hill YHC called a triple nickel of 5 burpees at the bottom, 5 Carolina dry docks at the top for 5 rounds.  The hill has a false top to it.  The first level is fairly steep and when you think you at the top where it flattens out, you realize there is a 2nd level that is steeper than the first level.  This was tough.

Once all had finished this suckfest we headed to the high school parking lot.  Partnering back up P1 bear crawls towards the end of the parking lot with a merkin at each parking spot.  P2 runs to the end of the parking lot for 5 wide arm merkins then runs and flapjacks with their partner, picking up where they left off.  Keep this going until the guy bear crawling reaches the end of the parking lot.

Head back to launch with about 8 minutes left.  First up is a 5 man round of Abe Froman (see Bagpipe backblast from 4/13/21 for an explanation of the Abe Froman).  The 5 man goes faster than the 11 man version and leads to more merkins and less planking.  General made quick work of the rest of us and took the title belt on this morning.  We finished up the morning with each guy taking turns calling a Mary exercise.

Moleskin:

As always it was an enjoyable time down South.  If you have not made it out to The Arsenal I suggest going at least once.  It is a fun AO and good to change things up some.  The hill was an unpleasant pleasant surprise and will remain in the Q bag for YHC.  YHC was unoriginal pulling the Abe Froman out twice this week but it is such a good finishing challenge to burn everyone out and who doesn’t love a competition.  Good mumblechatter throughout and great to catch up with some guys that I don’t get to see on a regular basis.