Scenic hills of Pellyn Wood

Scenic hills of Pellyn Wood

21 men ventured beyond RTS for a morning mosey through the scenic hills of Pellyn Wood.

The Thang:

Mosey to RTS basketball courts for COP

SSH x 30
Merkin x 20?
IW x 20
Wide arm x 10
Squat x 20
LBC x 30
Diamond x 10

Run across Sharon View to Hardison, entering into Pellyn Wood.  Left on Gorham Dr.  Up and down the hills, stopping at newly named Walden pond for:

Dips x 20

Continue up and down the hills to Le Maison, which Agony explained meant “The Mansion”, stopping for:

Flutters x 50 (nice round number)

Back up the hill, back down, stopping at Walden pond again.  Decline plank while waiting for the six and then:

Derkins x 20

Run back up the hill, left up the hill that is Howland Ln.  Plank for the six.

7’s on Howland Ln. hill

Burpees at the bottom (start with 7, down to 1)
Turkish get ups at the top (start with 1, up to 6)

Backwards run to the top of Howland Hill for Jumping Lunges (x 10 each leg)

Run back to Carmel Park

SMM:

Lots of chatter about the amount of running, and the hills.  Those hills were no joke with lots of elevation change.  Not as steep as Muthaship, but we got in over 200 feet of elevation change.  Check it out here:

http://www.strava.com/activities/154196052?ref=1MT1yaWRlX3NoYXJlOzI9ZW1haWw7ND01MTA4Mjc4

Unbeknownst to me, there was some “equipment” next to us at COP.  I’m not sure who’s using it (Governator boys may want to watch out), but it looked like some old tires and other items were there.  This is a side effect of F3 – you never view playgrounds the same.

Pellyn Wood is nice.  Thanks to Snoop (I do appreciate you coming south today, brother!), we may not be invited back.  Guard dogs at one house were roaming, and Snoop couldn’t resist giving them a call.  I was just glad there was a fence, or we may have lost someone.  You don’t have to outrun the bear (dog), just the guy next to you.

Which brings me to another point, big t-claps to our 2.0s today:  Sledge and Bieber.  I’ve been to easier workouts than this, probably led some easier than this one, and these two crushed it!

Also, a big welcome (finally) to FNG Tardy – product of an 18 month EH process from Gangsta Mouse and others from Governor’s Square.

The pond this morning was pretty awesome.  It’s not often that we workout surrounded by such serenity.  I tried to lower the cadence to a whisper to leave it undisturbed.  It was either Agony or Film Fest that named it Walden Pond, so in honor of the name:

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.