Let’s do 11s. What was I thinking???

Let’s do 11s. What was I thinking???

Though the grounds were a bit soggy, the rain had ended and 5 PAX gathered at McKee Rd Elementary for another weekly edition of Area 51.  As YHC arrived at 0659, I found the other PAX ready to get after it.  SF was planted easily after all the rain we have had and after a quick hello we headed off to the bus parking lot to get started.

COP:

• SSH x 25 IC
• IW x 20 IC
• Low Slow Squat x 15 IC
• MC x 15 IC
• Peter Parker x 20 IC
• Parker Peter x 25 IC

No late arrivals, so YHC had the PAX line up at the far light post for a little parking lot work:

• High knees to middle light pole, jog it out to the other end
• Butt kickers to middle light pole, jog it out back to start
• Karaoke, with left shoulder leading, all the way to other end
• Karaoke, with right shoulder leading, back to start
• Backwards run to middle light pole, jog it out to other end

Time to get the PAX moving, so we moseyed over to the lower parking lot beside the soccer fields for a round of 11s (YHC originally thought about calling for round of 7s, but unwisely decided to ramp it up a bit):

• 11s across the parking lot with burpees and sumo jump squats at each end (10 burpees/1 sumo jump squat, 9/2, 8/3, etc).  Apologies to Lobster Roll as he had to plank it up and wait for the rest of us to finish our final two rounds.  Dude is a beast.

Circle up and on your six for 6 MOM:

• Dolly x 15 IC, hold’em
• Flutter x 15 IC
• Rosalita x 15 IC
• Protractor
• LBC x 25 IC

Enough ab work, let’s head over to the rock pile and complete a little heavy lifting.  Grab a lifting rock and circle up.

• Rock curls x 20 IC
• Rock Presses x 20 IC
• Goblet Squats x 20 IC
• Rinse & repeat x 2 (with 15 IC rd 2, 10 IC rd 3)

Head back over to the school for a little PC and wall work:

• PC x 60 secs (w/ air presses x 20)
• MC w/ ft on wall x 20 IC
• PC x 60 secs

Finish up with a little circuit work at the playground:

• Pull-ups x 10
• Squats x 20
• Complete AMRAP until YHC calls time (3-4 rounds completed)

COT

Moleskine:

• With cold temps and quite a bit of rain having fallen YHC wasn’t sure how many PAX would make it out at 0700 on a brisk Jan morning.  However, as is typical with any F3 endeavor, arrived at AO just before launch time to find the PAX ready to go.  If not a part of F3, how many of us would have posted on a morning like this.
• 11s sounded like a decent plan when the words came out of YHCs mouth.  However, after the first 4-5 rounds through, definitely had to second guess the call.  Fortunately the PAX powered through it with Lobster Roll making it look easy and O’Tannenbaum not too far behind.  O’Tannenbaum giving Lobster a good push throughout the morning.
• Beaver has become a staple of the Saturday morning workout at Area 51.  Stepped up to take the Q a few times as well.  TClaps.
• As always, an honor and a privilege to lead one of these workouts with a great group of men.

Announcements:

• Sign-ups upcoming for Mud Run and Blue Ridge Relay.  Let Turkey Leg know if you have any interest in joining a BRR team.
• 2nd Annual Charlotte Brain Tumor Race to be held in Charlotte at Marshall Park in Uptown on Saturday, 3/21/2015.  My brother, Chelms, and I are organizing Team Chepul Hill to participate in the race and raise money for Brain Tumor research, in support of our brother, Bill, who has been battling a brain tumor for over 2 1/2 years.  See the link below for more information:     http://www.braintumorcommunity.org/site/TR/TeamraiserEvents/CharlotteBrainTumorRace?pg=team&fr_id=2420&team_id=71982