Smokey and the Bandit

Smokey and the Bandit

While many of our regulars embarked on a mud cow pie soaked journey through the Netherlands of Gaston, SC, the rest of us assembled for a nice little Saturday AM smoker.  It was a perfect day for a workout – absolutely beautiful weather.

The Thang:

Warmup cheeseweaver through the buses, led by the 2.0s.

Warmup COP in the grass field behind the Middle School

• SSH X 20 IC
• 10 Burpees OYO
• IW X 20 IC
• Hillbilly Squat X 20 IC
• LBC X 20 IC
• Flutter X 20 IC
• 10 Burpees OYO

Mosey to Elementary School Playground

3 Sets of the following, with a partner.  Some planking to regroup after the lap

• 10 good pullups, with partner assist
• 20 donkey swing kicks
• 20 derkins on picnic table
• Lap around track

1/2 mile run to HS Football Field – No Man Left Behind.  Regroup to pick up the six multiple times.  Climb the fence to get in #mudrun

Line up in End Zone, run field doing following exercises:

Some plank regrouping after the sprints back to keep us together

• 10 Merkins at 25, 50, other 25, other goal (40 total), sprint 100 yds back
• 10 LBCs at 25, 50, other 25, other goal (40 total), sprint 100 yds back
• 10 V-UPs (Crunchy Frog) at 25, 50, other 25, other goal (40 total), sprint 100 yds back
• 5 Burpees at 25, 50, other 25, other goal (20 total), sprint 100 yds (backwards in honor of GJ)

Climb the fence again #escape and long group run back to Disc Golf Field

6MOM – led by the PAX.  Asked PAX who have not led a workout before to take a shot at calling cadence.  Let the 2.0s take a shot at this too, which was pretty entertaining.

• Dreamweaver – Flutters
• Gameshow – LBCs
• Boondock (2.0)- Dolly
• Stax (2.0) – Protractor (not sure what to do with the 576deg call)
• Shoeless Joe (2.0) – Freddie Mercury

Strong takeout by Smoky

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Moleskin:

With only a few pax in the parking lot at 6:56, I thought we may have a really small group today.  It was good to see the latecomers roll up with only a min to spare, especially with all of the 2.0s.  The Sun Valley campus is really a great spot for dads to bring their kids while we workout with all of the playgrounds and the obstacle course.

Strong performances by all – some guys really pushing through the runs.  The partner pullups were tough, but we need to start doing a lot more of these.  After doing these while Stone Cold assisted me picked me up like a small child at Joust yesterday, I realized that I am extremely weak in this area. The goal was to keep the reps fairly low but to keep cycling through exercises today over and over so we could keep good form.  Sometimes doing a bunch of sets of 10 or 20 gives a much better workout than trying to do 50 at a time, since most of us have to really cheat the form when you go to the high reps #headbobbers.

The V-Ups on the field were rough.  I barely finished these.  Looked like a dying possum towards the end, I suppose.

Performance of the day goes to Smokey, as he tried multiple times to race his 2.0.  Bunch of wheezing and gasping, and possibly some dry heaves going on.  Also, he lost.  Bad.  Nobody else wanted any of that action.

Good to see the Dream and Blue Screen clowncar drive up.  Those boys got after it all morning and never gave up.

Gameshow is becoming an Outland regular.  Good to have him stick around for Grindstone afterwards as well.

EE was leading the way on the field work, as usual.

Late Show is running a Spartan Race with his wife later today, but still posted for the full workout.  Strong?  or Crazy?

Shout out to the #Outland Mud Run Team of Drop Thrill, Shepherd, Glass Joe, and Turnpike.  We were thinking about you guys this AM.  Hope you didn’t eat too many cow patties.

– Horsehead