What’s in that trailer? A bunch of burpees.

What’s in that trailer? A bunch of burpees.

30 of Area 51’s finest including 3 FNG’s descended upon Death Valley and came out stronger and dirtier men.  With a mysterious trailer in tow captivating and possibly intimidating the early pax, YHC rolled into the parking lot with a plan to inflict some pain.  Here’s what we did:

Mosey down to track, run one lap and circle up in the center of the field.

Circle of PAIN:

10 burpees
SSH x 30
9 burpees
IW x 27 (actually 28)
8 burpees
LSS x 24
7 burpees
MC x 21
6 burpees
Peter Parkers x 18
5 burpees
Slow Merkins x 15
4 burpees
Heels to heaven x 12
3 burpees
Slow Wide Arm Merkins x 9
2 burpees
Dancing Chill Cut x 6
1 burpee
Slow Diamond Merkins x 3

Mosey one lap around track and back to center field for instruction on the circuit:

10 burpees OYO
Corner 1: Squat Jumps x 10
Corner 2: Dancing Chill Cuts x 10
Corner 3: Merkins x 10
Corner 4: Heels To Heaven x 10
1 lap around track

Rinse and repeat with each corner going up in increments of 10. Burpees stay at 10.  Total of 3 rounds.

Back up to Parking Lot for some quick Mary led by Sussudio:

• LBC’s x several
• Flutters x several

All Done

Ye Naked Moleskin:

First off, it was a great group of guys out there today.  Everyone that I saw was seriously putting some work in out there and sweating up a storm.  With this being my first Q at Death Valley and knowing it was going to be a large crowd, I hope I was able to put something together that was solid/painful for everyone.  Thank you all for the opportunity and the support out there.

I was seriously pondering tweeting out pictures of the trailer last night just to gain some intrigue, but it was so much better just to show up and let all the speculation begin right in front of me.  I knew I had raised a few eye brows when before I had even gotten out of my car, Semi-Gloss was walking over to me like a manager coming out of the dugout to tell me I’m being relieved.  Although, I’m pretty sure he was just hoping the trailer was stocked full of booze.

Ahhh, the ol’ burpee ladder to kickstart a Death Valley workout.  I was one leg away from channeling Stage Coach, but I knew I would not have survived it myself.  I had enough going on trying to work my way down by 3’s as pointed out by several pax.  I do believe we ALMOST skipped a round of burpees, but you can thank Gummy for reminding me.  Gummy was the one by the end of the workout that had dirt (we think) all over his forehead from his vigorous Heels To Heaven.

It was clear that when I divided the 30 pax into two groups that one was smarter than the other.  Of course it was the group that YHC was NOT a part of as that group decided to keep their clothes relatively dry by doing all exercises on the nice dry (sections) of the track, while the other group (including myself) did all of our exercises on the nasty, rain soaked, skin clinging, dirty soil of the field.  Cobains to all in my group.

At one point I thought I was going to break off to jump into the other (smarter) group, but I didn’t have the energy to keep up.  But I did try to give Horsehead some instruction to take over for me if our group was to finish up first.  He immediately responded with, “Why are you telling me this?  I’m about to pass out!”  Classic!

Great job to our 3 FNG’s Bear Cat, Interpol, and Deflator!  I don’t recall any of them slowing down once.  Gummy, what kind of consulting do they do???  Seriously, whenever you guys are in town, you are welcome to come by and get your shoes dirty!

Thanks to Sussudio for leading us all in some Mary and for being an inspiration to each of us on your dedication to exercise and outright ability to make the rest of us look ridiculously out of shape.  You are a beast and Florida doesn’t  know what’s coming.  Safe travels and send us a post card!  Oh and let us know when we can all visit.  Hope you have enough room for a few hundred pax!

Any other observations, please chime in on the comments.

Until next time,

Prohibition

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