You can tell a lot about a man from his Merkins

You can tell a lot about a man from his Merkins

Yep – you can quote me on that.  19 big hairy brutes showed what kind of men they are for a progression interval and merkin party.

We ran around a lot to start with and did some really sloppy merkins to show what poor form is.  Then we started doing merkins properly.

We ran to the Bull Ring and ran 1 minute out, 1 minute back, 1 min out, 1 min back, 1 min out, 1 min back.  Everyone at their own pace and the idea was to increase your distance each time.  It was a great way to keep everyone together, but I think that no-one, including yhc, was able to increase their  distance.  In other words, we all started out too fast.

To settle down, we settled down for 50 perfect-form merkins.  They were not easy.  In fact yhc developed a brief, flashing migraine as a result, which I think I hid from the pax well.  To get rid of the intense pain (broken blood vessel, stroke?) we took a break for some Mary.  Mary always does the trick, so we were then able to mosey off to the bottom of the hill.

At the bottom of the hill we started things off with 5 x “6-count” burpees.  Then we ran for 30 seconds up the hill, then returned to the bottom for 6 x “6-count” burpees.  We repeated this fun little ladder all the way up to 10 burpees, the idea being to increase your run distance each time.  Mr. Bean, Big Tuna, Dolphin, and Wingman all finished this portion of the workout extremely strong.

After this we wandered off to a patch of grass and did another ladder, this time the old favorite: Merkin Mary Madness.  This continued until we sadly had to head home.  After a quick stop on the way for a few more merkins, we finished up with an all-you-got sprint to the parking lot.  At this point Mr Bean was so excited to finish up and get to his bagel at Einsteins that he jumped through a hedge on the way back.

Yhc’s sole objective for the workout was to punish Mic Check after the hideous beating he laid down on us last week.  MC is always saying that he hates running, so I tried to include a liberal sprinkling of running in the hopes of wearing him down.  It didn’t really work.  The fact is, MC Scrapper can hang with the best of us on running, merkins, burpees, or whatever you care to throw at him.  And then still talk smack at the end of it.

It was great leading the group.  I for one was totally exhausted at the end.

Great to have Sanction out for his second workout.

Also great to overhear Mighty Mite mentioning that the workout wore him out.  Anytime you wear down the big man it’s gotta be a good workout.

Dolphin has the Q next week.  He has been getting progressively more excited over the last few weeks and at this point can hardly contain himself.  Rumor has it that some kind of “back waxing” (???) will be included in the beatdown.  Don’t wanna miss that.

Thanks y’all.  See you at Fight Club Monday morning.