All those derkins were brutal

All those derkins were brutal

26 PAX decided today would be a good day to go post at Anvil. They could have chosen tomorrow, or yesterday, but they picked today.  So the Q rolls in at 5:27 with Mermaid looking a bit nervous as if he was going to have to audible this one, at 5:29 the disclaimer was given to modify if necessary or if you are afraid of heights and off we went.

Mosey to 51 and out to the front lawn of the church for COP.

Some SSH, IW, and a few low slow squats.  All exercises were led while Q was slowly rotating to look at all the PAX #VeteranMove

During COP and ambulance flew down 51 with lights and sirens.  Some may regret not jumping on that ambulance figuring that was a better alternative than what was about to go down.

The Thing

Run over to the picnic tables close to the North Face church entrance for instructions which were:

• Run around trees to base of North Face
• 10 Jump Squats at the base
• Run up North Face
• 10 Sister Mary Catherine’s (Each leg) at the top
• Run up the hill to picnic table area for the following:
  • 10 Split leg squats on benches (each leg)
  • 10 derkins
  • Hairburners from one island to the next and back.
  • (The order of these last 3 was up to you based on availability of one of the plates for hairburners)
• Repeat this little beauty for a total of 5 cycles
• Some mary work until all are done.
• CMIYC farmer carry the plates back to the cars, or more specifically, my car, with 10 merkins then chase.
• Circle up and hold squat position until all PAX arrive
• Dolly, LBC’s, Flutter
• Finish with 20 Jump Squats.

Moleskine musings:

So that sucked.  My legs felt like jelly halfway through round 2, but 5 cycles were already called.  Too late to back out now.

I don’t think TR likes me anymore.  And not sure if its me with the plates or short people in general?  See at one time he was the primary controller of all things hairburner.  So he either brought the plates, or generously loaned them to others who would use them.  Either way, he knew when and where hairburner’s were going down.  Now there are surprises!  And who really likes to be surprised with hairburners?  On the other hand, it may be that he just hates short people.  Like Donald Trump’s plan to put up a fence to “keep out Mexico,” TR may campaign to build a fence to keep out short people.  And he will sell it as inexpensive, you know, because you won’t really have to build it very high.

One of these days I will plan a workout that will actually slow Lobster Roll down.  Today wasn’t that day, but the reality is if I did, every other PAX may merlot and/or die before it’s over.  LR was smoking it and Hops wasn’t too far behind.

O’Tannenbaum and Mermaid were keeping a steady pace as was Cane.  I just tried to keep up with them.  All the PAX were really hustling.

2 New FNG’s – Kris Kross had his hat cocked to the side after it was all over, not sure if it was his style or just exhausted and couldn’t get it back on straight.  We’ll assume it was his style.

Thunder Road leaves with a strong handle as he is White Lightning’s brother and apparently those are the 2 original Carowinds roller-coasters.  And Drop Thrill wasn’t even there to bring up that little fact nugget!

Thanks to Young Love and Mermaid for the invite to Q.  It was fun.  And thanks to Champagne for the take out.

-Alf

Announcements – All (except Stonehenge) converge at The Rock on Saturday.  Centurion converges at The Brave on Friday.