- When:07/17/15
- QIC: Ickey Shuffle
- The PAX: Abacus, Bout Time, Boutique, Cane, Checkpoint, Chelms, Frasier, Hops, Ickey Shuffle, Margo, Mario, Mermaid, Pulp Fiction, Rip Curl, Snowflake, Torpedo, Udder
Taming Cerberus and Christening Tartarus
The chatter begain on Wednesday via Twitter. It continued on Thursday at Ghost Runner and afterwards at Vintner. It seemed that everyone was excited about the new parking deck at the Centurion AO and wanted to know if we would be breaking it in this morning. Some went as far as to show up early Friday morning to Neil Armstrong the thing (Chelms, Hops, Mermaid, Abacus, Cane, Margo, Checkpoint) #PlantTheFlag. Parking decks are like Bob Dylan: immensely popular with the people but YHC will never understand the appeal. After a few strategic head fakes and some internal deliberation, the deck was included in the weinke since if nothing else YHC is a #ManOfThePeople. Today’s plan consisted of Cerberus, three segments named for the three headed hellhound which gaurds the entrance to the underworld in Roman mythology, and Tartaus, the aforementioned parking deck named for a portion of the underworld known as the region of torments. Kip Winger’s favorite number began their weekend thusly:
Cerberus Head #1: Run to the Charlotte Acquatics parking lot and line up for the meat grinder. 20 merkins then run to the top of the hill. 19 jump knee tucks then run to the bottom of the hill. 18 merkins, run, 17 jump knee tucks, run, and so on and so forth all the way down to one.
Cerburus Head #2: Run to the rock pile for some glorious combination lift supersets. Find that the rock pile is gone thanks to the new landscape layout. Panic. Think of something on the fly. Deconstructed burpees it shall be, so 21 squats, 21 merkins, 21 things where you kick your feet in and out from the plank position. Next set, 15 deconstucted burpees. Next set, 9 deconstructed burpees. Somewhere during this Mario appeared out of the darkness, like a ferryman on the river Styx. #ComeSailAway
Cerberus Head #3: Run to the front of the school for strength work on the picnic tables. Three exercises, 100 reps each broken up however you see fit. Split Squats, Dips, Incline Merkins. Once finished gather on the sidewalk for a bit of Mary. Thank you to Chelms for leading this piece.
Tartarus: Will he or won’t he? We ran towards the mouth of the underworld but YHC deliberately stuck to the other side of the road as a bit of a rope a dope. At the last minute we turned toward the gates and into the deck. Run up each ramp, do 20 Dollies and 20 Flutter Kicks, continue the pattern on and on, up and down the deck until the Q calls time. Time called at 6:13, run back to launch point for an on time arrival at 6:15 a.m.
NMM: YHC was crestfallen to learn that the rock pile has gone to the great quarry in the sky, #FarewellWheelhouse. If you were wondering, the rock work was to be three sets of ten reps of Thrusters, Reverse Lunges, and Floor Presses into Crunches. In mythology the Gods often would screw with mortals for their own amusement so we got a taste of that today and had to ad lib. Cerberus was basically two German Shepherd heads and a Corgi head today. Hopefully everyone enjoyed the deck work. The prospect of spending every Friday for the forseeable future at the back of the pack chasing #YouPeople up and down that thing makes YHC feel like Morrissey on muscle relaxers. Thank you to the 16 men who came out this morning, I hope you were rewarded and challenged. Southern Discomfort 8/1/15. Mud Run coming up in October, F3 block of start times has been secured but sign ups are not live yet so be on the lookout. To make up for the missing rock work YHC expects to see all of you at Olympus Saturday morning.
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I think Head @1 was almost as bad as the parking deck. That sucked and it was worse because I tried to catch Frasier the whole time (I know – what was I thinking – maybe somoene would run into him and I could go right by). Head #2 would have been much worse with real Churpees and Head #3 was a grind (especially for those of us with soccor arms).
Liked the first “official” parking deck workout wih the run up and down with stops for dollies/flutters (or is it flutters/dollies). Got a sense of the pain to come when we hit that deck for a full 45 minutes.
Also, I nominate IS for nicest Q in all of F3. I don’t think I ever had a Q say “the next exercise is ____, please”. I may use that against all future Q’s (excluding YHC) to refuse to start an exercise until they ask nicely.
Frasier – I think you owe F3 Area 51 something like 10,550 merkins and 5,650 burpees unless you get a doctors note for that “fracture”.
Motion to rename Mario to Charon, the ferryman on the River Styx. 2nd? And where were you brother – showed up out of nowhere. Run in? LIFO? Lost?
Interesting name for Centurion’s (Roman) new parking deck. Tartarus (Greek) to go with Palatine Hill (Roman). Cerberus (both Greek & Roman mythology) was painful – especially the 1st & 2nd heads, as you noted IS.
Perhaps Runstopper will return someday to the AO he helped launch and give the pax a Greco-Roman themed beatdown? #wrestler #notights
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