The Worlds Longest Burpee

The Worlds Longest Burpee

8 solid men answered the call at the godfather of A51, all despite YHC’s warning of the downpainment which was to follow.  With supervision from home office in the form of aviary bait and kotters to an old friend it was off into the sunrise at the sound of the bell. What followed was more than a mere challenge, trust and believe.

The Thang:

Long warm up mosey from the cars around the front of the church and into the courtyard for COP

• SSH X 25
• Mountain ClimberX 10 then hold 6 inches for a 10 count
• Peter Parker X10 then hold 6 inches for 10 count
• Parker Peter X10 then hold 6 inches for 10 count
• Low Slow Squats X15
• Recover

Mosey to the “hotbox” for the main event, split into two groups, 1s ran clockwise round the field, 2s ran counter (T-claps to StoneCold for being pressed into the 2s defacto leader).  Meet in the middle for 20 merkins, finish the lap at the Hotbox.  1s assume the peoples chair for 20 arm presses in cadence, 2s wall walked (plank walked backwards up the wall and back again) until 1s finished.  Flapjack.

2nd lap opened with backpedal to the meeting point, 20 merkins in cadence, return to the Hotbox where 2s lead with legged peoples chair X 30 seconds while 1s executed balls-to-the-wall-ups (or handstand merkins if you prefer.)  Flapjack then repeato on the other leg.

3rd lap opened Karaoke then met at the middle for 20 military merkins in cadence, finish in a regular run back up to the hotbox for Clap-Ups then low slow jump squats X15 in cadence.  Last lap was done indian run style but to restrict puppeting, any pax leaving the 6 must run a “double lap” of the line.  This challenged the sensibilities of a great many pax and not only did we have a great many double laps, but everyone seemed to trip over each other in the execution, seemed to YHC we could have just paid attention to the pace???  After the obligatory 20 count merkins in cadence (no not 18) we returned to the Hotbox for a visit for Jack Webb.  Chatter alleged an “Angry Flipper” which I have yet to understand yet we made it to 7/28 before protestations called Q off from any further repetitions.

As Jack Webb was ended prematurely we made up for it with a 6 tree suicide where hand release merkins matched the number of the outbound trip while a single waited on the inbound.  Mad props go to Stone Cold and Hammer for leaving YHC a full lap back by the end of the nearly 5 minute suicide.

After 5 minutes of Merry at the cars we were wrapped and, in YHC’s case at least, completely gassed.

Moleskinnier:

It was great to have our politikan brother from home office stop in and sweat a little, we let him know he made the right choice on this particular Saturday as The Rock never is so lacking in imaginative Qs that it follows a tired script.  It was also fantastic to have Fillmont back among the ranks this Saturday after a long absence.  The man is truly an inspiration in what can be achieved with a little grit and brotherhood.  Finally I was stoked to get 7 souls willing to come work with me on the weekend of F3 camp and even more thrilled to have them willing soak up the punishment I had gleefully scripted for us.  After a 4 day break I was looking to sweat hard and that we did, but the pax were game for the pain.  Gummy did mention he was happy about no burpees until I pointed out every exercise set he had done was essentially an extended burpee… rules be darned.

Flipper out

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