Same old, same old

Same old, same old

12 men gave it their all this morning.  YHC couldn’t think of a single original exercise, so we just dipped in the bag for some old favorites.  Here’s how it ended up:

Run around the lot then circle up for a brief warmup.  No side straddle hops here – we value our calves this close to BRR.

Run to another lot for the merkin challenge: 10 merkins, 5 seconds plank, 9 merkins, 5 seconds plank… etc….etc…. down to one.

Mosey off to another lot for the merkin bear crawl ladder, originally the brainchild of one Mighty Mite, copied remorselessly by yhc.  Bear crawl two parking spaces, 2 merkins.  Bear crawl 2 more space, then 4 merkins… etc…etc up to 20 merkins.  Since none of us could do 20 merkins at the end of all this, we opted to do 4 sets of 5 instead of cheating.

Mosey to Firebirds area: grab some wall.  15 slow dips, 12 slow durkins.  Run around lot, then repeat.  Around this point it started to hurt quite a lot.

Mosey to another parking lot (this is The Maul) and circle up for merkin mary madness.  20 mary, 2 merkins, 20 mary, 4 merkins …etc…etc up to 10 merkins then back down to two.  Highlights were the double sets of heels to heavens and russian twist (or tweest, as some would say).

Mosey to last parking lot for some 6-count burpees, followed by sprints up the lot.  We ran out of time and had to cut this short after only 3 sets – finish with a sprint back to COT.

Moleskin:

It was a smaller group than usual today at The Maul.  We think that some of our regulars may have attended a Bean-fest at Dromedary this morning.  Nice to see the SOBs spreading their wings.

Strong effort from all this morning.  Chippy was enjoying the merkins very much, and was seen to be laughing on many occasions.

Most everyone completed the full routine of mary – merkins which was a tough one today.

Wingman and Mighty Mite almost gave out on the slow durkins, but held it together for victory somehow.

Announcements:

There is a convergence on labor day I believe at 6:30am at base camp…?  Please check the weekly email for more details.

Thanks for the chance to lead this morning.  It was a pleasure.