“You Can’t Take Away My Liberty……I Mean Freedom!”

“You Can’t Take Away My Liberty……I Mean Freedom!”

11 hungry pax showed up at Peak 51 this morning for some entertainment.  Not the same entertainment that is sitting in Stumptown Park across the street a la the Merry Go Round and Tilt A Whirl, but manly entertainment full of running and gasping for air.  Here’s the festival of fun that was provided:

Warm-Up:

Mosey to the parking lot in front of the community center for:

• 20 SSH
• 20 IW
• 20 MC
• 20 Peter Parker (delay tactic to wait on Insomniac as he came in hot)

Mosey to parking lot behind the bank for the merkin circle:

In a tight circle, all men got down in planking position, then had to shuffle based on what YHC called out:

• 5 arm strides to the left
• 5 regular merkins
• 5 arm strides to the right
• 5 arm strides to the left
• 5 hand release merkins
• 5 arm strides to the right
• 5 arm strides to the left
• 5 wide arm merkins
• 5 arm strides to the right

Slow mosey back to Sadie St.  Time for Catch Me if You Can:

• Partner run starts running while Partner 2 does 5 squats.  Once finished with squats, Partner 2 catches Partner 1 and flapjacks.  We continues on to Baucom Park.

Once at Baucom Park, grab a bench for :

• 10 dips, 10 decline merkins, 10 step-ups for each leg
• 15 dips, 15 decline merkins, 15 step-ups for each leg
• 10 dips, 10 decline merkins, 10 step-ups for each leg

Indian run back to Matthews Elementary.  Back at lot in front of community center, partner up again.  Partner #1 runs laps while Partner #2 does called exercise, then flapjack:

• Flutter
• Rosalita
• Dolly

Mosey back to the baseball field hill for triple nickel:

• 5 squats at the bottom
• 5 sister mary catherine at the top

It was at the bottom of the triple nickel run that I made a big “uh-oh”.  I asked Freedom to provide a 10 count, but instead of calling him Freedom, I called him “Liberty”.  I knew his name had something to do with a national virtue, but not cool at all YHC!  Freedom was a total gentleman and shrugged it off like a champ, but my apologies just the same brother!

We moseyed back to the point of origin for some mary when Slim Fast informed me we were at 1.93 at mileage.  We ran the additional .07 to make sure we hit 2.  Mary included:

• 20 LBC’s
• 19 Russian Twists (YHC got rattled and missed one….sorry boys!)

Mosey back to the cars….that’s a wrap!

Moleskin:

I had a blast today boys!  Thanks for letting me lead Slim Fast and Geraldo!  We got a little bit of everything in this morning and the crew really stayed together.  Lots of encouragement and gutting it out…..that’s why we show up at 5:30 every morning! Great work!  Kotters to Crabcake who just came back after 6 weeks or so out…..it didn’t show Crabcake.

Thanks again pax……I am certain I benefitted the most from this morning just given the opportunity to lead such a great group!

SF, thanks for the great prayer during BOM!

Hopper

Announcements:

• Convergence this Monday (Labor Day) at South Charlotte Middle at 6:30
• Convergence this Saturday for Football Game at Olympus
• Sign ups for Mud Run timeout on 9/12.  Get registered!
• There will be a Peak 51 workout on 9/10.  Freedom advises you to bring a headlamp.