The Manmaker

The Manmaker

Alarm went off at 5am and i immediately checked outside to see a steady rain. My first thought was “wow would i love to fartsack”, subsequently followed by “there’s a preblast, everyone will be fine, i won’t be missed”, and finally “they’ll probably only be 3 of us like my last sofa wib q”.  Alas, duty calls, get dressed you bum and get going!

I went through the standard routine: drain lizard, brush teef, apply 1 extra swipe of deodorant as top layer over yesterday’s base, neglect to address my Semi-Gloss ‘esque morning hair, hock up sinus crud, cry, drink water, grab rancid work out gloves, proceed to AO.

And here’s what we did:

Partner-up accordingly

Opening mile: new route https://www.strava.com/routes/3411508

• Start at our trusty 5-0 whip
• left onto Rea Road
• left on Windyrush Road
• Run to intersection of Windyrush and Foxworth Drive
• Reverse course back to to 5-0 (approx 1 mile)

Baby track:

• Partner carry 1/2 lap / 15 partner derkins each / flapjack and complete 15 more partner derkins at start

Playground:

• Primate bars: 5 pull-ups on one end / traverse bars / 5 more pull-ups on last rung (audible to 10 pull-ups due to wet bars)
• 20 partner plank sit-ups each

Concession stand:

• 20 incline merkins each
• People’s chair on concession with 50 overhead air press

Batting cages: (very aggressive in hindsight)

• 10 hand-release burpees
• 20 diamond merkins each

Run through field back to baby track and repeat.

6:06 wrap-up by 5-0 for closing mile. Done.

Most completed 2-2.5 full circuits.

Review:

So Bushwood called me out yesterday in the preblast comments for not coming up with a catchy name for this workout, and i’ll admit it was a lazy miscue on my part.  So i came up with The Manmaker.  I also considered Legendary Loop and others but they were lame.  This workout contained a fair amount of upper body work thus the name.  It will be back.

Rumor has it Sundancer knows someone who spilled merlot thrice.  Voodoo may or may not have been partnered with that person and was subjected to witnessing.

Kirk partnered with me despite my reluctance and pulled me the entire way. Thanks for the push. One day i’ll learn to not try and keep up on the opener…it wouldn’t be today.  On my last partner derkin set i thought i was either going to spill or collapse; luckily neither.  We all know Kirk is fast but his motor is impressive.  He was stronger on the partner carries with me on his back at 190-195 than i was with him on mine and he’s 170.

Welcome to our brothers GOP, Sloppy and Becky from the Valley AO (new AO check it out). Great work out there today.  This workout was not easy and you all crushed.

I saw strong work being put in by everyone.  Icicle and Bel Aire stood out on the circuits. Voodoo and Talk Box pushing a strong pace on the closing mile.

Honored to lead and get stronger with you brothers.