No Raincoat Required

No Raincoat Required

24 men braved the elements [well, not really] at Joust [or are we still Jevlar?] this morning.

The Thang

Jog down to the track

Run up/down stadium steps, zig-zagging our way across

Standard warm up… SSH / IW / Squats

Field warm up… shuffle right / shuffle left / butt kickers / back pedal… each 50 yards

Lunge walk from 50 yard line to goal line – stopping every ten yards to rep out 15 merkins

Partner up [see Moleskine for more information on what should have been an easy task] and do as follows:

-Partner 1 full speed 400 meter run while Partner 2 zig-zags up/down the stadium steps; meet at exchange point and do 100 merkins [in aggregate with your partner]; then flap jack with Partner 2 doing the 400 meter full speed run and Partner 1 on the stadium steps; meet at the exchange point and do 80 merkins in aggregate

-Repeato

-Repeato

-Repeato… for a total of 4 laps per partner, with some change ups in the exercises we did at the exchange points as we switched from partner 1 to partner 2 each time on the track

Did some planks throughout the workout, threw in some LBCs along the way and Carolina Dry Docks.

Finished the workout with mason twists and 20 merkins OYO.

Moleskine

Great group of men out there this morning.  Enjoyed having a chance to lead.  Few noteworthy items I recall:

• To avoid having people partner up with someone they know really well, I thought I would split the PAX in two and then do some quick partner assignments.  To split the PAX I said, “if you run a mile in under 6:30, stand to my right… if you run a mile in over 7:30 stand to my left [footnote: yes, I’m aware there is a gap between 6:30 and 7:30.. but it was all part of my master plan]”.  Anyway, I think about 90% of the PAX stood to my left… sandbaggers!!  So, then I said… “OK, if you run a mile in 7:00 or less stand to my right.”  A couple more PAX shifted to my right, but we were still WAY out of balance. Thankfully, this debacle played out quickly in about 15 seconds… so, I aborted the plan and we just paired up with whoever happened to be close by.
• Lots of fumes and chemical odors were inhaled this morning… I had the Icy Hot cream lathered on pretty thick, and the beautiful new track at CC still smells like it just came out of a new shoe box.
• Lots of giggles [should I call them “manly giggles”… no, that actually sounds worse] and banter during the opening warm up exercises.  That’s when I knew I was just going too easy on you guys.  Not as many giggles during the track work!
• So our FNG today has a science background and a middle name of Justice.  We debated a couple of nickname options… Bill Nye and Buford T were the finalists.  I decided to approach it democratically with an all-PAX vote.  I’m experiencing some buyer’s remorse, as the selection was Buford T… but my gut tells me that Bill Nye is where we should have landed.
• I need more guys to join the Alexander Youth Network workouts that we do from 4-5PM one Saturday each month.  Email me at shawn.heath@duke-energy.com if interested.