Boxing Day Pain

Boxing Day Pain

Eight good men showed up to burn off the Christmas feast.  Q had plans to oblige that included multiple ponds and a trip up Ben Nevis however, there may have been a little too much celibration on Christmas day and plans had to be changed to avoid some of the pax spilling merlott.

It all went down something like this:

Mosey to Loch Ness for the Warm-up

• 20 SSH
• 15 Imperial walkers
• Carve the Loch into four pain stations
  • 25 dips and 25 squats at each of the first three pain stations and 10 burpees at the last pain station.
• Freely’s complained about not doing enough pull-ups at the workouts so what the hell we headed over to the pull up bars.  Group split into two teams.  First teams did pull-ups and waited for the second team to complete 25 dips on the bars.  Each team had two turns and the pull-ups and dips.

Mosey over to the Pond near the Bull Ring for Sevens

• 1 x Burpee at the bottom of the hill,  6 x Carolina Dry Docks at the top, one lap around the pond
• Repeato until you were at 6 burpees at the bottom and 1 Carolina dry dock at the top (5 laps of the pond in all)

Some of the PAX at this stage looked to be in more pain than usual.  Tolkien was the one exception leading the PAX.  Also forgot to mention Tolkien did a pre-run as well (boy is dedicated).

Mosey to Ben Nevis, no wait lets play Stop Sign!

Started to mosey over to Ben Nevis (got about 100 yards) but its was a sad looking Pax so stopped to do 25 Russian twists in cadence while we waited, followed by 25 merkins in cadence.  Situation did not look any better so cancelled the trip up Ben Nevis and decided to play “Stop Sign” and head back to the AO.  Not sure in the end that was any better.

Rules of “Stop Signs”

The rules of Stop Sign (will think of a better name later) were:

• At each stop sign you do 25 merkins
• At each fire hydrant you do 25 Carolina dry docks
• At each buses stop 25 LBCs

I believe we encountered:

• at least 8 stop signs on the way back (200 merkins)
• at least 3 fire hydrants (75 dry docks)
• at least two bus stops (50 LBCs).

It was a good push to finish us out and got back to the car park right on time and about 3.5 miles under our belts.  Personally my arms were on fire and Tolkien mentioned on twitter he had trouble turning his steering wheel on the way home.  All in all great effort.

Wanted to mention Jewel who came out to join us from Raleigh and also thanks to Dolphin for being the time keeper.

Appreciated the lead.

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