Easter Surprises

As we gather for pain, let’s not forget to honor that most secular of treasured beasts, the Easter Bunny. Sounds so innocent and friendly but unfortunately, this was the sadistic brother of the Easter Bunny.

Pre-Thang
Kiefer for like 9.xxxxx which is close enough to 10 in my book. YHC for 5 and some change. YHC later regretted every one of those miles

The Thang

Mosey to beside the elementary school where there was a most awkward of COPs due to the student driver stopping right beside our group. Is he going to hit us? Honk the horn at us? Should have called monkey humpers. #opportunitymissed

COP
SSH IC x25
IW IC x25

Instead of a mosey, we get our first sighting of Sadistic Bunny.

Bunny Hop forward (also known as Broad jump) followed by a Burpee. Repeato ad infinitum. Some complaints that no end point was given for this. That was surely intended.

Finally I called halt and mosey to the playground

Round 1
Dips x20
Swing Donkey Kicks x20
Step Ups each leg x20 (Many questions about ‘each leg?’ – Yes brothers, this was part of the grind after all those innocuous bunny hops earlier)
Burpee Pull Ups x10 (Go down for a burpee, on the hop back up grab the bar and do a pull up).
Run a lap
Various plank exercises until group gathers

Round 2
Repeato Round 1 with 25 each time and no Burpee Pull Ups as pretty sure I only saw HH and I doing them and when HH isn’t refusing something with a burpee in it, I get nervous

Native American run along the backroad until TLS says stop and I give two minutes of my time over to him

The Late Show on Q…

Stop at the gravel drive for some awkward placement of feet and arms, for an uncomfortably close set of SEAL sit-ups. (Sure enough, a dog-walker came by and got the awkward man-show that the student driver missed at the COP.

Continue the mosey stopping at the corner of the practice field so that odd-men-out The Late Show and Horsehead could watch the PAX assemble in groups of four to do SEAL planks (four men in a group in plank position, no one’s feet allowed to touch the ground). In keeping with the easter bunny theme I guess we could call these “basket weavers,” but SEAL planks sounds more manly.

Over to the rock pile and get a rock you can fit in one hand and a rock your Mrs. could be proud of. Line up on the sideline.
Run toward the tower (about 40-50 yards) and back.
(10) total T-merkins with small rock in hand (5 each arm).
(10) squat clean and press your big rock.
Repeato down the ladder 8,6,4,2 (solid work by Smokey on these bad boys… lung and leg burner)

Deposit your rocks and over the other sideline, spacing out about 6 feet between each man.

First round…
Bear crawl approximately 10 yards, sprint 20. Repeat till you cross the field, sprint back to starting sideline.

Second round…
Easter Egg Rolls of course…
Superman/Banana approximately 10 yards, hop up and sprint 20. Repeat till you cross the field, sprint back to starting sideline.
Not sure, but I think I ended up rolling back towards the starting sideline at some point.

Mosey back to the hill, backward crawl up the hill.

Mosey to the Imaginary Shovel Flag for a quick round of Mary.
Hammer planks, can openers, and 10 burpees oyo to wrap it up.

COT
GJ took us out. Pray for The Count and his travels to see his Dad as well as his Dad’s health.

Moleskine
– Easter travels took some of our group today but we still managed to find the Easter Bunny today. Or at least his sadistic brother. Where is F3er Cottontail when we need him? Actually, given his name, we might not want to know that.
– The group was questioning where we were going with those Bunny Hop Burpees. Some angry looks from HH and Crab Legs when the answer was we were just going to keep going.
– Still not sure what to make of the student driver stopping right by us. Did we scare him? Was he trying to scare us? Fortunately no PAX were hurt. Just a standard weird moment at the Island of Misfit Toys.
– The Burpee pullups were refused by many. Regular burpees were done instead. You guys missed the bunny on this one.
– The awkward man touching during the Seal situps was no Bueno. Having it observed by a non-PAX was even worse.
– Sad when HH manages to get TLS to join in his refusal on those seal partner awkward planks.
– Pretty sure TLS was planning some sort of kettlebell rope pull. HH may have managed to avoid them by pestering him before the workout began. Well done sir.
– Welcome to a long lifetime of F3 for Crush. He is Boondock’s (HHs 2.0) cousin and rightly refused what we were doing at times. The young man is wiser than many of us.
– Two weeks in a row of using rocks. This is not a habit pattern we need to continue.

Thanks for letting TLS and I lead a great group of men! Have a great Easter!!!

Glass Joe