Miles, Mountains, and Merkins

Miles, Mountains, and Merkins

YHC has run his fair share of hills and miles so far this week, so why not just continue the trend and bring something a little different to The Charge.  We’re leaving campus today men!

So as Tesla was locking up his vehicle, YHC gave the obligatory short disclaimer and off we went.

We started off with a mosey up through the carpool circle and stopped on the sidewalk for what would be our first of many sets of 20 merkins.

We continued up past the basketball court and lacrosse field and circled up in the parking lot.

COP:

• SSH x20 IC
• IW x20 IC
• Squats x20 IC
• Merkins x20 OYO

Mosey out to Sardis Rd and head to Robinson Woods

Run to Glen Oaks Rd  – 20x merkins

Run down Glen Oaks Rd. to Canyon Trail – 20x merkins

Run down Canyon Trail to Post Oak Rd  – 20x merkins

Run down Post Oak Rd to Whitestone Rd. – 20x merkins

Run up Whitestone and stop at intersection with Glen Oaks Rd….wait for instructions

Hill repeats

Pax to run up and down Whitestone between Post Oak and Whitestone, with increasing reps of merkins (at top) and sit-ups (at bottom): 10x, 12x, 14x, 16x, 18x, 20x – finish at corner of Whitestone and Glen Oaks.

When finished, run to bottom of Glen Oaks – 20x merkins

Run back to AO, with a stop in the upper parking lot for LBCs (IC x20)

Arrive in lower parking lot and close out with some Mary

• Flutter x20 IC
• Dolly x20 IC
• Rosalita x20 IC
• Freddy Mercury x20 IC
• CCV x13 IC (left/right)

Total distance – 3 miles

Total merkins – 230

Moleskine:

Great group out there this morning guys!  Yet another perfect spring morning for a workout.  T-claps to Huddle who ran to/from the workout this morning.  He gave me early warning of what he was up against when he asked me where we would be conducting our workout.  Important information should he need to peel off for an emergency.  Good thing we had hill repeats in the plan as it allowed him to take care of business and rejoin us.  Huddle, I can tell you from experience that 2 mile run home could have been quite the adventure had you not done that.

I know we’ve been back in Robinson Woods before, but I believe this workout was a first for The Charge and we got to see more of the neighborhood than usual…and we found another nice little hill to climb.  BRR training season has begun, so I expect we’ll be seeing more of this type of thing across many of our AOs.

I think I saw Chowda, Arena, and Early Bird staying up front during the repeats, but the rest of the pax were not far behind.  Tesla, Backup, Voit, Pigskin, and Huddle were right there.

Always a pleasure to lead men.  Hope you got your money’s worth this morning,

Thanks Tesla for the prayer to close us out.

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