Rock out with your clock out

Rock out with your clock out

16 SOB’s showed up on a glorious, sunny, dry, 65 degree morning…wait…never mind.  16 bada**es showed up in rainy, cold, disgusting conditions to see YHC’s VQ at The Brave.  The Brave is the elite…the best of the best…where grown men (and Tolkien) come to find pain only to make themselves better.  YHC was offered the chance to lead these fine men into the gloom and eagerly accepted (was told by Mario I had no choice) the challenge.

The Thang:

Last week The Brave suffered a beatdown from Mr. Bean…who coincidentally did half my planned workout.  At first I was deflated…then I quickly realized that Mr. Bean was just brilliant in copying my workout one week ahead of time.  It’s like he was from the future and then went back in TIME.  #michaeljfoxrules

Here’s what we did…gather the PAX at 0515 and make a beeline towards the parking deck since it’s raining.  4 seconds into the workout make a hard right and start moseying towards the Bull Ring which was turned into a clock today.

Arrive at the Bull Ring/Clock for an AMRAP of the following:

Odd laps – sprint the straightaway, recover around putting green, sprint the straightaway. Then complete one lap around the Clock stopping at the 12, 9, 6, and 3 o’clock positions for 12 merkins at each stop (48 total per lap)

Even laps – Bear Panda Crawl the straightaway, recover around the putting green, bear Panda Crawl the straightaway. Then complete one lap around the clock swapping the merkins for burpees

Round and round we go until 0610

Head back to The Vine

Congratulate Bunker on awesome Q

Moleskine:

The weather was nasty this morning.  Before we even got to the Ring, Gumbo was crying (or was that rain on his face) about how much he loved us all.  Everyone had 5 lbs of water in their shoes before we did our first merkin.  Nipple chafing began quickly….some went shirtless, some tried to go pantless (stop it Tolkien).  All of this within 5 minutes…it was going to be a good morning.

No confusion this morning from the PAX…probably because directions were so clear.  The chalk was used at 4:45 and by 5:15 it was gone….YHC still gets an A for effort.  Maybe if I had borrowed Frasier’s Murderhorn Championship chalk it would have been visible…or perhaps it would have disappeared just as fast as that dude can run.  Seriously…he’s already done with next week’s Swift workout.

The PAX was strong this morning.  Right out of the gate Mario, Panda, General, Tuck took off like madmen.  YHC thought surely he would catch them later while he “rested” on the running portion.  You guys were strong this morning…couldn’t catch you guys today.

Outback was a beast AGAIN.  He showed up early, ran 72 miles, did 500 burpees, and then ate my workout for a snack.  #checkhisbagforhgh

Madame Tussauds was awesome leading up to my VQ.  Offering advice, videos, moral support, twitter updates, and I even think he had a plane flying overhead with directions in case I got lost in the Q.  Thanks for the support brother.

Speaking of Overhead…welcome FNG Overhead.  Nice to have you out there…your first post at The Brave was awesome.  Glad to have you out and look forward to more.

Flint was running in galoshes…or at least that’s what he thought he needed.  No one told you that you need a life preserver for The Brave did they.

I heard Mic Check once this morning….I heard him say (or at least thought I did so I’m sticking with it), “man…is this a Black Diamond workout?”  #boom  (I know, I know…I haven’t posted to BD yet. Chill out).

One-niner showed up late and still crushed it.  He told me it was horrible….perfect.

Soft Pretzel and Argonaut stayed with YHC for pretty much the entire workout…awesome to have you guys out there pushing me and each other.  Softie and I had the countdown going on the last lap.  #sub6minmilepacers

Kudos to you for your comment Wingman….had a great point about hearing the rain and choosing between a Fartsack and a workout with the PAX #dontleaveQhanging

But the best part of the day was learning Tolkien HATES bear Panda Crawls….I’m sure we’ll see a lot of those in the future.  It helps us keep up with him.  Of course I’m sure he’ll come after me and make me do 700 lb bucket carries, push me to have my heart explode trying to go sub-20 on a 5k, or some other insane strength exercise that he crushes and I can’t do.  #muchrespect

Not bad for a day’s work.  #bunkermorethanjustarunner

Thanks for the opportunity to lead today.