Old School circa 2013

Old School circa 2013

The plan for Bagpipe today was pretty basic; I wanted to make sure we had a decent balance of distance and exercises.  If you have seen the Kill22 hashtag making its rounds on social media, it is to bring awareness to the tragic fact that an average day in the US brings another 22 veteran suicides.  You do 22 push-ups, and similar to the Ice Bucket Challenge, nominate others. So in some small way, I wanted to make sure the message was shared and we focused on 22 (and 11 where needed/with partner exercises)

5 burpees OYO
SSH x 22
4 burpees OYO
Merkins x 11
Mountain Climber x 11
3 burpees OYO
Imperial Walker x 11
2 burpees OYO
Squats x 11
1 burpee OYO

Short mosey to Bull Ring for 2 laps:
Partner up, with stops at each quarter move around the clock

Lap 1
Partner #1 does 11 merkins, partner #2 hold plank until merkins done.
Run together to next stop, flapjack around the ring

Lap 2
Repeat drill but this time with 11 burpees

Head past the bulls to pond/hill:

Set of 11s on the hill with merkins at the bottom and jump squats at the top

Head back with a stop at Brixham Hill tent for 11 of each
LBC, Flutter, Rosalita, Dolly, American Hammer (aka Russian Twist)

Head home

Moleskin:
The hill exercises were a crowd pleaser.  Normally we would have done a set of 7s but with the focus on our 22 theme, 11 was necessary and it lost its luster at round 5.  Doc McStuffins was absolutely tearing it up on the hill.  And poor Bucky partnered with him on the Bull Ring and that was a bad draft pick today, he was motoring.  And even though we stopped just at Bull Ring & pond, that consumed about 35 mins of the morning.  Pretty simple but hopefully effective set up today.

On 2 separate occasions, the standard “Who is leading today?” generating a response of “old school”
when I raised my hand.  Ironically, one reply was Frehley who is both old and old school given we started together in 2013.  And I guess any pax who has been around for more than 2 yrs can be considered old school given our yearbook only goes back 3.5 yrs.

Announcements:
A few Ragnar spots open, reach out to JRR Tolkien

The next Reservation workout will have normal workout, with football game to follow

Timekeeper is reading “Legacy” by James Kerr.  Great read.

F3Dads “Play 60” is cancelled, but some confusion here.  May be an audible to fill the void but as of now there is no F3Dads this weekend.  If this is not correct and I missed something about, sound off below but at this point don’t believe anything on the schedule this Saturday for the kids.