Stranger Things

Stranger Things

If you haven’t already binge watched the Netflix series Stranger Things, do it. Without giving too much away, it’s about a boy who goes missing while cutting through the woods. Things do get strange as we learn he may or may not have fallen into a different dimension via a wormhole created by the Department of Energy and its experiments on psychic children. Plus, it’s got a drunken cop, a monster and Wynona Ryder (everyone loves a comeback). Where am I going with this?

Thirteen men, all old enough to know better, are staring at each other, under the 485 overpass. To even get to this point, we had stumbled in the dark, through a highly vegetated hobo-trail, past the Kid Pond on the backside of the Bull Ring. After 10 merkins, the call is move forward. However, we would go no further. The overpass crosses a swift moving, peter-deep creek. The right call was to turn back before we fell into a worm-hole.

I have to admit I was crushed our trailblazing ended a mere 15 minutes into the journey, plus I had no plan B. Here’s what I managed to come-up with.

7s on the hill behind the Kid Pond (very steep)
Merkins on bottom, burpees on top

3 laps of Kid Pond
10 merkins / 10 CCDs with each lap

Bull Ring lap and half
10 burpees at each half lap

From the front of the Bull Ring, run back to the center building and then to the Vine with 5 merkins at each cross street.

With 5 minutes left, we finished with a final lap of Conlan Circle and time bomb burpees. We managed just over the minimum 4 miles.

Moleskine
Thanks to the PAX who were pretty daring to even enter the woods and those who showed a lot of patience when it didn’t go as planned. Thank you.

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