Runner Arms = Terrible Merkin Form

Runner Arms = Terrible Merkin Form

On a crisp, cool morning with the smell of college football in the air, 31 men from Day Zero, Olympus/Ascent, and The Rock all converged on the smoothest parking lot in all of Area 51 for a Saturday morning beatdown.  With YHC having focused on running workouts for the last several months, I was a little nervous about leading an hour-long bootcamp.  But then I remembered this was going to be at The Rock, so the bar was going to be pretty low (shots fired from the Day Zero camp).  With the clock saying 0700 and the disclaimer claimed, this is how it went down:

The Thang:

Warm up mosey around the parking lot/exploring to make sure the bigger rock pile was still there, and back to the big lot to grab a few stragglers.  Circle up for YHC’s extended COP:

• SSH x 30
• 10 Burpees OYO
• IW x 27
• 9 Burpees OYO
• Low Slow Squats x 24
• 8 Burpees OYO
• Mountain Climbers x 21
• 7 Burpees OYO
• Peter Parkers x 18
• 6 Burpees OYO
• Slow Merkins x 15
• 5 Burpees OYO
• Heels to Heaven x 12
• 4 Burpees OYO
• Slow Wide Arm Merkins x 9
• 3 Burpees OYO
• J-Lo x 6
• 2 Burpees OYO
• Slow Diamond Merkins x 3
• 1 Burpee OYO

Mosey over to the large rock pile closer to Hwy 51 and grab a friendly running rock.  Mosey back to the parking lot while holding the rock above your head.  Partner Up.

• Partner 1 – run clockwise around the building with rock
• Partner 2 – run counterclockwise around the building with rock
• Meet in the middle for 10 handslap merkins and return back to the parking lot with rock
• Plank to wait for the six and do some more J-Lo’s for good measure
• Partners swap rocks and repeat the run and hand slap merkins
• A bunch of crazy Mary led by McGee (dude would have gone on for another 30 minutes had I not cut him off)

Return rocks to rock pile and head over to Hot Box.

• Partner 1 – 20 dips, 20 derkins, 20 jump ups
• Partner 2 – run out to the second light post (D2) and back
• Flap Jack and Repeat for a second round
• People’s Chair while we wait for the six, then hold for a minute with heels off the ground

Mosey back to parking lot next to where we park the cars and line up in 2 lines (harder than it sounds apparently). Since it is opening weekend in college football, what better way to commemorate than to do some traditional football camp up/downs.  Of course we replaced the regular up and downs with burpees.  High knees until YHC calls out a number.  Then pax do that many burpees.  Take a break with a jailbreak across the parking lot and back.  Repeat for another few minutes.  Another jailbreak, then back to the cars.

Circle up for a minute of Freddie Mercuries x 20.  Abrupt stop right at 0800.  That’s all.

Total # of burpees on the day: 75

Total Mileage: 2.9 without leaving campus

Ye Naked Moleskinnith:

I was scheduled to Q Day Zero this week when I was forwarded an email from Gummy begging us to join them and Ascent/Olympus for a convergence at The Rock.  I figured that would be fine, I don’t mind passing the buck a week out from BRR.  Then Gummy went on to say that he doesn’t have a Q, so being the nice person that I am volunteered to Q the convergence.  It was later that I realized it has been a few months since I Q’d a bootcamp due to all the BRR running we’ve been doing.  I normally just hide in the back at the bootcamps that I’ve been to and only do about half the merkins and burpees as called (that may be true for year round as well).  There was no hiding today, so my horrendous merkin form was on full display today.  Good news is I wasn’t alone.  It’ll be back to merkin mania in 2 weeks for everyone.

I wanted to make today a solid workout for all since these are 3 very different groups.  Some rock carrying for Ascent/Olympus, burpees for McGee of Day Zero, and running for The Rock.  Great stuff from everyone out there today.  It was fun being with a large group of guys that I don’t see very often.  Some of you I hadn’t seen in a while and some I don’t think I’ve ever met.  The opening COP took about 20 minutes and certainly allowed for plenty of mumblechatter.  Gummy, per usual, did more talking than he did burpees.  Lots of gripes about the J-Los and all forms of slow merkins.  More calls for Imperial Walkers throughout the morning.  The people’s chair with heels in the air got the legs shaking real early into it.  I hope everyone was able to enjoy that as it was hard to see anyone as we were all wrapped around the hotbox.

I was so focused the entire hour of staying out front and alive, I really did not have much time for any observations.  So feel free to chime in below on what you saw out there today…other than my merkin form or lack there of.  Thanks to Alf for the takeout and to Gummy and Hopper for allowing me to lead today.  Good luck to everyone this week at the BRR.  See you all on the mountain!

Announcements:

• Convergence Labor Day Monday – 7am at Stonecrest…maybe
• Probable convergence next Saturday due to BRR
• October 22nd – Southern Discomfort
• October 8th at The Rock 7am – Kettle Bell Clinic with Byron