3 Chilly Miles of Enjoyment

3 Chilly Miles of Enjoyment

On a chilly Wednesday morning, 13 PAX made the journey to Death Valley to get their day started right.  Although there were some new faces to me, apparently no FNG’s so a vague disclaimer was given and we got started on what would be a solid 45 minutes of pure enjoyment.

The Thang:

Mosey to the opposite end of the parking lot and circle up

• Seal Jacks X 20
• 5 Burpees OYO
• Monkey Humpers X 20
• 5 Burpees OYO
• Mountain Climber X 20
• 5 Burpees OYO

Head down Strawberry Lane and right on 51 up to the soccer field/business park at the C/O of 51 and Raintree (a little over 3/4 of a mile).  Partner up in the parking lot of the oddly located business complex.

• Partner 1 runs up the stairs to the top and across to the other side and back down the stairs while partner 2 does a named exercise and flap jack.  4 Rounds:
  • Round #1 – Spider Man Merkin
  • Round #2 – Plank Jack
  • Round #3 – Bear Crawl
  • Round #4 – Diamond Merkins

Mosey to the small parking lot at the soccer fields for some quick Mary:

• American Hammer X 20
• Flutter X 20
• LBC X 20

Head into the soccer area for additional partner work:

Partner 1 runs the length of the field while Partner 2 does a named exercise on the benches (flap jack)

• Dips
• Skull crushers
• Derkins

Mosey back to AO for 2 sets of suicides between the 4 basketball goals.

That’s a wrap.

The Skin:

Got tapped by Semi Gloss yesterday asking if I could Q this morning.  Truth be told, the timing wasn’t ideal for me but Gloss was putting some rhetoric out there about a bad knee or something so I told him that I would do it but didn’t promise a ton of originality.  My goal was to get off campus as those usually seem to be workouts that sit well with the PAX.  I also wanted to try and incorporate some exercises that I haven’t seen in a while during a post and they were met with mixed reactions…and some giggling.  With the weather cooling off its always hard to know how many people are going to show up.  I was glad to see that 13 made it out of the sack on the 42 degree morning.  Spackler has deemed it beanie season and Bubbly had an entire sweatsuit on.  Gloss looked like the Unabomber with some discreet solid black sweatshirt zipped up to his forehead and the hood up.

The COP started with the Seal Jack (basically a jumping jack but your hands in front of you as opposed to overhead).  I heard giggling, saw some people looking at others trying to figure out what was going on and even someone say “this takes a lot of coordination”.  It really doesn’t.  I tossed in the burpees just to see what Spacker would modify to.  He modified to standing there.  Nice job.  Skull crushers were not as well known to the PAX as I thought they would be.  Same goes for the Spider Man push up.

With some new faces in the crowd I started second guessing my plan to run down to the park area on Raintree but decided to roll the dice.  Everyone pushed hard.  Ringer and Dollywood had the lead the entire time.  But in all honesty, they do have the fountain of youth on their side.  Bubbly was crushing it and Jello fought through it and finished solid.  Nice work, man.  Keep it up.  It only gets easier.  Great to see Strawberry out there.  He fessed up that he hasn’t a good attendance record for the past month and blamed it on a case of the sniffles and overall laziness.  We’ve all been there, Strawberry.  I’m glad to see you took care of your leaky beak.  Dumpster Fire continues to crush this workout and glad to see you becoming a regular.  Great to see the Hydra site Q’s out there.  Puddin’ did confirm that he only wears long sleaves when the temperature dips into the low 30’s.  Bug and Deep Dish put out there usual strong performance.

By my count, we covered 3.1 miles, took approximately 5600 steps, and burned 430 calories.  The  goal was to incorporate some running, stairs, and hit the major body parts.  I hope you boys felt it was worth your time.

I see that Dolly has left me off the upcoming Q schedule.  Not sure if that is a reflection of my recent Q’s he has attended or just an oversight.  Time will tell I guess.

Announcements:

• Register for the holiday party
• Joe Davis run
• New AO opening in Pineville on November 14th.  Boot camp style.  I believe the location was the Pineville Police Department parking lot (Dumpster Fire has additional details).