Just go until it gets wet!

Just go until it gets wet!

4 real men (arguably dumb men) decided to show up to The Matrix this morning during one nasty rain storm.  With a shovel flag firmly planted in Poptart’s backseat, without any disclaimer despite the treacherous conditions, and the rain continuing to get harder, we took off right at 0530.  Here is what we did:

Mosey down to the lower lot for a quick lap and head back up the main drive to grab O’Tannenbaum.  Run in front of the school and into the main teacher’s lot to circle/triangle/square up.

COP:

• SSH x 20
• Imperial Walkers x 20
• Low Slow Merkin x 15
• Low Slow Squat x 15

Mosey over to playground.

Reverse 3 Exercise ladder:

• 10 pullups, 10 burpees, 10 Romanian deadlifts (10 right leg, 10 left leg)
• 9, 9, 9…..down to 1, 1, 1 of each
• 55 reps of each exercise total

Mosey over to covered area in front of school:

• People’s Chair w/ air presses x 100
• Bear crawl to the end of covered area (or until it gets wet) and back
• 1 minute of elbow plank
• various mary exercises
• People’s Chair w/ air presses x 100
• Bear crawl to the end of covered area (or until it gets wet) and back
• 1 minute of elbow plank
• merkins x 15
• LBC x 15
• wide arm merkin x 10
• Flutter x 15
• diamond merkin x 5
• Dolly x 15
• 10 burpees OYO

Mosey back to the cars and call it a morning.

Ye Wet Moleskin:

This was a morning to sleep in. Honestly, when I started F3 over 3 years ago I loved these kinds of mornings.  There was something about working out in a downpour that was exhilarating. Somewhere in the last couple years that changed and turning the alarm off when hearing the rain outside became the norm.  Only reason I was coming this morning was because I was scheduled to Q.  On my drive over, I kept thinking/hoping nobody would show and I would just turn around and go home and back to bed.  As I’m driving down McKee I see a set of headlights in the parking lot.  Thinking, let’s put my sales career to test (since I’m in the booze business, do I actually do much selling?) and see if I can talk this fellow into saying we did but we didn’t kinda thing.  I pull in next to Pop Tart and we just kinda look at each other.  I’m hoping he’s reading my mind about bailing.  Nope, he just jumped out of the car and is standing outside…in the rain.  Then Madison pulls in too.  Great.  Can’t quit now.  In the midst of the torrential rain, I don’t hear Madison claim that he can be talked out of this workout.  Damn, that was my chance!  Okay…let’s mosey.  As we came back up the driveway, we see OT standing out in his yellow poncho looking around for us.  Had we been any later he claims he would have headed straight for the covered area thinking we would be there.  And by that he probably meant back into his car before he is seen.

Having the small group forced us to keep each other accountable and put some hard work into each exercise.  Madison thought he saw lightening early on.  We think it was just a light turning on.  Those can be tricky.  Later we did see a couple of big flashes, but with the accompanying booms, it was clearly transformers blowing up.  Hope they got that power back on for those unfortunate few. OT started to shortcut the counting on the second round of air presses by only counting single digits after 20, but then confused himself, and me, so we all had to count the rest of the way.  When we were bear crawling, I gave the order to crawl to the end and come back.  Madison quickly asked if it was to the end of the covered area or to the end of the sidewalk, to which YHC replied “just go until it gets wet!”.  Take that as you please.

Overall, really strong efforts out there this morning by all 4 of us veterans. Honestly, I am happy you guys showed up and forced me to do this workout in the rain.  It was a lot of fun and I’m glad I did it.  I still will probably turn my alarm off next time though. Until then…

Pro

Announcements:

• It’s wet.  No announcements.