The Murph and a Dog Walk?

The Murph and a Dog Walk?

The Saturday of a holiday weekend left me wondering about numbers, but YHC planned a solid beatdown regardless of how many resisted the fartsack.  To honor those who gave their all for our country, a modified version of The Murph was planned.  I arrived at the AO 30 min early to scope out mileage options.  I normally don’t plant the shovel flag that early, but decided to this AM.  Good thing I did, because it kept site FNG, High Tide, from riding all around the Sun Valley school campus. #lessonlearned.  At 06:55, it was YHC, High Tide, eHarmony, and with 2 minutes to spare, The Count rolled in.  The disclaimer was given and we were off…

Run .5 miles to SV Elementary School & circle up for COP.  YHC made the comment that any late comers would never find us down at the Elem School……

SSH X 20 IC

IW X 20 IC

LSS X 20 IC

Merkin X 10 IC

We gathered at the playground to perform a modified version of The Murph – 10 pull ups, 20 Merkins, 30 squats, run a lap.  Rinse & repeat OYO for 10 rounds or until time is called.  At some point duing the first round, Shake & Bake appeared and then Bullwinkle emerged.  Everyone completed somewhere between 7-10 rounds before time was called, and we had to head back to the Middle School parking lot.  To get there, we did an Indian Run to the entrance, shuffle left to next entrance, Right turn on gravel road & shuffle right to the storage shed.  The right shuffle was a little longer than the left (the PAX let me know), so we evened things up with another shuffle left to the stairs.  Calf raises on the stairs – toes straight X 25, toes out X 25, toes in X 25 then slow mosey back to the cars for 4 MOM.

4 MOM

LBC X 20 IC

Flultter X 20 IC

Pretzel Crunch X 10 IC each side

Upon completion of the hour, we discussed that The Murph was in honor of a unique traditional workout that was named after Lt Michael P. Murphy who was killed in action on June 28, 2005 but that it honored all who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our great country.  After COT we played Taps to show our respect.

The Moleskin

Sweat was pouring, music was blasting, and the gang who showed this AM really gave it their all this AM.  We had a couple of casual observers throughout our beat down.  A couple of ladies were on the school yard exercising their Labrador Retrievers by playing fetch.  Somehow, High Tide even ran a lap with one.  Not sure how that happened, but I looked up and he was running around the track holding the dog’s leash? #whorescuedwho  When we finished our campus tour and returned to the middle school parking lot, the principal and 2 other men were sitting on the benches.  We ignored them and did our Mary.  The coolest thing happened when we played Taps, they all stood and saluted the flag for the duration of the song.

Announcements

Lots of 5K events on Monday

Union County Convergence next Saturday, June 3

F3 Dads starts Saturday, June 3

It’s always an honor and a privilege to lead.  Thanks for the opportunity