3 is the magic number

3 is the magic number

A bit of a dreary morning at the OG AO of Area 51.  No shovel flag in sight.  No sight Q to be found.  No pax to be found.  Clock strikes 0700 and this Q is ready to head back to the house and get back in the fartsack when 2 cars come out of nowhere at 0701.  I guess we gotta do this thing.  3 seasoned vets put in some work and some miles for 57 or so minutes.  Here’s how it went…

Skipping any real warmup, disclaimer, and COP we headed off campus for a little field trip to the local neighborhood.  Run down McKee to the firestation and cross the street onto South Hall.  Head down to Derbyshire Dr for a quick set of SSH x 15 or so.

Round of 7’s on Derbyshire – Jumpsquats at the bottom & Merkins at the top/end at the cul de sac.

Head back up South Hall stopping at each street to do merkins x 10.

Back to campus and stop at YHC’s car.  Grab 3 40lb sandbags.

• People’s Chair – go low enough for the sandbag to sit on your lap without holding it x 30 seconds
• Overhead press w/ sandbag x 15 IC
• People’s Chair again

Move to parking lot. Drop sandbags in middle of parking lot half way between cones and playground.

• At cones = 15 merkins
• At sandbags = 10 squats w/ bags
• At playground = 10/5 pullups
• Repeat x 5

Move under cover as the rain started to come down at the end.

• LBC x 25
• Flu–er x somewhere between 15 & 25

All done. Total miles = 4.5

Moleskinny

As stated above, the clock struck 0700 and I was just about positive nobody was showing up.  Then Joker and O’Tannenbaum roll in right at 0701.  Of course we had to take a couple minutes of mumblechattering so we launched around 0703ish.  I figured nobody else was showing up, so we went straight for the field trip instead of sticking around for a warm up.

OT was feeling a little rough this morning after a long night of exploring the beer menu at Vintner’s and dealing with some overly served elderly women at the Cinebarre.  May not have been the best day to throw in around 4.5 miles of running today, but he took it like a champ.

Joker was his usual self filled with a lot of gas and releasing quite frequently.  I mean he farted A LOT.  As OT said though, that is the best part of F3.  Just glad he was wearing his dark colored full length tights under his shorts.

The sandbags were heavier than I remember and they sucked.  Glad we didn’t take them with us on the field trip.

Both OT and Joker are jealous of my beard.  Joker might be renamed patches because he is going bald on his face.  OT just comes in total grey, so he keeps it clean shaven.  Smart.  What’s it like being old? Speaking of, OT still goes to twitter.com to find out what’s happening with F3.  No account needed.

Thanks for showing up this morning, gentlemen.  I didn’t need that extra hour of sleep anyway.

-Pro