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Back to School

7 men kicked off their Cinco de Mayo celebrations with a trip down memory lane and took it back to high school.  We were joined later by additional revelers, but more on that later. Here’s what went down.

The Thang

Left launch at CFA and moseyed over to the playground at Blakeney for COP.  There we circled up and numbered off 1’s and 2’s.

15 SSH and 15 IW’s in cadence

1’s hit the bars for 10 overhand pull ups while 2’s did 10 merkins

Back in circle for 12 Peter Parkers

2’s hit the bars for 10 overhand pull ups while 1’s did 10 merkins

12 Mtn Climbers

1’s 10 pull ups and 2’s 10 merkins

12 Parker Peters

2’s 10 pull ups and 1’s 10 merkins

All warmed up we moseyed down Ardrey Kell swinging behind the Amazing Lash Studio, not to make our lashes amazing but rather to make our upper bodies amazing.  Partnered up with 1 lifting rock between.  In total partners were to get 100 curls, 100 overhead presses and 100 tricep extensions.  P1 does lifting exercise while P2 runs to mailbox at end of parking lot, does 10 wide arm merkins and back.  Flapjack until all totals are hit.

This was knocked out no problem so we continued down Ardrey Kell stopping at a guard rail for some wall..er rail sit.  We grabbed some rail and did civilian count 55 presses in honor of May 5th.  Continued on until we got to Ardrey Kell High.

Since the trip was a little on the longer side we hit our six on the grass and did some called Mary by the various PAX: dying cockroach (Escobar’s favorite), box cutters, Freddy Mercury.  On our feet and over to the circle courtyard at AKH.  Partner back up for a total of 100 dips, 50 derkins and 50 incline merkins.  P1 does called exercise while P2 runs a lap around the courtyard and then flapjack until totals are hit.  After we finished this I remembered an exercise that I wanted to do after Mary so moved back to the grassy area for a round of bear crawl banjo.  The way this banjo is played is the PAX circle up in plank facing outwards.  First out of the gate does 3 merkins and then bear crawls around outside of circle.  Once the guy to your left starts bear crawling you do 3 merkins and bear crawl out trying to catch the guy(s) in front of you.  If you get passed then down for a merkin.  This continues around the circle until everyone has gone and back to their starting spot in plank.  Oh and while planking you have to do 1 merkin every time someone bear crawls in front of you.  The guys did a great job with this one.  It was sucky enough with 7 guys but is a real smoker when you have about 20+ PAX and a large circle.

Moseyed back to launch stopping at our guard rail for another rail sit with 55 overhead presses (this one I felt much more than the one heading to AKH). Continuing on down Ardrey Kell we stopped at a light for merkins while the six caught up.  Got to launch with a couple minutes to spare so hit our six for a final Mary of Rosalita x15 IC and frogstomp x15 IC.  COT and announcements.

Moleskin

Great work this morning by the group.  My goal was to go with a good final landing spot in AKH with some pain stations in between that would really focus on the upper body (think very, very mini Southern Discomfort).  I think that I heard that we got in 4 miles in which was more than I planned for or expected seeing as when I measured from Blakeney to AKH it was about 1.2 miles.  But with the running during exercises it came out to about 4.  Thanks to all for really busting it because we had to keep it moving in order to get it all in an hour.  Hopefully after posting you felt that you could enjoy Cinco de Mayo and all the food and drink guilt free.  Special thanks to Mighty Mite for the history lesson on Cinco de Mayo and that it is not actually the Mexican Independence Day.  Rather it celebrates a Mexican defeat of France in battle.  Either way its a good reason to celebrate in May.

Once we got back to launch we noticed that there was a group of F3 runners that had just finished up.  Ed note; I guess runners at Bagpipe are Swifters then these guys at Davinci are Drifters?  Anyway we folded in with them for COT and announcements.

Announcements

  • Bring a FNG day at Cerberus May 11th.  5:30 at Waverly.
  • F3 dads starting up June 9th.  9:00 at the Bull Ring.
  • Savage Race May 19th

Thanks to Bucky and Fredo for the opportunity to lead.

 

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