Stalked By a Curb Cleaner

Stalked By a Curb Cleaner

15 men braved the winter like temps to post at Rebel Yell and get better.  Before we got going it was accurately pointed out that Mic Check looked like a SWAT member with his black weight vest and Happy Meal looked like a robber with his bandana face mask.  I really wish we could have had video of the two of them running put to “Yakety Sax” for a Benny Hill cops and robbers montage.  A proper disclaimer was given and we were off.  We slow moseyed out of the gate as the Briskatica Rafter clown car pulled up as we were launching.  We jogged to the parking lot between HT and Target and got started.  Here is what went down.

The Thing:

Warm up

SSH x 15

4 burpees OYO

IW x 15

4 burpees OYO

Mtn Climbers x 15

Peter Parkers x 15

At this point we began our first game of chicken with a curb cleaner going through the parking lot.  It became obvious that we were in the area he needed to hit and he was not interested in waiting on us.  Since we were warmed up enough YHC decided to blink and let him have his spot.

From here we headed down Rea and hung a left on Ballantyne Commons and into the office complex on the left.  Everyone grab a lifting rock.  Do called exercise, sprint to the boulders for 10 derkins and then bear crawl the parking area with a merkin at every line (10 lines).  Called exercises were first round 20 curls, 2nd round 20 overhead presses and 3rd round 20 tricep lifts.  During the first round a security guard drove near our area…I think that it was Happy Meal’s robber look that raised his suspicion.  Mary Kay graciously volunteered to skip the bear crawl/merkins to move the lifting rocks so that they were not in the road for the security guard.  Thanks for taking one for the team MK.

Next we moseyed over to Uncle Rico Land for some parking deck work.  YHC called 7’s starting with 6 Carolina Dry docks at the bottom, up the stairs, 1 burpee at the top and down the side street.  We finished with 1 CDD at the bottom and 6 burpees at the top.  The first finishers led some Mary waiting for the 6.  We had time for a couple of rounds of Mary and then time to head back to launch.

While heading back to launch YHC overheard Grammatica say that he did Monkey Humpers for the first time at another post.  He said that he really enjoyed them and felt like they were effective at working often overlooked muscles.  Either that or he said they were the dumbest, most awkward looking exercise ever.  Regardless we had 1 minute to kill at launch and filled it with Monkey Humpers in honor of Grammatica.

During Name O Rama and Announcements our curb cleaner friend returned, even though we were at the total opposite end of the shopping center.  Again, he had no intention of waiting for us to finish so my recording of names and announcements is overtaken with machine noises.  Very stalker like tendancies.  Maybe we should have extended an olive branch and invited him to join us for burpees and merkins.

Awseome work by all this morning.  Thanks to the first finishers for leading plank and Mary.  Always a pleasure to get out early in the gloom and lead such a great group.

Announcements:

• Bring children’s clothes and toys to any AO and the site Q’s will get them to Escobar.  There is also a Go Fund Me page on Slack.  Any help to help defer the postage cost to Escobar is appreciated.
• Bring men’s clothes for Church on the Street and the site Q’s will get them to Strawberry.