The Hills of Point Carpenter

  • When:08/27/2020
  • QIC: Brexit


The Hills of Point Carpenter

PAX – Happy Meal, Eat More Chicken, Soft Pretzel, Atlas, FNG Periscope, Brexit

YHC hasn’t been posting much since the birth of 2.2 (third boy) and renovating / moving into a house big enough for this larger family. When YHC does post its pretty much only Thursdays at Arsenal, and the occasional Friday at Brave. It’s always good to see The Arsenal regulars, but what’s this? An unknown vehicle pulls up and it’s an FNG. Later named Periscope, we’re told he found us on the website after a co-worker told him to check us out. Great stuff, let’s make this a fun one! Disclaimer given and we’re off.

Warmup

Mosey around the school, taking the route for the hilly pre-run. This is called foreshadowing. Take a break on the back side of the school for

  • 10 x SSH
  • 10 x IW
  • 10 x LSS
  • 25 x Moroccan Night Clubs

Continue the hilly pre-run path, just waiting for Atlas to call me out on it. Surprisingly, he either didn’t realize we were going there, or he was busy mumble chattering with the other PAX until we were crossing the road into the neighborhood. Too late! No turning back now, mwahaha!

The Thang

Lately, I’ve found that the simpler the Wienke the better. If I can recap it in a sentence it’s a good one. Here’s this Q’s sentence – “Do triple nickels on the hilly run until time”. Can’t get much simpler than that.

  • First hill – burpees and squats
  • Second hill – bomb jacks and LBCs
  • Third hill – damn, not enough time for a third hill, but still over 15 minutes

Turn around and use a little trick I learned at a Thin Mint Brave Q – sprint up the hills, recover down them. This might have been a little aggressive. I forget how serious these hills areā€¦ not your average Murderhorn (pat on my own back for a NoE dig #ThursdayAOs). Everyone managed to make it back to ILES in one piece though. PAX then use the wall in front of the school to monkey over and do five merkins on each side, eight walls and forty merkins by the end of it. We’re nearing time now so one more lap around the parking lot and a few minutes of Mary and plank until time.

COT, Announcements, FNG Naming

  • Virtual marathon in the works to appease all these runners with cancelled events. Personally, I was going to do Ragnar but am perfectly fine to slack off instead. Good on all you PAX who so want to hurt yourself that you’ll organize your own event.
  • Blood Drive 10/17 – sign up
  • Welcome FNG, Periscope!
  • Thanks, Soft Pretzel for taking us out

Moleskin

  • It was hot and muggy. The shirt quickly became a weight vest to make the workout that much harder
  • I must reiterate – those hills are the real deal. 2 triple nickels and sprinting them back was torturous. My body was hating me for the rest of the day.
  • Great work by Happy Meal’s 2.0 Eat More Chicken. He was leading the PAX with his pops and did an excellent job counting some Mary.
  • Soft Pretzel had a Q a couple of months back where he took us out to the hills for some resistance running. If anyone wants to blame someone for the idea, I got it from him.
  • Atlas continues to crush the pre-run. YHC does plan to get back out for that soon, once the move is over and the new baby is sleeping more.
  • Strong work by Periscope for his first gloom workout. He not only hung with the workout, but also the mumblechatter.

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