Pax who posted: Fuze Box, Fruit Loops, Menudo, Chatter Box, Posse, Sledge-o-matic, The Reaper, Das Boot, Von Trapp (FNG), Honeycomb.
10 pax turned out for the Homecoming workout today and it was a perfect day. I brought my speaker and a great playlist with mostly 80’s and 90’s tunes and a few chick songs so that Fuze Box wouldn’t feel left out. He asked me if it was my daughters play list, ha! Both Fruit Loops and the Reaper had told me beforehand that they didn’t want me telling them what to do, so I was a little nervous there might be a Q jack coming, but I didn’t let that stop the planned fun!
We took a mozy around the middle & elementary schools and stopped halfway around for some warm up exercises.
Our first event was the 7 of diamonds. We used the loop in front of the school and stopped at all 4 corners to do an exercise. The first lap was 7 burpees in each corner, 2nd lap was 14 flutter kicks (4 = 1), 3rd lap was 21 merkins, 4th lap was 28 squats.
Next we played a game of pain with a giant wooden dice of pain that I made. Roll the dice for the exercise, pick a card from the deck the the number of reps. For some reason it kept landing on heels to heaven so we did a ton of those. I got accused of having a loaded dice, but at least it wasn’t landing on burpees every time.
The we took a run out to Deal road and around to the football stadium, stopping twice for a round of Aiken Legs. 10 each of squats, bobby hurleys, lunges and smurf jacks. We then did a round of 7’s using the bleacher stairs. Donkey kicks at the top and merkins at the bottom.
Next we headed back to the beginning stopping twice for some more Aiken Legs fun.
We got back with just 30 seconds left for a little Mary.
The 6th man in our circle was Chatter Box and it was good to learn a little more about him. Posse met him at the blood drive a few months ago and invited him to come out, he came the next Monday and has been with us ever since. He got his name because he said his wife’s biggest complaint about him is that he doesn’t talk very much. It’s great to have you Chatter Box! We had one FNG, Ryan Richards who was EH’d by Das Boot. He’s a banker, recently moved to the area with his family and has lived all over the place. We gave him the name “Von Trapp” since he used to live in Switzerland, which is close enough to Austria (Sound of Music fans), so we went with that. He told me, “this is a lot different than riding a Peloton bike.” Yes it is! Great to have you Von Trapp! It was also very good to see the elusive Menudo and The Reaper back out, who we haven’t seen since the Waxhaw launch. Menudo was hoping for a rename since it had been so long since he’s posted, and he went to school with one of the guys from the Menudo band, and is definitely not a fan. Fuze Box had never heard of Menudo so we had to look them up on YouTube at coffeeteria and then it was very clear why Menudo doesn’t like his name. We decided we will just think of Menudo the food, which is intestines, maybe that will be better.
It was a good workout and my watch said we covered 3.18 miles, although we all said it didn’t feel like we ran that far. What an awesome group of men, thanks to everyone for posting today!
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