Birthday Celebration Using Numbers 4 and 9

Birthday Celebration Using Numbers 4 and 9

The Planning

Well today was an great start to Q in 19 degree temperature and to celebrate my 49th birthday! Today officially started the one year count down when during Namarama: I will say “Mike Niro 50 Premature” and everyone will say: Respect. The theme was simple: different ways to use the numbers 4 and 9.

Posse asked me to Q Homecoming since I made the statement “I like to Q” however full transparency I and not a fan of writing BB however I understand the importance. Writing and reading was never my strong point during high school or college. Anyway, back to the BB.

Posse knew I never went to the Homecoming AO so I decided to scope out the sight during the day of Christmas Eve. I found the perfect area to perform the THANG, the running track right next to parking lot. I went home and planned the Wienke using the famous Premature cones that had designated exercises. I texted Posse and told him “We are good to go”. I arrived 20 minutes early to layout the cones and to my surprise, all the gates were locked. Realize, I am walking around in 19-degree weather trying to figure out how to get into the track area. No luck. I drove back to the parking and thank god I saw Gopher and FNG Jamal Brown. Jamal later was named Whack A Mole since he is the brother in-law to Gopher. I asked them to help me create a .25 mile running loop within the parking lot and spread out the cones.

The Warmup

• Mosey around the parking lot .25-mile loop (approximately .25 mile)
• 13 (4 + 9) SSH
• 13 Imperial walkers
• 13 Merkins
• Left and right runners stretch hold each side for 13 seconds

The Thang

The Thang was simple, run and complete six 6 exercises: Heels to Heaven, Merkins, Squats, Big Boy Sit-ups, Mike Tysons, and Lunges 2 is 1.

• PAX broke up into teams of two and selected a starting station
• Each team needed to complete 49 reps at each cone – Partner 1 does 25 reps and partner 2 does 24
• After each exercise, PAX ran around the parking lot loop twice to get approximately .49 miles
• PAX circle up in the middle after the run to perform 4, then 9, then 13 Burpees
• Once all six exercises were complete, we started round two except this time after each run the PAX performed exercise waves of  Merkins, Burpees, LBC, and American Hammers. Each wave was 49 reps
• As soon as the second round started Carb Load, Shop Dog, and Sugar Daddy came from Blackhawk AO to celebrate my birthday since they were the only three
• I was running with Carb Load and he stated “Thank god we came 20 minutes late!”
• The PAX running range was between 3.5 – 4.0 miles in a small parking lot. Fuse said, Impressive!

Everyone pushed it today and got in a good workout to start my birthday and coming off Christmas Holiday. Great job!

Announcements

6^th guy – Coco Crisp from Raleigh – awesome job lost 50 lbs. and just completed a full marathon

Welcome FNG – Jamal Brown (Whack A Mole)

Blood Drive Jan 30