You usually don’t see a message at 5am that says “doesn’t look like rain, can someone substi-Q for me?” But Brutus probably fell asleep in his raffle winning recliner and was too comfortable to get up, then again maybe he was helping with the morning feeding of his daughter. Chicken Little stepped up as usual and said he would take diesel and figure it out. Since we were expecting rain, Mash had already called an audible and we quickly planned to get Diesel to join us. Centerfold shockingly got to five stones early enough to redirect Chicken, O-69 and Popeye over to Cuthbertson HS to meet the regular mashers (Bunyan, Penalty box, Sledge and Mayhem) under the awning and stay dry. At 5:32, figuring it was safe to leave diesel, Centerfold headed to the workout, but little did he know Posse was running even later. Posse was able to get a cinder block and bricks at Five stones and find us at Cutty only a few minutes late.
The thang-
Mayhem leads some warmup. We grab our cinder blocks and bricks, head up the stairs to the covered awning near the gym entrance and get started. We decided to wing it since nobody had a full weinke prepared. We did our ring-around-the-rosie exercise call out with each Pax picking an exercise/body part and calling however many reps they wanted. I can’t remember the exact order or the exact number of reps but we covered the following-
Posse’s Diamond merkin uti/ab medley sucked but he knows how to push guys to work hard. We did 1/4 thru 5/20 on the first pass around the circle and finished rounds 6-10 on the second go around. Thank goodness we didn’t do big boys on rounds 6-10 like we did for 1-5. We accomplished multiple things today. We got a good workout in as usual, and secondly we stayed dry. Not that we are afraid of water, but with Mayhem getting over pneumonia recently, he didn’t want to run the risk of working out in the rain. I’m sure everyone was happy to oblige and find some cover. It’s good to see Mayhem back at it after missing a couple weeks being sick and then on a mission trip.
Can’t remember if we had much in the way of announcements, read another backblast if you want to see them and Centerfold took us out.
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