Better Together

Better Together

17 gathered in the very chilly gloom and YHC attempted to show the 1st F virtues of togetherness.  Here is how it went:

Mosey to the Burton’s parking lot and try to forget the fact that we lost half the PAX crossing the road.  My bad.

Warm up: 30 SSH, 20 IW, 10 MNC, 15 LSS all IC and finish with five “up downs.”

Next part was a bit of an experiment.  PAX were advised to keep up to the best of their ability as YHC ran… slow at first, increasing speeds steadily and going ~200-800 meters each time in random directions around the shopping center.  We did four rounds and each time finished with Mary.  1) 20 big boi sit ups, 20 AH IC, 10 pistol crunches IC; 2) 20 Freddie Mercury, 10 side crunches each side, 10 LBCs all IC; 3) 10 dollies IC, hold 6 inches while *YHC gives a speech for like 2 minutes*, 30 flutters IC, 4) elbow plank until the six arrive.

*My speech was on the benefits of running together.  I told the story of Makeshift Marathon, when Tiger Rag ran the half with me and pushed me to a pace that was about 20 sec/mile better than my last race.  Sometimes I try to duplicate that pace on my own now and I fail miserably.  It’s a miracle really… how much more we can do together than apart.

Special call outs for Mic Check and Rousey for pushing up front and big time respect for Big Ben – the guy gave it his all and kept pace much of the way!

Next legs.  20 squats IC, lunge walk 30-40 lunges, 10 single leg Romanian dead lifts per leg, about 75 speed skaters IC because nobody was counting during the cadence, 10 broad jumps, backward lunge walk 30-40 lunges.

Mosey to the neighborhood behind the shopping center and gather at the entrance.  YHC completely misuses the word “permutation” in an effort to explain what we’re doing next, which is this: increasing number of merkins at each driveway until no PAX can do the prescribed number of reps.  We made it to 14 with Rousey taking the title of last man to tap out.  So that’s 105 merkins on the way up if you did them all.  Can’t say where everybody came in but hopefully we all got as many as we could.  Mic Check was of course hammering them and One Star as well.  The way back down the ladder was a bit of an S Show as cars and barking dogs kind of chased us off course.  We regrouped though and I would estimate another 50-60 merkins at least.

Run backwards up the hill to the rock pile and grab a rock.  OH presses and tricep extensions until the six arrive.  Then the PAX split up with half going up the hill for 3 sets of pull ups and squats, the other half staying and alternating curls and squats.  Awesome job by T1000 banging out the pull ups!  Then finish off with another three rounds of alternating OH Press and Tricep Ext.

Run back to COT with stops along the way to gather PAX.  20 peter parkers IC, then AYG dips at the fountains.  One minute late for COT.

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