Fix the glitch

Fix the glitch

Two wrongs, don’t make a right.

That’s an important lesson, and one that YHC, and several others, learned (again) this morning.  As shown here and mentioned here, there were no merkins at DMZ yesterday.  Bushwood was angrily texting me, accusing me of turning DMZ into Fast Twitch.  We had rocks out, trust me that was not the intention (parenthetical:  I am encouraged that today Frasier tried to inject a modicum of legitimacy  to the “slash” #running/bootcamp).  But I digress….the plan today was to “fix the glitch” of yesterday’s omission with a focus on upper body without forgetting the core:

Thang

Run the Chadwyck Chaser “mile” (technically only 0.9 per Strava).

Behind the school, three stations:

1. Playground – 10 pull ups
2. Concession stand – Cornucopia of merkins™:  10 incline, 10 decline, 10 wide arms, 10 diamonds
3. Football field – 20 knee ups, 20 Russian Twists (each side)

Continue running from station to station, stopping at each for exercises (roughly 0.25 mi RT).  Repeat until 6:06, and run the Chadwyck Chaser “mile” again.

Announcements

• Ragnar – couple teams still looking for a final runner for great event on 10/7
• Southern Discomfort coming up on 10/22 – finishing at Olde Providence
• Church on the Street – great chance to serve the Charlotte’s homeless population

Moleskine

First sentence sums it up.  That was a bad idea (FYI the included awful youtube clip is the top result on google – awful enough to share).  Incline merkins, generally considered the easiest of the lot, hurt.  Several conveniently misunderstood that the concession area was like “GO” in Monopoly, don’t pass it without paying the toll (merkins today).  By the way, Lee apparently applied for all trademarks of “Cornucopia” followed by an exercise name yesterday, and yes, I checked – even Monkey Humpers.

Believe that most folks completed 3-5 sets, though I would venture a guess that the merkin total for all was +/- 250 with 3+ miles.  Swiper and Cold Cuts began deliberately skipping them, opting for pull ups…and they never actually reached the football field (demarcated by white lines, quite visible in the moonlight).  Sundancer made a surprise appearance, lamented not milking the initial mile for more time, skipped the final mile, and used post-COT to show off what was described as his “mangina” #MereFleshWound.  He tended to stay in a corner of the concession area, doing his own thing #freeplay.  No tunes, but nonetheless, he livened up the discussion.

Deep Dish was quiet but took his time and focused on form #TWSS.  Kind of the anti-Gummy, if you will.  Hammer and Jamboree were likewise knocking it out with no complaints.  One Eye, Talkbox, and YHC complained about yesterday’s rock squats, though only YHC seemed to be moving a little slower today as a result.  Still, 6:52 on the initial run, so not terrible.  Almost forgot, had a Bugeater sighting on the initial mile.  Think he read the pre-blast.

Back at it next week as Cold Cuts takes the reigns.  Will there be pull ups?

• Kirk