It’s good to keep the Pax guessing. Are we running? How far? NOT today! To Dumar’s delight, the longest run was the opening mosey.
Light jog over to the bus lane and back. Stretch-focused warm up to get the legs and back ready for the beatdown.
The THING 1 – split in two teams, each team has one sandbag. Starting from a parking spot, person 1 carries the sandbag to the next parking spot and drops it, runs back. Person 2 runs to the bag, picks it up and bring it back to the start. Person 3 carries the sandbag one parking space further. Rinse and repeat until you get to the end of the parking lot. Sprinkle in 5 merkins each time you go
The THING 2 – EMOM
YHC cranked up the tunes and started the timer. 1 minute on the clock, plenty of time to pick up a cinder block and do 1 Goblet Squat, 1 Kettlebell Swing, 1 Monkey Humper, and run to the tree and back. Rest up, because the sauce gets saucier. Minute 2 – 2 reps of each. Minute 3 – 3 reps of each, and we keep going until we can’t.
Around Minute 8, YHC noticed the Pax was very quiet. I looked at Rudy and saw his hat was off and the sweat was pouring. He mustered enough breath to say “It’s spicy now”. Muy caliente!
Futon, our defending champion from the last EMOM, remains the king of the EMOM hill with an impressive 18x reps in a minute. The rest of us reset to 11x and jumped back in until we hit 25 minute mark.
The THING 3 – Sandbaggin Tic Tac Toe
An improvised Tic Tac Toe board was created in the parking lot and we split into two squads. Cinder Block vs Sandbags. Pick a person to start for each team. on GO, do 5 merkins & 1 Burpee (or 1 burpee into 5 merkins for efficiency) then grab your coupon and run to the tic tac toe board. first person there gets to pick their square and drop their coupon. Run back to the group and tag in the next person, they do 5 merkins/1 burpee, grab their coupon and head to the board. Get Tic Tac Toe to win, losing team does 5 burpees.
Team Sandbaggin’ got off to a quick start, capturing the first two games. Hard to say if Team Cinder Block couldn’t visualize the board, or if they forgot how to play tic tac toe…Match 3 for all the marbles, winner takes all, went to team Cinder Block thanks to Hermey improvising the rules on the fly, tossing sandbags out of his way, and claiming victory for his team. Futon will review the CCTV Footage and rule if this was a legal maneuver or not. May have to run it back and settle this fair and square…
COT – announcements and prayers. Safety with the storm today and prayers for DTH and his family on their journey. My legs are tired, I need to go find some Biofreeze. Until next time!
