After a few months away, I am back on the Q circuit. My Garmin app is still calling me “unproductive” but hopefully not for long.
On a warm Monday morning, seven West End warriors came to the Deep and patiently dealt with my bad ideas. We started with a mosey past the bus pickup and to the back of the school. We stopped at the loading dock area where is it is a nice slanted bumpy concrete and rocky slab-first bad idea. Perfect for warmups. We did some SSH, Ukrainian Soldiers, DQs, Helicopters got on our six for some LBCs and Flutters. With Spring Break I thought we had the place to ourselves and then the car lights started getting closer and our warmups were over.
We moseyed to the blacktop and did 4 corners together: 10 HRM, Bear crawl, 20 Jump Squats, Run, 30 two count Hammers, Bear crawl, 40 SSH, run to the start. After making sure the Pax knew the 4 exercises we challenged our minds with what I am calling 4 corner 40. Bad Idea #2–using math. Pick any of the four exercises that add up to 40 and go the appropriate corner(s) then come back to the start. We then did 50 and then I realized some people were just picking any count they wanted of each exercise. After mansplaining that the count had to be the same as the beginning (10HRM in corner 1, 20 Jump Squats in corner 2, etc) we redid 50 and then did 60,70,80,90 and then did the initial route again with the bear crawls for 100. Total of 640 of some choose your own adventure combination of HRM, Jump Squats, Hammers and SSH.
Next bad idea: from the edge of the blacktop near the school, crab walk forward down the hill. “Impossible” they say. All seven did it fine, no one fell; should be the only way down the hill from now on.
Bad idea #4: Mosey to the big hill and run up and all the way to sidewalk for 20 WW2, run back down. Do this 3 times.
Last bad idea: Mosey to the flag and test our coordination. Circle up and do Copperhead Squats but don’t start until after the person next to you starts. A Copperhead Squat wave started and after going around twice I had to stop it. It was bad. Then we tried going the other direction and it looked good for about 2 seconds and then it crashed and burned. Had more time for the flutters and heals to heaven and it was time.
Attila took us out with prayers for Roger Roger and his family, Fireman Ed and all Pax needing prayers.
Happy to be back out and looking forward to being “productive”