I never thought “The Deep” would refer to the pre-AO pile made near a tree or the trouble Handshake’s shorts were in during the 5 minutes of Mary.
Between the two events, ten warriors helped kick off the new AO on a beautiful cool Monday morning. We met in the front lot and then moseyed to the bus loop. We did half a lap and then circled up in the middle to the loop. After the typical “the grass is wet” bitching, we warmed up with SSH, Ukrainian Soldiers, IW, Copperhead Squats, Helicopters and then we got on our six and then got up again (groans) and moseyed to your mom’s favorite part: lots of thick polls. We had fun with poll smokers while the first smoker did bear crawls past the next nine smokers. There were enough polls for everyone to do bear crawls twice. That was fun?
We then ran past the front of the school to the far corner and did 11’s on the hill: HRM and Jump squats, starting with ten HRM at the bottom and then jump squats at the sidewalk at the end of the hill. There is a small obstacle in the middle of the hill that we learned to run around.
It was then time for a history lesson. We ran past the front of the school, took a left on Gayton Hills and found the original Nuckols Farm site. Formerly known as Locust Grove, the property was home to the Nuckols family from 1849 to 1972. While surrounded by newer neighborhoods, the county has made this a protected park. Hard to see it all in the darkness but we explored it with a triple check of WWII, Burpees and touch a tree. While the grass had some dips and branches, we all survived.
We then moseyed back to the flag for 5 minutes of Mary: flutters, freddies, lbcs, hammers and crunchy frogs. Handshake then sprinted to his car which added to the 1.7 miles of territory we covered this morning.
Thanks for coming out for the first 5:30AM workout at the Deep. Hope to see you again in the future.
Announcements:
10 year on 20th/21st. Events Friday night (Snuffs) and Saturday. See slack for details.
Breaking Bread has an opening this month. Talk to Oyster to help out.
Tomorrow 9/10, lunch at Fireman Ed’s (Firehouse Subs). A Jets victory night will make Fireman Ed happier than he was after the Spiders football no-show on Saturday.
Heist is leading at the Bridge this weekend. 6AM clown car at the Westchester Commons Wawa. Reach out to him if you can make it.