Come out to Heartbreak, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…
Sixteen warriors came out to Heartbreak Ridge and most regret it. According to Argyle the former limo driver and now Quioccasin Middle bus driver, it went something like this:
Warmups behind the goalposts of SSH, Ukrainian Soldiers, Helicopters, Arm Circles, Flutters and LBCS. A couple stragglers come in during warmup. Welcome to the party pal!
Head to base of the hill. Ten up and downs on your own. Pax are already tired of this routine. I think I heard someone grumble at the top: Oh, you’re in charge? Well, I got some bad news for you *Whitesnake*, from up here it doesn’t look like you’re in charge of jack shit. (10 hill climbs)
Partner up. Try to find a partner who saw too many movies as a child. Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he’s John Wayne, Rambo, Marshal Dillon. One runs and the other does an exercise, switch. Box cutters, Overhead claps, Merkins, Burpees, Squats. (BOMBS) (15)
Time to sneak through an air duct. Bear crawl up the hill, run back. Two times. I’m just a fly in the ointment, The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the ass. (17)
Find a new partner. Bombs made out of C4 so four C exercises: Calf Raises, reverse Crunches, Carolina drydocks, a lbCs. (21).
I could tell it was time to do something new. The man is hurting! He is alone, tired, and he hasn’t seen diddly-squat from anybody down here. Why don’t I wake up and smell what I am shoveling? I listen and so we 7’s up and down the hill (of course). HRM at the top and Burpees at the bottom. (28).
Wanting to know what a TV dinner feels like, we do two more airducts (bear crawl up, run back) (30)
5 more flights to go. 5 up and downs on your own. (35)
And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.
But wait, the hostages are on the roof! One more to the top, shoot your machine gun (Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho) to scare the hostages back down the stairs and head back to the flag. “Go fuck yourself Whitesnake” was the mood.
Back at the flag, we had a few minutes for some Mary. Hammers, Heals to Heaven and some stretching ended the morning. Wasn’t that fun?
Announcements: The Bridge this Saturday, Upchuck leading and reach out to him to join. Firehouse Subs at noon today. Gomer and Pigskin raising funds for the Mountain Medical Team with Friends of Barnabas in Honduras.
I was inspired by a reading at Church this past weekend from Luke 3. It is about John the Baptist (McClane) and quotes as it is written in Isiah:
“A voice of one calling in the wilderness,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord,
make straight paths for him.
5 Every valley shall be filled in,
every mountain and hill made low.
The crooked roads shall become straight,
the rough ways smooth.
6 And all people will see God’s salvation
Pray that every mountain and hill is made low. Especially for Mary, Molly, Fireman Ed and Gypsy.
Thanks for everyone who came out to Heartbreak today and some for the first time in a while. You are always welcome and it does not always suck. And one more thing:
Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!
