White Snake had to go for his daughter audition. Gypsy texted the previous day that he was coming, but cancelled later. So, had to run all by myself. Ran five miles. Met several runners along the way, but they also refused to join me after my good morning. So, maybe it is me…
Usual apologies for the delay.
Two avoided The Fart Sack in exchange for a crisp spring morning. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the guy in the blue tron vest, the following quite likely happened:
Mosey from the Stone House to Forest Hill Avenue, heading “off campus” through the stone gate, then back to the stone house for the COP.
COP
SSHs, DQs, IWs, Dead Man Hang, LBCs, flutters, WWIIs, HRMs.
Mosey to the stone staircase. Grab a stone. Any stone. But, maybe find one without worms.
First set: Carry the stone down the stairs. 10 overhead presses. Carry the stone to the top. 20 dips. Repeato x3 rounds.
Second set: Carry the stone down the stairs. 10 curls. Carry the stone to the top. 20 four-count flutter kicks. Repeato x3 rounds.
Third set: Carry the stone down the stairs. 10 squats. Carry the stone to the top. 10 snow angels. Repeato x3 rounds.
Mosey to the tennis courts to do a Prostitute. Tastefully and slowly. For the uninitiated, said exercise involves “returning to the same corner” after each round.
Round 1: 10 mercans, then back to the start for 1 burpee.
Round 2: 10 mercans, then onto corner #2 for 20 LBCs, then back to corner #1 for 10 mercans, then back to the start for 1 burpee.
Round 3: 10 mercans, then onto corner #2 for 20 LBCs, then onto corner #3 for 30 flutter kicks, then back to corner #2 for 20 LBCs, then back to corner #1 for 10 mercans, then back to the start for 1 burpee.
Round 4: 10 mercans, then onto corner #2 for 20 LBCs, then onto corner #3 for 30 flutter kicks, then onto corner #4 for 40 side-straddle hops, then back to corner #3 for 30 flutter kicks, then back to corner #2 for 20 LBCs, then back to corner #1 for 10 mercans, then back to the start for 1 burpee.
Mosey to the drop off circle(s?) for Street Light Lane. Stop at each light, do the called exercise.
10 HRMs
10 heels to Heaven
20 squats
30 invisible jump rope
15 Carolina dry docks
20 hello dollies
20 reverse crunches
10 oblique crunches, each side
Two rounds. Completed all but the last 2 on the second round.
BTTVSF. Numbers, names, and YHC took us out.
Announcements: Breaking Bread, Gomer has a CSAUP of SOME SORT coming up. Swim, bike, run or Run, ruck, boot. Just show up and do it.
NMS: It’s been a while since YHC has attended a 2-person beat down. Hutton raised an important issue: do we face each other directly, or stand off set? No matter. Good chatter throughout as we toured the AO.
5 desperados met at the Alamo for one last stand against the joys of weekend excess!
Warmorama: Jog to culdsesac some SSH and went over how to BLIMP. BLIMPS: Burpee-5x/Lunge-10x/Imperial Walker-10x/Merkin-10x/Plank Jacks-10x/Squats-10x.
Jogged around Rountrey about 3 miles and stopped in various culdesacs for around 6 rounds of BLIMPS.
New dude superlatives:
Comanche scout: Warby was part tour guide and scout. Now I know where Vagabond, Nap Pod and Warby live.
Safety Warden: Cookie wins the award this morning. He was rocking a pair of sporty safety glasses as way to avoid pollen in the eyes.
Names/Numbers. Wildcat took us out in prayer
Strong work today.
Blast for RAMM (map below)
https://onthegomap.com/s/pl0ksri2
onthegomap.com
An app for mapping running routes. (27 kB)
On the slim chance I missed someone’s name (I know I did), please let me know
Unfortunately, most of the usual OTB suspects were out this morning. To get in today’s required training mileage of 14, YHC met Draper at 530 to get things started a little early. A quick(ish) 3 mile loop brought us back to Starbucks by 6 to pick up Rosie, who was looking for the usual 6-7 OTB mileage. Another loop and 7 miles later brought us back to Starbucks. YHC was expecting to bid farewell to Rosie at this point, but when it was revealed that the final loop was just 4 more miles, he was feeling good and all in.
The temps were great for a long run this morning. Thanks always to Draper for making up the routes. Over two hours of running (coupled with YHCs short attention span) is too long to remember everything that was discussed.
Safe travels for all those on vacation this week for spring break. Apparently Boberry got sick on vacation last week…so prayers for his speedy recovery.
Peace!
Roger Roger took us to Short Pump Park and Pigskin joined us for the first half. We did a total of 3.1 miles that day. According to my Garmin, it involved something difficult on the SPES football field. I count 1200 yards of running with exercises every 25 yards. Maybe is was a Beast but don’t recall.
We are now ready to file our 10-Q. Highlights include an average 5.1 attendees with a high of 8 and a low of 2. That’s a YoY increase of 18% from last Q1’s 4.3 average.
We had 6 different Q over 12 weeks this year which is great!
Last year we missed 3 backblasts in Q1. That is sad and it is a good thing we hired a new audit firm this year.
With Q1 complete, an Backblast audit was needed to ensure we could file the WaThoHuk 10-Q. A couple discrepancies were found.
This one involved a T.A.C.O. workout at the opening day of Torchy’s Tacos. We first ran to the Torchy parking lot across Broad. Some teenage kids were already in line for free Queso and joined us for a bit. We did four corners with four exercises that spelled TACO. You’ll have to ask Roger Roger what they were.
We then ran to the West Broad Village pond and met up with Pigskin. I took us up on a hill and we did sevens of some sort and got damp.
We then ran back to the flag. 3.3 miles total.
14 Hard chargers (including an FNG) met at Rockwood Park to test their limits and do the Merkin wave.
Mosey to the Basketball court. The Warm-Up:
Side Straddle-Hops, Ukrainian Soldiers, Don Quixotes, Imperial Soldiers, Cherry Pickers, Super Mario Jumps, Karaoke.
THE MERKIN WAVE!
What is a Merkin wave? Good question; here goes my best: It starts with the group getting into a circle and setting up in a good Merkin position.
Starting from the down position of the Merkin, with your chest 1 to 2 inches off the ground, the First Hard Charger pushes up, and holds the position, and the person to the immediate left does a Merkin and holds, and it continues in a circl…… Have you either seen the wave done while watching a sporting event, and/or performed the wave while you were at a live sporting event? Well, that’s what we did. Imagine instead of people doing the wave around the stadium, we were doing Merkins in lieu of the wave. I don’t have a number of Merkins we did, but it was an amount that is making it difficult to type right now.
Next up, Mosey to the baseball fields. Partner up in twos. Everyone does the wall sit, while the first two run down steps, complete 10 Bo-Ya (spelling) Merkins, run back up the steps, and begin doing tri-cep dips. While first two are doing tri-cep dips, next two come off the wall, go down the steps and complete 10 high-five Merkins, run back up the steps, and begin doing dips. The two that were doing dips return to wall sit. Rinse and repeat until everyone had a chance to gets some more Merkins in.
Next up, indigenous line, everyone in the line doing American Hammers. Hard Charger in the back runs down and around the steps, comes back up, sets up in the front of the indigenous line, begins doing American Hammers, and person in back runs. Rinse and repeat until the everyone had the opportunity to run two laps. An Audible was called halfway through to transition from American Hammers to Word War 2s.
Last, and certainly not least, Blackjack. Two workouts with a run in the middle, both workouts equaling 21. The first exercise, 1 hand release Merkin, run 40 yards, 20 jump squats, run 40 yards back, 2 hand release Merkins, run 40 yards, 19 jump squats, etc. etc. in total, 210 hand release Merkins and 210 jump squats.
Mosey back to the parking lot.
COT: There were no announcements or prayer requests. We welcomed the Friendly New Guy, and he received the name of Gaston.
Note: This was my first time being the Q for a big group/an area that wasn’t Bermuda Triangle, and I have to say it is a blast. I came in confident that I had everything I needed to get the job done. I found out, like many sound plans, that a few audibles needed to be called, and some prior plans sound much better in your head/on paper than they do in action. I look forward to being the Q again someday in the future and encourage anyone that has never been a Q before to sign up!
12 men descended upon the windy and somewhat wet confines of Northern Short Pump. Since Fireman Ed was Q, rain had to be a factor and thankfully was only a factor at 7:57. But the rain was enough to drive out the partial geriatrics but not before we got a beatdown going.
COP: DMH, mosey most of the way around the track and then rest of COP at soccer field. Merkins, MCs, FMs and ACs. Mosey to tennis court for Andre Aggasi beast.
Beast on tennis court including burpees, WWIIs (get the back moist), jump squats, HRMs, heels to heaven, squats. Mosey to basketball court.
4 corners with 14 burpees (gets the burpee count to 50), 20 2 count flutter kicks, 30 2 count MCs and 50 SSHs. Mosey to field near home base.
Parter wheelbarrow across the field, run back. Bear crawl to center of field, run to other end, Bernie back. Same with bunny hops. Mosey to little pavilion.
Elevens with derkins and 2 count step ups. Mosey to soft surface and do AHs and then 50 APDs. With Pigskin counting in a Germanic language and the number being above PAX’s expectations, confusion ensued. At the point this exercise concluded, it started pouring so we went back to the little pavilion and did counterama and prayer.
There is a CSOP at Currahee in a couple weeks. Other than that, the PAX wanted their Starbucks and I wasn’t about to tell them no. It was good to see everyone and to be able to lead.
Fireman Ed – newly Respected
2 ruckers(walking around with a weighted pack that can be used to train while wearing or as a tool) plus 5 runners came out this morning to Rockwood Park. Last week we had the lights on from all the baseball fields ready for practice. This week, a little breezy but the temps were mid 60s which made things comfortable.
The ruckers(Florence and Footloose) took off at 6am to venture around the park. The runners(Chaplin, Touchdown, Hardywood, Rosie, and myself) took off at 630 around the trail from one side to the other. On days where the paved trail is wet, shoes with good traction is needed. A little research done on one of my trail running pairs and found out it was ok to do a short run on pavement. The pace was fast today, first mile was 9:39, second 9:30(my average heart rate for the run was 151BPM). We caught up with Florence and Footloose as they came out of the nature area, then headed back to the flag to get a rest, change shoes if needed, and get ready for the main workout.
Is it easy….no. In time it does start to get easier. Each session, it’s not the big improvements but little ones that over time leads to bigger gains. Be safe with the winds today, have a good one and see you next time