When: 10/30/18
Where: The Gladiator
The Pax: Spandex, Blackbox, Tebow, Brownie, Manchester, Kegger, Puddle Jumper, Postal, Moonshine
QIC: Tebow
The cool weather is leaving us with a smaller group, but 9 men volunteered to come out for punishment in the gloom this morning at the hands of the Q.
Warm-O-Rama: (all IC and x15): Quick mosey around our parking lot to pick up Puddle Jumper and then we did some SSH, Hillbillies and weedpickers (we gotta get more creative in the warmups!)
The Thang: On the short mosey to the pavilion I asked the PAX about their mutiny on Thursday since I wasn’t there, the PAX quickly shut me down and let me know I’d need to be ready for it this morning. We did 3 sets each of dips and leg raises, 10 reps, 15 reps, then 20 reps. The PAX was eerily silent on this Halloween eve… so far so good.
The group then took a short jaunt to the small parking lot in front of the rec center. For a taste of what was to come, we ran a quick round of suicides using the parking space lines and went up to 10 with the gazelles laddering back down as the 6 finished up.
In a moment of inspiration yesterday, the Q came up with a BRILLIANT new routine that is being dubbed “Lieutenant Bear Burpee Suicides”.
Bear crawl across 1 parking space, 1 burpee, lunge walk back to the start, plank for the 6, then 4 squats as a group. Bear crawl 2 spaces, 2 burpees, lunge walk back, plank for 6, 8 squats as a group. Bear crawl 3… you get the idea… around the 6th round the Q started to wonder if this was such a good idea, but there was no turning back now so with the PAX assistance to remember how many squats we were supposed to do, we soldiered on. We finished up and after 220 squats and 55 burpees the Q felt it was a good time for a quick 10 count.
We did one final lap around our main lot, moseying the first leg and doing 10 merkins on the corner. Running backwards the next leg, 10 merkins on the corner. Side shuffles to the next corner, 10 merkins. Side shuffle the other direction to the flag, 10 merkins and crank up some Mary.
Moonshine did us all in with some LBC flutters, followed by some mountain climbers from Spandex and the Q closed us out with some American Hammers in honor of DC2 who apparently had to “stay up late to study” last night and didn’t make it out.
COT
Prayers for Spandex’s Ms stepfather who is in declining health and for her mother who is being overwhelmed with the situation. Prayers for the victims of the Synagogue shooting victims in Pittsburgh and for peace that are finding themselves so angry in this world. Prayers for the Q’s dad who will be having gall bladder surgery on Monday.
Thanks to Spandex as usual for the coffeeteria and braving an injury; and to Blackbox who had to retrace our route to collect some of the layers that were shed over the course of the beatdown… that definitely made the Q felt like he did his job. And as always, thanks to the PAX that came out to support my Q. I might have to repeat this one for Viking sometime and see if we can’t take a little spring out of that step!
Tebow out