Merlot 200

This was a tough morning for me to get up and get out here. We had a party at our house last night for a local community service group and there were a few cold beverages consumed and not the healthiest diet. While I was recovering and thinking this morning (that is code for “sitting on the can”) I finalized my weinke. The best I could come up with was a version of the Palmetto 200…..the MERLOT 200. I had  some leftover sheets with exercises on them from a previous workout that I did not use so I figured out how to use them while I was “thinking” this morning. Here is what we did:

Pledge of Allegiance

Thang: No warmup needed-we were going old school Whoopee style/new school Tiny Tank style. Start with a lap around the park then get to the exercises. The idea is there are 10 sheets spread out on the sidewalk and each has an exercise written on it. The plan is 10 reps of each exercise then run a lap, repeat until I say stop. The exercises (done in any order you want) were the following: Merkins, CDD, Monkey Humpers, Squats, Burpees, LBC, Flutter Kicks, Box Cutters, SSH, and Imperial Walkers.

By Roscoe and Short Sale’s count, we did a total of 9 rounds. Part way thru we heard 2 trains (5 extra Burpees twice-that’s 10 extra Burpees for all you fellers from NOGA). We stopped about half way thru to have a little chat about being thankful-the community service group party was for something called Family Promise-this is a group of churches in our area that help support several homeless families at a time with meals, housing, and general support. The families live in the churches for a week or 2 at a time. While it is a dry roof and safe place with food at no cost, it is still being homeless and moving everything you own (which is very little by most of our standards) every week or 2. It was a bit ironic that most of the people (including myself) at this party have no idea what it is like to be truly homeless, have grown up in a very privileged family situation, and live in a house that is much larger and filled with many things we do not NEED. I was briefly aware of this for a few minutes during the party, then thought about it again this morning while I was “thinking” about my Weinke. We all shared some things that we are thankful for during this break-perspective is important, and it was helpful for me to hear all the other comments. We celebrated this sharing moment with a quick mosey across the street for 20 hip slappers then got back to the MERLOT 200 for the second half with a few more rounds.

We closed out with Namorama, announcements, and a quick prayer. I was glad I had signed up 2 weeks ago to Q this am-it would have been a definite fartsack morning for me.

Thanks for posting guys, I needed the push.

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