Stalking Chupacabra or Tiger

3 Studs convened at 0530am in GasHouse for the toughest (never mind it is the only) Monday F3 workout in Gastonia. It was a chilly and wet morning with not a fartsacker in sight. We were Q-less and yet we were Q-ful at the same time. No one was assigned so we quickly assigned all of us and got to work. I was thankful Squirt showed up as he did. If he did not park right next to me, my plan was to sink down in my seat until around 0535 then sneak out of the parking lot with headlights off and go home for a little extra sleep before going to work. Thankfully, he kept me honest and committed so we got some work done. Spiderman showed up in his usual silent way-one minute there were only 2 of us, next thing you know Spiderman is contributing to the conversation.

We had a brief discussion about what we would do and to save Spiderman a trip back to the car, I suggested we just do a version of last week’s Fast and Furious 6 and there was no objection so we ran for cover of the bank drive thru to get started. Here is what I remember:

Squirt started us off with “Hit the pledge before we forget”-good call

WU: no idea, I’m sure it was SSH plus some other stuff.

Thang:

Exercise #1, 1 lap, Exercise #1 and 2, 2 laps, Exercise #1,2, and 3, 3 laps…up to 6 exercises and 6 laps for total of just shy of 3 miles. Exercises X 10 reps each time were (as I recall) in order Merkins, Freddy Mercury, Dips, Sumo Squats, ? Peter Parkers, and then a new one by Squirt he wants to call “Stalking Tiger.” It’s your decision, but my suggestion was chupacabra because it was an exercise from hell and looks just like the chupacabras I saw when I was running the P200 recently (does anyone read this? I can put whatever I want if no one is reading this…). Start in plank, do merkin, bring one leg up like peter parker then inch worm forward to full plank, then repeat merkin/peter parker with other leg. This process was repeated for (I think) about 17 miles (really was about 25 feet but felt like much farther).

We walked as slow as necessary to get back to home base for COT at 0615. We had a lot of chatter about things this morning such as Hermits, events planned last night at Advisory Board, and guys we needed to EH. The COT was pretty impactful for me and I think the others as well. Truly a good morning to be there and more proof to me that the numbers that post really have very little to do with the quality of the experience. In fact, the lower numbers seem to be the times that I drive home with a much different perspective than when I got up this morning. Shieldlock is a valuable tool we all need at one time or another. Gotta post to keep it strong. Hope to see you fellas out there this week.

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