Let’s Go For Round Three

I turned 46 last week and my body is feeling every bit of it. Without the opportunity to stay in a Holiday Inn, the internet assisted my diagnosis of runner’s knee and heel plantar fasciitis. As they say in the playoffs of professional sports, “ain’t nobody they don’t have a little nick on ‘em at this point.” As your Weasel Shaker for the region, I count attendance (that is, if there is a back-blast to recognize your post…nudge, nudge, wink, wink) and for May I’ve only been present three times, officially. Unofficially there are two more posts from last week’s golf trip to the beach where Roscoe and I got after it about 9 am Friday and Saturday. Nothing like running on the beach, what a great AO Ocean Isle Beach can be. Back to the gloomy reality that I committed to Brown Streak as the QIC for the Goat today. With the nasty weather the past few days, I admit I was a little worried about the possible conditions that I could face and how many PAX would be alongside. I crafted two Weinkes and sealed them in plastic (great idea Stroganoff; only well trained minds from great institutions of higher learning are that prepared). The alarm sounded and to my delight, no rain! I went with Weinke #1 and packed a few coupons for the occasion.

The parking lot featured the standard cast of characters, well, except for the Site AO and the Burpee King. Fartsacking?? I can’t imagine on this balmy morning why they were absent, but who am I to say anything since I’ve posted so little, I’ll leave that to the regulars. More importantly we had the Mayor ready with new jokes and comments that fed the stream of mumble chatter. As the clock hit 0530, Dolph sent one of his trains by – I didn’t even call it before the PAX automatically dropped into 5 burpees. I surveyed the circle to see all veterans, short disclaimer: “modify as needed.” With those words of wisdom sifting through the minds, we stood to attention at the damp flag and gave it proper tradition with the Pledge. Now let’s begin the warm-up.

• SSH IC x 10
• Toy Soldier IC x 10
• Side to side lunges IC x 10
• Burpees 5 OYO (originally this was to be the lead off exercise, but the train bumped to the caboose (hey Mayor, did you see what I did there? We need to go on tour).

Let’s mosey, out of the parking lot and make a right turn around the circle for a short, and I mean short run. Today would be about cardio. If you want to run, you should have posted at The Pub. We circled to Main Street between the post office and office building where the wall would be in play. Two minute circuit with each exercise timed at 30 seconds. After a 30 second rest, we’ll repeat. A few ignored the tall grass while others used the building on the left opting for wet pavement.

• Set 1
  • Mike Tysons
  • Wall taps
  • Wall sit
  • Turtle crunch
• Set 2
  • Donkey kicks
  • Plank wall taps (think plank punch but tap the wall)
  • Wall sit but march your legs
  • Hip slappers (Whoopee you should’ve been there)

After a brief rest, I led the PAX on another short mosey around the corner building to the upper parking lot below the train tracks. Along the sidewalk of the building under the lights, YHC had labeled nine cones with two exercises each and the tenth cone simply said “run.” Fate works in mysterious ways. If I were a serious gambler, excluding Billy Madison’s NCAA pool, I would have bet money that no more than five PAX would have posted due to the aforementioned weather. So I didn’t have to remove any of the cones which allowed more exercises to work each area, specifically the arms – no soccer arms in this group. The PAX stood behind a cone and the runner took off for the stairs leading to a landing beside the train tracks. The initial call was 5 burpees at the top. Since this was a new routine that had not been timed, I quickly modified to 2 burpees at the top (apologies to Tesla and Linus as the lab rats having to do extra work). Once the runner returned to the PAX, everyone moved to their left one cone. We completed the following:

• Set 1

• Lunge R/L
• Rifle squat holding weighed pvc pipe
• Block curls
• Plank jacks w/ shoulder taps
• Lt. Dans
• Block press
• Merkin
• Flutter kicks
• American Hammer

• Set 2

• Mtn. Climbers
• WWI w/ pvc pipe
• Dips
• Ski abs
• Imperial Walker (it’s not just for warm-ups)
• Block swings
• Diamond merkins
• Dollies
• LBC

It was good work by the PAX. Special props to Mayor, displaying excellent form throughout. He can squat like no other. F3 should put him on a poster, maybe an info-mercial, stay tuned. Upon completing both circuits, we had a little more than 9 minutes to go. Like any mindful QIC of their PAX I provided options to fulfill the void. Burpees, Mary, or another cycle through the stations. Overwhelmingly the PAX voted for #3 so one more time through, only this time, Dolph sent a second train by and we obliged with 5 more burpees. For those attending Memorial Day, don’t be surprised if you hear a few train whistles as you make your way around. Back to the Goat. We pushed right up to 6:15 and made a dash back to the start for the Circle of Trust. We heard and offered prayers for Mayor’s daughter to find a diagnosis and healing, Tiny Tank’s wife and mother-in-law facing challenges, and Sargento’s mother-in-law battling dementia. Top Hat offered prayers for all of our PAX, especially those traveling this weekend for Memorial Day. For those PAX in town you have options to attend any of our three AOs. If you are on the injured list, you have options for the Pain Lab with Rudolph at GasHouse and Brownstreak hosting at the Yank. Monday morning at 0600 (note the time pushed back) Dolph will host The Murph in honor and memory of Lieutenant Michael Murphy, a Navy SEAL that gave his life for our country. This is a grinder but you’ll be among brothers that will give you the push you need. Thanks for the opportunity to lead.

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