It’s still cold in the gloom. Who knew how many would show as some of the Saturday regulars were working or participating in The Rooster. Having not done my ‘Forrest Gump’ workout in a while, I decided a pre-Ruck was in order for some EC and recon to make sure ice would not be a problem. Turns out the normal Lineberger Park sections for parts of the ‘Forrest Gump’ were icy and probably a little unsafe so we would have to improvise.
11 Total were ready to roll by 7:00 am including an FNG that showed on his own accord…..that’s strong, welcome Padre. Quick warm-up before splitting off for the Pain Lab and Boot Camp with some IC work as follows:
SSH X 10
Imperial Walkers X 10
Pledge
Split off: 7 for the modified Forrest Gump & 4 for the Pain Lab led by Hot for Teacher
The Thang
The Forrest Gump is so called because it includes a little more running than some of our normal workouts and goes like this:
Mosey west along Garrison Blvd for the first stop at East Garrison Baptist Church for some IC work:
Merkins X 10
Squats X 20
LBC’s X 20
Mosey further west to second stop at Hillbilly’s:
Hillbilly’s X 20 (Appalachian Americans for T-Square)
Merkins X 10
Squats X 20
LBC’s X 20
Mosey to Lineberger Park. However, the route to the flag area was covered significantly with ice so we stayed on the Garrison sidewalk up toward the upper field with the train track. Time for some Dora 1-2-3
Partner up: Partner 1 runs the path and circles around the fountain/water play area and back while partner 2 is performing the following exercises for cumulative totals as follows:
100 Merkins
200 Squats
300 Flutter Kicks
After the first round, we switched paths as the original path to the circle was iced over slightly.
After completION, we moseyed to one of the covered picnic shelters near the pool parking lot. The normal location would be the picnic area inside the train track but the wooden walkway to that area was completely covered in ice so we improvised with some IC work:
Dips X 20
Step ups X 20
Derkins X 10
Dips X 15
Step ups X 20
Derkins X 10
Meander back to the Garrison sidewalk….is that a train? Yes/no? Not sure……how about 3 burpees since we weren’t sure.
Mosey back to Hillbilly’s for another round of IC work as follows:
Merkins X 10
Low-Slow Squats X 20
LBC’s X 20
Mosey with one more stop at East Baptist Church (yes Freight, the Methodist stopped twice in a Baptist parking lot). The tradition has always been to finish the ‘Forrest Gump’ workout with a set of Monkey Humpers toward the road….Monkey Humpers IC X 15……this was the glorious portion of the workout.
Final mosey back to the Schiele to complete the workout. Great timing as the First Pres bells were ringing as we entered the parking lot. My apologies to the Pain Lab for not getting back in time for any Mary.
Good work men and especially nice to have an FNG show on a Saturday.
Announcements – several prayer requests – Name-O-Rama
FNG naming – Padre
The Moleskin
As always it was an honor to lead the group this morning. Several good discussionS along the route including the 5 tenets of F3 along with a quick discussion about why we are here. It’s not about beating the guy beside you. It’s about lifting up the guy beside you and trying to be better today than you were yesterday and being better tomorrow than you were today.
Keep Moving Forward.
Until the next one. Aye!
Stroganoff
PS: 40 Days of Discipline starts today…….that Oatmeal at Panera was GOOOOOOOOOOOD!
