Day: August 13, 2018

So as YHC rode up from Lake Wylie to the Yank AO things went from bright and sunny to very foggy, misty and frankly a little dark about the time he hit Southpoint Road. Driving on up it looked – and felt like another world from where I had left. I fully expected to hear Rod Serling’s voice announcing that we had all gone interdimensional. Would we see Bigfoot maybe? An alien spacecraft? Hitler? Stalin? Santa Clause maybe? Oh well, too late to turn back now! the rest went something like this:

COP on the park pad:

SSH X 20

2  alligator burpees OYO

IW X 20

4 alligator burpees OYO

Copperhead squats X 20

6 alligator burpees

Mountain Climbers X 20

8 alligator burpees

LBCs X 20

10 alligator burpees

Mosey up to the field of dreams fro some BLIMPS!

Partner up, P1 runs the length of the field and back, P2 does the exercise until P1 returns. Flapjack!

Burpees

Lunges (jump variety)

Imperial Walkers

Merkins

Plank Jacks

Squats

After we get through this, mosey up to the corner of Knowledge.

Dips

Step ups

Dirkins

Three sets: 10 X 15 X 20

Take a quick 10 counts, then do the following:

Broad jump down to the center stairs. frog hop to the end.

Mosey back. Train time, 5 burpees

Back to the field of dreams for a crowd fave, Bear Crawl slalom!

BCS to the end.

at the end:

SSH X 20

Morrocan nightclubs X 20

2 sets.

Mosey to the center of the field, 20 CCDs

Mosey to the end of the field: 20 merkins

Another train set of burpees.

Mosey over to hearbreak hill where I was CERTAIN we would encounter Bear Bryant in the zone!

Triple nickle

Mountain climbers X 5 (bottom)

LBCTs X 5 (top)

Bear may not have shown up but we did this to do one thing – get tougher in the 4th quarter!

Finish up with a round of pax led Mary for 5 minutes.

Mosey up to The Yank and do the pledge.

NMM:

It was humid, very soupy and very difficult conditions. Looked and felt like the Twilight Zone. No Bigfoot. No aliens, no dictators or Santa Clause. Just a sweaty ball of man and one young  FNG. Welcome Thorpe! Named by YHC for his muti sport acumen. Football, soccer, baseball and basketball. You sir, are the greatest  athlete in the park today! look up Jim Thorpe and you’ll see why.

Honor and pleasure to lead this group. Need to put together a clown car for Revolution soon.

I saw ShortSale at church Sunday morning and he mentioned Gastone was Q on Monday and possibly also Wednesday this week so I gave it some thought and by the end of the day I had wrestled the Q from Gastone-usually not a difficult task-he Qs enough so he is more than willing to give them up when asked. I started thinking and came up with the Weinke but then did a few Omahas (unbeknownst to the Pax) due to Q-fatigue, which for me today was 100% due to Saturday’s Q by SisterAct which is still causing some problems but I will just keep that to myself (sort of).

Gastone and I did a little EC and came in hot to find about 10 guys ready to get going. There were no FNGs so I gave a quick disclaimer and we started into it.

WU: SSH, Merkins, Plank stuff, 5 wolverine burpees (enough of those).

Thang: Mosey to AutoZone for 20 BB situps.

Mosey to old HT parking lot and meander to the far wall for some Hip Slappers X 10 then quick count off (12 of us) then another 12 Hip Slappers. Mosey to the school dodging traffic along the way and go to the breezeway thing. 4 pax were volunteered to remember a specific exercise and we did 1 min of the first 2 then rinse/repeated (Set Ups/Derkins). We then moved on the to second set (Sit Ups/Squats) which is when the WHEELS FELL OFF. Someone let some gas slip out (not me) and like a bunch of 3rd graders we all erupted in laughter and made a few comments that had us all on our back a little longer. I think we had to skip the second set of Sit Ups/Squats and moseyed around the back to do some stair work with a coupon we “borrowed” on the way. On the stairs we all walked up and down the steps with 20 squats at each end. While the pax were stair-walking, we took turns with the coupon on the stairs and did 20 Merkins when we got to the top or bottom. This took longer than I expected but achieved a desired burn with time for chatter. We moseyed back to start (Spiderman had enough gas in the tank to come blazing past me and come close to catching Gastone back at the start). We had just enough time for the Pledge and a quick cup of chocolate milk then COT. I closed us out with a prayer.

While at the fart-hall, I mean breezeway, I took a couple minutes to briefly discuss my recent trip to San Francisco and tour of Alcatraz. I picked up a book written by an ex-inmate named James Quillen. I am about 50 pages into it and he has not arrived at Alcatraz yet-he is giving background for how he ended up there-basically a really crummy home life which led him to make bad decisions. He took the blame for making the choices, however he also pointed out the situation he was in when he made those poor choices. He talked about how when he was younger, he knew what was right and wrong, but once he started down the wrong path, it was really hard to get back on track and the “easy way” was clearly the wrong way. At the time he did not have the insight and strength to do what needed to be done. Clearly, if he had something like F3, he would have had a better chance to end up somewhere other than Alcatraz.

Reading this book is helping me re-remember how lucky I have been to be surrounded by a loving family who encouraged me early on to make smart choices, ultimately leading me to where I am now-posting at a frozen icee place at dark-thirty in the morning surrounded by some great guys who can’t stop laughing at a fart. IT REALLY DOES NOT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!!!!!

Hope you all had a great day and thanks for being there this morning and all the other mornings.

Whoopee