Day: December 14, 2019

Reporting to the gloom today were 7 men ready to get after it on a chilly December morning. Let’s do it!

Disclaimer

Warm Up:

Goof Balls of course!

Don Quixote

Imperial Walkers

Monkey Humpers

Mosey around the grassy area toward the island. Look out, there’s a bike repair assembly thing close by, make sure not to run into it. Once at the bridge YHC was about to give the first command when he noticed the signature color of…BLOOD! Radar apparently was cut right on the cheek when he ran into the bike thing. Watch out men.

YHC then called for Bear Crawls across the wooden part of the bridge. Once across, the PAX was directed to Karaoke left to the next bridge. Fellowship mosey across the next bridge then lunge walk back to the other side. From there we do Karaoke R to the other bridge. Fellowship mosey across then Bear Crawl back again. Skip to the other bridge and then mosey to the parking lot.

Partner up for Dora 123. Partners do 100 merkins, 200 Squats, 300 LBCs and 400 Air Presses. While one is exercising, the other runs to the other end of the parking lot and back. Teamwork until completion.

Mosey back to the start for something to end with and we’re done.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead. Sorry for the late BB.

AYE!

This has been a rather intense year for me running another 10 miler ( correctly ) and not hurting self in the process, running 3 5ks, Spartan Sprint, Warrior Dash, Bonefrog Sprint and A lot of boot camps and running AOs. So earlier this year ( can’t remember if it was at Mount Hollywood in April or even earlier ( which is what I suspect) at the Storm there was discussion of what WE all want to accomplish this year or in the near future. When I spoke of a 1/2 marathon Orangeman issued a challenge realizing all I had on plate for the year but advising me of how late in the year the Santa Hustle was ….. that I should consider it, and I did and am so glad not only to him but also to Breaker Breaker who many times ran with me at the Pub as we have a similar time ( although he’s gotten faster recently) and to a couple of guys along the way for their advice.
Upon arriving today I noticed Gump finishing up with his lovely 2.0 on the fun run and this got me stoked for my turn at the race!
Several of the key players were present waiting for the 1/2 to start and a few others for the 5k.
The 1/2 started first with Breaker Termite and myself huddled back towards the 10-11 mile section At the start gate and Orangeman Tiger and Doodles all closer to the front. It was an amazing accomplishment for myself and Doodles who finished just ahead of me for our first 1/2 marathon each.  Breaker Breaker definitely did better than last year as he told all afterwards  And Tiger spoke to me later of having done a number of these races over the years.
During the 5k my M and Oompas M sported their reindeer outfits and walked along with TimeFrames M. Time Frame, both his 2.0s and my 2.0 ran the race as well as Oompa Loompa and Oompa sported Vuvuzela as well as an unnamed pax from Rock Hill.
The weather was perfect, the course like last year had to be modified due to excessive rains But still remained challenging.
To

any contemplating a run at next years 1/2…. reach out to any or several of those who ran this year …. you will not regret the experience!

Warm-Up
Moroccan Night Clubs IC
SSH IC
Seal Jacks IC

Mosey to the Pull-up Bar. I got lost along the way! Pockets had to show me the path…
1-2-3 Ladder
1 Pull-up
2 Thigh Slappers (hang on one arm and slap your thigh with the other, then hang on the other arm and slap the opposite thigh)
3 Knee-ups
Announced we were going up to 7 but ran out of gas at 4.

Mosey to the front of the middle school.
Dora from the benches to the fence.
200 Dips
200 Merkins
Pockets and I made short work of this.

Mosey to Hawthorne St
Bucket carry down then up x 3
Shellshock appeared as we were ascending on our 1st bucket carry.
“Hey you guys F3?”
We had that sneaking suspicion that someone was following us…

Mosey to parking lot behind Old Stone
I turned on my car, plugged in my phone, and cranked it to 11 for…
the Baby Shark Ab Workout!
We did 2 rounds because some lady interrupted us about her parking there during the first round. The HIMs liked this one. My 3 year old asks for this version of baby shark every morning.