Merkin Mania

2 started with EC then another 5 showed for a total of 7 posting at The Goat. It’s been a REALLY long time since I have Q’d or even posted here. It was great getting back out there-thanks Buckeye for giving me a little nudge to come out here. We started with a disclaimer, WU, and pledge. We then took off for a Merkin-fest. We took a few laps with 25 Merkins at each of the corners. Honestly, I thought there were 4 corners last time I was here….someone stole one of the corners. There were only 3???? We made it work. I think we also threw in a few flutter kicks. At some point we saw 2 trains!!! I know, strange. We saluted the first with 5 burpees, moseyed a little and saw ANOTHER TRAIN!!!!?????? Can you believe that???? 2 trains pretty much at the same time. If we had moved just a little faster I think there was a 3rd train but we didn’t get there in time.

We then moved over to “the wall.” Roscoe gave us a quick history lesson-for those of you young kids who were not around, we ALLEGEDLY did donkey kicks on one of the walls, got busted, and had to pay a few hundred dollars for a fresh coat of paint a few years ago. Bandit handled this PR nightmare like a pro and fortunately we did not get booted off of Goat Island. Rather than tempt fate this morning, we used the steps for some partner work. P1 did Merkins AMRAP while P2 went up the stairs for a burpee or 2 for a few rounds each. Next on the menu was some work at the top of the stairs in the parking lot. We did a version of 11’s but I think we cut this short-Hip Slappers  starting at 11 and working our way down with a short mosey to the other side of the lot with 25 flutter kicks on the other end of the parking lot. Next we moseyed to the bridge for a few more merkins: start on 1 end of the bridge with 3 lunges to each leg then do 10 merkins. This. Took. Forever. To. Get. Across. The. Bridge…….Once across we slowly recovered with some hanging time, more merkins, some derkins, calf raises then moseyed back home for a few burpees then finished up with a  short plank while we discussed the 5 rules of F3 while planking.

We finished with COT-special prayers for Vanilla Ice with his job interview-middle school English teacher. Hope it went well. Roscoe and I figured we got just under 300 merkins this am. Very good work men. Hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for the opportunity to lead and bring back some good old memories from “back in the day.”

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