We were only a month into the year, but the weinke to start the week at The Sandlot was going to be based on a year-to-date review of what JJ has been up to. YHC arrived on a drizzly morning that earned the term, the gloom. As 0530 neared, PAX were still driving up, and as we hit 0530, PAX were still walking up. They’ll catch up. We have to get started.
The Pledge
This was the first week of the walk/ruck option at The Sandlot, so 6 PAX took off after the pledge to do their thing. The remaining 5 stayed for the warmup
SSH x 9
Squats x 9
Hillbillies x 9
Merkins x 9
LBCs x 9
(That’s 45 reps)
The ground was cold and wet so it was met with great fanfare when YHC called “Recover” after only 9 LBCs. Let’s mosey. Down the sidewalk, over the hole, past Planet Fitness where Sargento actively EH’ed a gentleman and his son walking into Planet Fitness, and over to the Food Lion parking lot.
To start the year, JJ and the family took advantage of the extra school vacation days for a covid-makeup trip to Universal Studios in Orlando. Those two parks are filled with thrill rides, but the Food Lion parking lot is the best I could do on the budget I was working with. To simulate the adventure of a Thrill Ride, we’d perform an exercise, run up one side of the parking spaces, perform an exercise at the other end, and then mosey back. Rinse and repeat for the 5 rows of parking spaces. 9 Squats on the lower end and 9 Big Boys on the upper end of the lot. (That’s 45 of each exercise). This parking lot was also wet and cold, but I didn’t want the wetness from the LBCs to go to waste.
Once that was complete, mosey over to Robinson Elementary for the second big event of JJ’s year-to-date adventure. YHC had turned 45 three Monday’s earlier. I would have done what most PAX do and took the birthday Q, but I was out of town on the holiday weekend. However, it was not too late for a birthday party. At the middle of the walkway, the PAX would give me a gift of an exercise and we’d do 10’s (kinda like 11’s, but with 10’s). Bubba Sparxxx gave me American Hammers, and Sargento gave me Merkins. My thought on that was that someone had given him Merkins, he doesn’t like them, and he re-gifted them to me. Don’t want them to go to waste. We’d mosey to one end for 1 American Hammer and then mosey to the other end for 9 Merkins. Mosey back for 2 AHs, then back for 8 Merkins. In total, it would be 45 of each exercise. Since I was three weeks late, we’d all stop for 3 burpees every time we crossed the middle which was marked with the birthday cone. Time flies when you’re having fun so we didn’t have time for 9 rounds. After 4 rounds, we had to cut it short, but we needed to get the 45 of each in. So we did 35 Hammers, mosey to the other end for 15 Merkins. Party over so let’s mosey.
The last and most recent event in the year of JJ was a trip the day before to Hawks Nest Snowtubing Park. This took us through Mortimer country so the last stop of the morning had to be at Gastone’s Hill #HTFU #HRB4L. Mosey up the hill while stopping at each mailbox on the right for 3 merkins. Fifteen mailboxes in total equaled 45 reps. Mosey back down the hill and back to Snowballs. Along the way we stopped at 5 different light posts for 9 Squats (yep, 45).
We returned right as the walk/ruckers did.
Announcements
Retreat next weekend
Walk/Ruck at The Sandlot 0530
2F lunch next Weds – JR Cash in Mt Holly
Prayer Requests
Watts Up
Linus’s family
Gumby
Wichita’s mom
Roundup’s family
Roscoe’s father-in-law
Prayer to take us out.
Until next time…