• Post Type: Backblast
  • When: 03/05/2022
  • AO: The Fighting Yank
  • QIC: Cha Ching
  • FNG's: J2C (Matt Keepes)
  • PAX: Buckeye, Pockets, BOS (R), Flintstone, Serena, Maybelline, Franz, Dirt (R), Orangeman (R), Tesla (R), Roscoe (R), Radar, Buckshot, Doodles (R), Brutus (R), Nutria, Breaker Breaker (R)

23 was the count in downtown Belmont for some FNG scooping, EMOM circuits, merkins / squats and burpee fest with hills.  Here’s what we did:

To the Bunker for warm up:

  • SSH
  • Gravel Pickers
  • Merkins
  • Peter Parkers
  • Parker Peters

Left the Bunker for a quick warm up mosey where we ran across some strange guy looking for F3.  Dirt pulled him in and gave him the whole rundown of what we do.  We pulled into the pavilion for a quick recap of core principles for the FNG and a dynamic warmup of 5 exercises with reps for each needing to be finished within 1 minute.  Exercises were:

  • 15 x Burpees
  • 30 x Jump Lunges
  • 40 x Toe Touches
  • 50 x CDDs
  • 60 x SSH

Mosey over to Myrtle for some hill work and an ascending series of merkins, squats and burpees:

  • 5 merkins / 5 squats / 5 burpees
  • Run about halfway up Myrtle and back down
  • Repeat for 10, 15 & 20 reps of each

FNG held up, as did the rest of the PAX, and we headed to the front of Cherubs where we learned that today wouldn’t be leg day as the Q had a long run lined up for Sunday, so we planked up and worked through:

  • 11 x Diamond Merkins
  • 10 x Merkins
  • 9 x Diamond Merkins
  • 8 x Merkins
  • 7 x Diamond Merkins

It was about here we learned it’d get easier around 4.  We weren’t there yet.

  • 6 x Merkins
  • 5 x Diamond Merkins
  • 4 x Merkins
  • 3 x Diamond Merkins
  • 2 x Merkins
  • 1 x Diamond Merkin

Mosey around to the parking lot off Glenway behind Station where we saw Pink Floyd and saluted him with

  • 10 x Monkey Humpers

before hammering out some core work with

  • 20 x Flutter Kicks (IC)
  • 20 x Elbow Mountain Climbers (IC)
  • 10 x Flutter Kicks (IC)
  • 10 x Elbow Mountain Climbers (IC)

Last stop on the tour was a trip to the track on a day that wasn’t leg or running day to, well, run.

Partner Up (preferably with similar ability level)

  • Partner 1 – Mosey
  • Partner 2 – 3 burpees, then Jailbreak to catch Partner 1
  • Switch
  • Repeato for 2 laps around the track

Everyone joined in to pick up the Six, and we headed back to the Yank statue to finish what we started, with enough time for:

  • 15 x Burpees
  • 30 x Jump Lunges
  • 40 x Toe Touches

And that was that.  Over 2.5 miles and more than a few merkins later, we were smoked.

COT was strong with BOM and the Q took us out.

Announcements:

  • Shirt order
  • Shirt design contest
  • P200 team needs a driver
  • LKW P200 team needs a runner
  • Convergence April 2nd
  • Meeting Sunday @ First Presbyterian Belmont at 5:30 PM to pray with Tesla

Prayer Requests were numerous and were lifted up.

FNG – Matthew Keepes named J2C after the “Jump to Conclusions” game from Office Space.

Lots of sweat left in downtown Belmont courtesy of Cha Ching.  Thanks to all who took part.