Road Trip to El Dorado 5/13/23

12 HIM originating from a couple different regions surrounding Metro accepted their invitation to UNCC on graduation day.  Upon arrival they found school was still in session.  The classroom…El Dorado.

El Dorado for those of you who have yet to visit is a six-story parking deck on the north end of the UNCC campus.  It’s not quite Mothership status but it’s been cussed just the same!  It used to be a weekly stop on the MeCa region lineup.  Today it comes alive one Saturday a month.  Come check it out.

Anyway, here is how our day progressed…  Fist bumps to all the new and old brothers.  As mentioned, we had a mixed bag of AOs represented.   A quick disclaimer was shared and before YHC said let’s go, Sugar was darting across the parking lot headed for El Dorado.  With the rest of us not far behind we carved our way through campus to the North deck for a game of Stack It Up.

On the Ground floor we started with 5 LBCs then ran up the six level Stairway to Heaven.  On the roof we had music and a nice breeze both were interrupted by 5 Monkey Humpers followed by a run down the spiral Mineshaft to the ground floor.  Next we started our ground floor stack with 5 LBC followed by 5 Jump Squats.  Up the Stairway to Heaven to start stacking our 5 Monkey Humpers with 5 American Hammers and so on for 10 rounds or until we were out of time.  The PAX pushed hard and made it through 8, 9 or 10 rounds before returning to our starting point.  Some of them after and EC ruck around campus or run to the campus from parts unknown.

Ground Floor Stack = 5 LBC + 5 Jump Squats + 5 Flutters + 5 Imperial Walkers + 5 Freddie Mercury + 5 CDD + 5 WW II Sit-ups + 5 J-LO + 5 Mountain Climbers + 5 Seal Jacks (10 rounds = 275 Reps)

Roof Top Stack = 5 Monkey Humpers + 5 American Hammers + 5 Merkins + 5 Boxcutters + 5 Plank Jacks + 5 Squats + 5 Side Straddle Hops + 5 Superman/ Banana + 5 Apollo Ohnos + 5 Burpees (10 rounds = 275 Reps)

All in if PAX made it through 10 laps they completed 550 reps, logged around four miles of running/ climbing/ descending, and most likely lost about a pound of sweat.

Announcements:  Harrisburg 10th Anniversary June 3rd.  0700 at Harrisburg Park.   Time Laps Teams – Highland Creek, Harrisburg and Gastonia running next weekend at Whitewater Center.

Closed out in prayer for new grads, teachers finishing testing and parents about to spend summer with kids.  Our country. PAX going through health issues.

Great work guys!  Had lots of fun.  Looking forward to the next one!

BOS