Radar’s Insatiable Thirst for Burpees

10 PAX today for a birthday beatdown where the Burpees just slowly added up, thanks to the input of one helpful PAX.  Here’s what I remember:

Slow crowd to get out of their cars this morning.  With one minute to go, guys started to get out of their cars and showed up to the flag looking like they were about to serve lunch detention.  It was only slightly worse.

The Thang:

• 5 x Burpees (OYO)

We prepaid repeatedly for trains that never came.  Looking for a run & gun style today, so we started weaving through the parking lot.

• Mosey to end of parking spaces
• 41 x Goofballs (IC)

If YHC gets much older, the Q is going to pass out calling cadence.

• Mosey to islands
• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• Mosey to end of parking spaces
• 10 x Imperial Walkers (IC)
• Mosey to islands
• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• Mosey to end of parking spaces
• 10 x Toy Soldiers (IC)
• Mosey to islands
• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• Mosey to end of parking spaces
• 10 x Jane Fondas L (IC)
• 10 x Jane Fondas R (IC)
• Mosey to islands
• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• Mosey to end of parking spaces
• 10 x Mike Tysons (IC)
• Mosey to islands
• 5 x Burpees
• Mosey to traffic circle

Radar got the picture and was ordering up Burpees as we went.  He couldn’t get enough of those things.

So at the traffic circle, we did

• 20 x HR Merkins (OYO)

Then took a quick lap around the Storm’s carpool dropoff, where YHC just took off expecting some pace out of the PAX.  They lagged and got dusted, enough so that they about got lost.  Is it a Q fail if the PAX take their sweet time and get lost in the process?  Probably.  Luckily, they saw YHC back in the middle of the traffic circle doing…

• 20 x HR Merkins (OYO)

again.  That set was tougher.  Anyways, moving on.  To the Dora side of the school where the walls and concrete barriers are

• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• 30 x Dips (OYO)
• 30 x Step Ups (OYO – count each step)

To the wall

• Wall Sits
• w/20 x Air Presses (IC)
• w/20 x Marches (IC)

and then just because Radar wanted them

• 5 x Burpees (OYO)

and then another request from Radar

• 20 x Hip Slappers (IC)

(Why am I even writing this backblast when Radar was the Q?)

Next was some “Core-a” with 3 Core exercises and some running with partners.  The catch today is that the runners will mosey to the islands, then Jailbreak to the end of the parking lot, reverse directions, mosey to the islands and Jailbreak back to their partner.  Exercises were…

• 100 x Freddie Mercuries
• 200 x Flutter Kicks (Count Left Side)
• 300 x LBCs

Back to the barriers for

• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• 30 x Dips (OYO)
• 30 x Step Ups (OYO – count each step)

Back on the wall

• Wall Sits
• w/10 x Air Presses (IC)
• w/10 x Marches (IC)
• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• 10 x Hip Slappers (IC)

That was a lot of work, so it’s logical that time was running out at this point.  The stacked suicides that were planned will have to wait for another day, but we’d still get to run suicides.  Just not as many reps.

Jump Squat Suicides

• Mosey to the next set of parking spaces
• 10 x Jump Squats (OYO)
• Mosey back
• Repeato for 5 total sets of parking spaces

And I think that was all we had time for.  Probably another set or two of burpees in there, but nothing too stupid.  We got what we paid for.  Seuss and Tiger bailed on COT.  We pledged before we left.  We were there and left a mark this morning.

Moleskin:

A great start to a great day.  Pushed work down a rung or two today to join Watts Up and Anchorman for coffee at Floyd & Blackies.  That’s a couple HIM that keep me headed in the right direction.  Grateful for that 2nd F.

It was everything a 41st birthday should be.  Worked.  Spent time with my parents.  Went out to eat with my M & 2.0s.  Then called it a day.  Grateful for the simple things.

Kudos to Radar for a fine Q this morning.

Yabba Dabba Doo