As Blackbeard appeared out of the gloom post-workout to imbibe his coffee, he shared with the pax that he thought the #PAINinsula weekly gathering was the respect crowd…until he attended TopGun's 50th celebration…must have been some OLD peeps at that one! Little did he know he missed the sniper-attack on Callahan at the end of the Standard. Two #Resepects have gone down while running around the PAINinsula AO within 5 days….a little to common of an occurrence if you ask me!
17 PAX gathered at the finest AO in all of LKN for the first Q (non-KB) delivered by yours-truly in over a year. I was called out last night by Outlaw based on a half-spoken, under-my-breath response last week to his question "can anyone take the Q next week? My response — "…if I am in town, if it's not raining, and if the moon is positioned correctly…". Well – he called me out and OF COURSE I did NOT want to pull a Half-Moon on him so I gladly accepted the helm. Based on mumble-chatter post-workout, everyone enjoyed the tour until we hit the hill for the bear-crawl / crawl-bear's…that's where we lost a few for sure! Always good to have Blackbeard and the OG-Goat join the 2ndF festivities of cofee-teria.
Here's the thang (as best as I can remember given I hang out too often with the #Respects):
Mosy to the HT parking lot for a nostalgic Warm-a-rama
- SSH x20
- Merkins x10 (heard a few grumbles for this call "…we aren't even warmed up yet….")
- Cottom Pickers x10
- IST x 20
Mosy to the flower boxes for a few rounds:
- 10 OYO step-ups each leg
- 20 dips
- 10 incline merkins
- (repeato – almost – called out by Omega for not allowing him to get in the 2nd round of 10 merkins…he did have his guns out and was wanting to put them to use!)
Mosy the long way around to the hill that scares Moses away every month…the mouth of the Horseshoe…where we partnered up
- Partners take turns running the hill while the other is doing:
- Round 1: LBC
- Round 2: Air squats
- Round 3: Lunges
- Round 4: Low flutter
- Round 5: Axle wanted a 5th but we decided to wander to the rock pile
Given many of us were rained out from our Monday KB action…we need to make up for lost time by grabbing a rock:
- Bent over rows x10
- Curls x10
- Skull crushers x10
- Overhead press x 15
- Repeato
Mosy to the flag for the pledge and 10 merkins
Mosy to the top of the hill for another 10 merkins
Mosy to the hill on Jetton
- Bear crawl up, 10 air squats, crawl-bear down
- Same with:
- 10 merkins
- 10 Carolina dry docks
- Finish with 20 LBC's at the bottom
Mosy to launch area for some Mary:
- Crunchy-frogs (AKA – Stromboli's or Primo's) – x20
- Rosalita x20 (not sure what plant Oyster was chewing on during the workout, but his cookie-monster cadence was horrible)
- Freddie Mercury x20
- 10 merkins to finish it
—recover, recover–
Forgot how much fun it can be taking the Q for 45 minutes with this fine group of men. Great to see Uncle Rico getting back after it and Omega was even able to convince Yosemite to come out of hiding. If anyone sees a half-moon running around Huntersville or Cornelius, please try to snap a picture — that damn thing is hard to pin-down these days for sure. Also – while keeping your eyes open, please drop a 411 to Stromboli if you see his chair anywhere. He is out walking the streets now hanging the "if you've seen my chair" signs right now if anyone has time to assist…
Have a great week PAX and we'll see you in the gloom!
Macbeth-Out