Seven men met at the launch pad at 5:30 for a little adventure to parts unseen in SVU. Dandelion showed up at 5:35 just in time for the pax to roll out. Unfortunately FNG-1(Spokes) was tardy and had to play Hide & Seek for 45 minutes, more on that later! So 9 total this am!
Warmup:
- Plank Jacks X 15IC
- Side to Side Lunges X 10 IC
- Toy Soldiers X 15IC
- Storm Troopers X 15IC
Thang:
Decided to show the pax some new scenary this am, but made a few pain stops along the way to get the muscles going.
Group Mosey to the southside of SVU to Shelter Cove – 4 Minutes of Quadraphelia
Group Mosey up the hill to Stormy Point Ct – Stopping at every other driveway on the left for 10 merkins – 40 total
Q starts running down Stormy Point and the resident southsider Metro kept saying I picked the wrong road…this one is too flat…then the Q hangs a right between 2 hedges…and the pax was flumoxed.
Mosey down to top of stairs down to boat dock. Cheetah knows exactly what is next.
There are 69 stairs down to the water. Pax lines up. 1st Pax yells an exercise and then heads to bottom and back up while rest of pax completes said exercise. Here is the list of what I can remember.
- LBC
- Low Flutter
- Wide Merkin
- SSH
- Dolly Parton
- Pickle Pounder
- Squats
- one more???
Once everyone had a turn we headed back to end of Stormy Point Ct
10 merkins at every other driveway back to Shelter Cove – 40 in total
4 more minutes of Quadraphelia! – Crowd Pleaser
Mosey back to launch pad – along the way we see FNG-1 (Spokes) jogging around. Guess the pax won Hide & Seek for the day. Sorry Spokes! He seemed to perk up when Cheetah mentioned Saturday AM bike riding before 7am workout.
Mary:
- Box Cutter
- Fire Hydrant
- J-Lo
- American Hammer
Reflection:
Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot, and ground coffee beans in the third pot.
He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing.
After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl.
He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup. Turning to her he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?”
“Potatoes, eggs, and coffee,” she hastily replied.
“Look closer,” he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.
“Father, what does this mean?” she asked.
He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity– the boiling water.
However, each one reacted differently.
The potato went in strong, hard, and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak.
The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard.
However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
“Which are you,” he asked his daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean? “
MC:
- Good seeing Abrams at SVU today – keep this up and we'll make you an honorary SVU member. No more credentials needed to get past the wall.
- 8 total minutes of Quadraphelia was definitely a crowd pleaser – so much so that POTUS and Metro had to suddenly leave when the 2nd round was called.
- Dandelion says the stairway will become the new Little Baby Hill for his workouts…Pax has been warned!
Pleasure this am gents!
V