The gloom was gloomy and the pax were paxy. So we freaking launched on the #1 day of the week (well, it’s a 7-way tie for first place).
After a warmup lap and the usual suspects of warmup exercises, we lined up on the goal line of the field.
- Sprint to 50 yd line, do 50 merkins.
- Sprint to goal line, do 5 burpees.
- Sprint to 40 yd line, do 40 merkins.
- Sprint to goal line, do 5 burpees.
- 30, 20, 10… you get the idea
There was some griping. Almost as if starting off with 150 merkins and 25 burpees between sprints was not Ludicrous, but all of our skinny runner arms survived and are better for it.
Cool down 2 laps. Holy crap, YHCs knee acted up. Better to be smart and fight another day. YHC bowed out to do some block work while the rest of the pax crushed the following track work:
- Sprint the straightaways, recover on the curves. 1 mile
- Sprint a half loop, recover a half loop. 1 mile
Finish up with Mary
Moleskin
I was extremely excited to be Q ing after a bit of a hiatus. Even when the knee acted up mid-day yesterday I couldn’t imagine a world where I would not show up. Thanks to the pax for being understanding.
- Enron is 40 and he is a man.
- Stray ran fast, turned 40, got a new hip, then ran fast again.
- Burgoo is 50ish but looks like he’s 40.
- Tantrum’s hair was in 40 different directions.
- AM-PM was only 40 seconds late, but made up for it with speed.
- Drebin something about 40 cause I can’t think of any more 40-related things to say.
Seriously though, guys were flying. It’s awesome to see the progress out of each and every one of these 6 dudes. 40 out of 40 stars, would do again.
Popcorn. Thank you for the Q. More importantly two lessons we learned:
1) an idiot can ignore reality and run through the signs and injury themselves. But it takes a true man (even if not yet 40) to know when to waive it off and fight another day
2) you priced that leadership isn’t always out front. A good leader can do it from the sideline because of the good will they have already earned
And yes we needed to work some chestage so thanks for that.
And by “priced” autocorrect meant “proved”. But Slingshot was too damn lazy to put in an edit feature in the comments section for backblasts when building the new website 😳