Seven men braved Margret Orr’s Apocalyptic forecast to launch F3 Destrehan on a beautiful, cool, breezy River Parish morning. We planted the flag directly under the bridge, gave a short disclaimer and then moseyed about 3 feet for the warm-up COP.
The Thang
Warm-up COP – All exercises IC: SSH x 30; Imperial Walkers x 25; Low Slow Squats x 25; Peter Parker x 25; Merkins x 10; Plank Jacks x 24; Merkins x 10; Parker Peters x 25; Merkins x 10
Near the end of the COP, the St. Charles PO-PO pulled up into the parking lot. Next thing we know Torque jumps up to his feet and takes off running.
Exploratory Mosey: We moseyed down the jogging trail that goes around the park. Torque claims it is one half mile, an I have no reason not to believe him yet. There were some exercise stations along the way, a few sporadically placed picnic tables, a big open dirt area, some bleachers, some narrow grassy areas, a basketball court, and tennis courts.
After hiding out in the bathroom for a while, Torque rejoins us. I didn’t ask.
Red Hot Chili Pepper: Since we were under the bridge, it seemed appropriate to break out the Red Hot Chilli Pepper. This was gifted to the NOLA Pax at the NOLA Launch on 10/18/2014 by Chong Li. You can read the backblast here, where it is referred to as the Chong-Li Special. I modified it for the Destrehan Launch, using step ups instead of Bulgarian Split Leg Lunges. I also reversed the counts for the legs and the merkins so that it went something like this:
- 16 Channing Tatums IC (aka Right Leg Squat)
- 8 Decline Merkins IC
- 16 Tatum Channings IC
- 8 Incline Merkins IC
- 12 Channing Tatums IC
- 6 Decline Merkins IC
- 12 Tatum Channings IC
- 6 Incline Merkins IC
- 8 Channing Tatums IC (aka Right Leg Squat)
- 4 Decline Merkins IC
- 8 Tatum Channings IC
- 4 Incline Merkins IC
- 4 Channing Tatums IC (aka Right Leg Squat)
- 2 Decline Merkins IC
- 4 Tatum Channings IC
- 2 Incline Merkins IC
We did this on the baseball field bleachers and it was hell a loud. The guy opening the concession stand for the games later that morning came out to see what all of the commotion was about. He seemed fine with a bunch of dudes stomping on the bleachers, so he went back inside.
Dora 1-2-3: Partner up. Partner 1 bear crawls about 40 yards out and back, while Pax 2 works on the the prescribed exercise. Flapjack when Partner 1 gets back and continue exercise count as a team. Each team does 100 Merkins, 200 Squats, and 300 LBCs.
Mosey over to the playground
Bernie BLIMPS: Same partners. Pax 1 hangs from the pull-up bars, elbows bent at an L while Pax 2 goes through the following progression: 5 Burpees, 10 Lunges, 15 IW, 20 Merkins, 25 Plank Jacks, 30 Squats. Finished when the team makes it through the entire progression.
Mosey across River Road (Frogger) to the levee. After a test run down the concrete side and back up, we decided it was a worthy levee for 11s or Jacob’s ladder or quadraphilia or any other of our various levee downpainments.
Jacob’s Ladder: Run to the top of the levee and do one burpee. Down and back up for two burpees. Keep ascending until you reach 7 burpees.
Mary: 10 WWII sit-ups IC with feet toward the top of the levee.
Quadraphillia – Down the grassy side and back up, always facing the park. We only did a couple of minutes.
Mosey back to the flag for COT
Moleskin
Troubled Waters is a good AO that would be better if they didn’t lock up the baseball fields. There’s plenty of stuff to get creative here and the levee is a definite bonus. There are not a lot of big open spaces, so it will be tough once the numbers get huge. No worries though, we will just add a workout at the West Bank Bridge Park.
They have a Remote Control Race Track at this place. How weird is that? We had Coffeeteria at Donut Land, just down the road. Ask Kimchi how good the donuts are. While we were there we saw one of Torque’s buddies, who was apparently confused about the location of the workout, or exactly what the term workout means. At least he met us for donuts.
T-claps to Channel Mullet for his triumphant Kotter. T-claps to Yo-Yo. Not too many 14 year olds in the New Orleans area have the dedication to get up and workout at 6:30 Saturday mornings. He will be a man-child before long.
