I don’t know, it just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
But hey, that’s what you get when you cut off two fingers and a few left turns. Apparently Legal and Bean could further trim the route if Tank doesn’t return from his European vacation soon.
T-claps to Parrot for getting some extra, and to William for his ever-improving one mile sprint.
Coffeteria followed, where we learned not to wade into Bushwacker’s reading history – some things you just don’t want to know.
Warm-ups followed by a lap down to the bottow and back up to the top. Then it was time to bust out the Dice built by Whacker. One die had a number, the other die had the exercises. Each person rolled the exercise die once the number die was rolled. First round number: 25. The exercises were burpees, 8 count body builders, and wife pleasers.
The second number: 20. The exercises: merkins, jump squats, leg lifts. The final number: 10. The exercises: burpees, right elbow left knee, left elbow right knee, and tbh I forgot the 3 exercise. Then it was a recovery walk to the end of the parking lot with a 35 pound weight, jump rope, and a core exercise. 1 minute at each station. The 35 pound weight was rifle carried (shoulder press to intesify), squat thrusters for round 2, and curls for girls for round 3. COT and Darkwing prayed us out.
My favorite part of Q’ing a Gipper beatdown? The disgusted look on Moby’s face when he finds out I have the Q and starts muttering obscenities under his breath. It warms my heart and makes me realize that some tiny part of me actually looks forward to being Moby’s age.
Light chatter among the gathering crowd before a group of us took off on the 1 mile pre-thang, which saw a little excitement today: a silver sedan barreling down Theard and blaring Fortunate Son, thought it’d be a wise idea to take a left turn (and, mind you, not an intersection empty of… say, 5 running pedestrians) at 65 mph and accelerating, nearly taking out Einstein. Of course, you can’t take Einstein down that easily – he deftly outmaneuvered both the vehicle and a large puddle without much effort. I guess all those ice skater hops and star jumps have paid off. The whole episode became slightly awkward when we then caught up with Fogerty only a block later, to find him gently reversing into his apartment parking spot (still full volume with the Creedence, though; I’m sure his neighbors love him).
Having survived a brush with death and safely back at the Gip, we found a nice crowd of 10 for the Juneteenth holiday. Knocked out the usual warmorama before taking off for the back of the Justice Center for a routine of 3 exercises, 15 reps of each, followed by a lap around the courtyard and another 3 exercises:
– Merkins, Squats, Dollies (IC)
– Hand-release Merkins, Bobby Hurleys, Gas Pumps (IC)
– T-Merkins, Lunges, Dying Cockroaches (IC)
– Staggered Merkins, Star Jumps, Box Cutters (IC)
– Wide Merkins, Sister Mary’s, Wife Pleasers (IC)
Chatter of Shooter’s burpeepalooza from the day before – a routine named “Hightower” (but apparently NOT after the character in Police Academy?!?) – sent our Pax down the 80’s rabbit hole, with characters and quotes from One Crazy Summer, Better Off Dead, and others being bandied about.
Next up, over to the front of the Justice Center for the usual leg routine:
x12 IC Step ups, Freak Nasties, Step Ups (other leg), Derkins -> 5x calf raises up each step
x12 IC Bulgarians, Freak Nasties, Bulgarians (other leg), Derkins -> 5x calf raises up each step
x12 IC Step downs, Freak Nasties, Step downs (other leg), Derkins (we caught you doing extra derkins, Moby – so don’t be acting like this was a hard beatdown!)
After solving the mystery of whether it was a Yorkshire terrier or Amber Heard that crapped the bed, it was finally time to call it and return to the flag. COT, announcements (more brutal Spartan training at the Scramble and an Akbar 5-year anny on Saturday), and then Einstein prayed us out with intentions for the Perrin family, the Tillery family, and Grundy’s new baby. It was really great to be back at the Gipper, made me realize just how much I miss this AO and the Covington Pax. Thank you gents for having us and for the opportunity to lead!
4 HIMs to the 💊 this Gloom to get out at Granny’s and put in some work..
Warmup of 15IC Imperial walkers, SSH, Cherry pickers, front claps and Grass grabbers..
Moseyed down Girard toward the lake stopping at every second block to complete a round of the HighTower (check Exicon for description) Burpees of all sorts of variations was had along the way with the final set performed in the overflow lot of OLL. Utilized for 4x back pedals and sprints.. Returned to AO for Wife pleasers and L/R elbow to knee 15IC..
Closed out with prayers for the Tillery family, as well as recent news from a former 10k students family… 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!
PAX: Akbar, Waterpik, Fletch, Shooter
Great to see some part time visitors this gloom with Shooter on hiatus from Hanz and Franz Monday with Tank, and Fletch off of work. Hammer was fart sacking with much needed recovery from Spartan training. After some greetings and mumblechatter, we got started with Self-Love, Arm Circles, SSH, Grass Grabbers, Windmills, hillbillies, imperial walkers, 10 count hamstring stretch.
Lunge walk to the Playground – 3 sets of 10 pull ups, 10 Hanging knee raises, 10 Merkins OYO
Lunge walk to the street – for 6 Corners
Starting out at Livingston, left on Marigny to Madison and back. Different counts and variations at each intersection consisting of Stone Mountain, Superman, Apolo Ohno. 20 to 5 on Q’s call – IC and OYO.
Mosey to the benches for: Freak Nasty, Bulgarian Split Squats, Dirkins – 2 sets x10 IC. 3rd set was a 40 count hold in the middle for each exercise, dropping to 20 count hold on Dirkins – we were spent.
Mary – Crunchy Frog, Jane Fonda, Hello Dolly, Rosalita
Count, Name, and Fletch prayed us out
Intentions: Little girl who lost her sister and mom in the weekend Amber Alert. Bird’s extended family with the loss of his brother’s son. Pik surgery this week.
Announcements: 4 on the Fourth, 911 run, Spartan Dallas race in October, YHC 5 year anniversary next Saturday.
Always a pleasure to start my week out right with y’all.
Until next gloom – Akbar 👊💪
A bunch of dads ran!
The title explains it all except for the warmup and core wrap up..
Warmup
Mixture of 12IC and 20IC
Selflove, Cherry Pickers, Arm circles, Butt kicks, Grass Grabbers, Good Mornings.
Thang
Walls of Jericho
8 count Bodybuilders, Merkins, Mountain climbers 2/1, Flutter kicks 2/1, LBCs, Jump squats and Sister Mary Katherine’s 2/1..
Wrapup
Bridges, wife pleasers, Superman’s and Nolan Ryan’s..
Appreciate the post gents and until the next Gloom. 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼
As for the norm, I showed up and there was Jose and Moby doing their normal prethang together. Fast pace walk with good conversation. I jumped in to join in the rant a little. Einstein joined then came Darkwing.
Warm-ups: of course, we’re old, we need extra stretches to get the body going.
First thing: 11’s on the ramp. Merkins on the top, squats on the bottom. Vary how you go up and down the ramp. About halfway through, Jose needed a break. He almost splashed merlot. That’s when we heard about his dinner last night. On his journey to lose weight for the Beast, he decided to eat a healthy dinner of 2 scrambled eggs. He took out his Caribbean hot sauce, opened the top, turn it over to splash a little of hot sauce, he accidentally poured half the hot sauce onto his eggs. A normal, intelligent man would have simply made two new eggs. Did Jose do that? Nope, the goofball didn’t want to waste the foreign hot sauce. After dinner, he proceeded to have a night filled with Tums and Pepto.
After the 11’s, bear crawls came next. 1/3 of the parking lot, normal bear crawls, 1/3 crawl to the left, 1/3 crawl to the right the length of the parking lot. Then it was time for core: leg lifts, big boys, penguins, box cutters, wife pleasers. Then to the stairs, 2 calf raises each step to the bottom, 20 merkins, run across the parking lot, back to the stairs for 2 calf raises back up. COT, prayers for the poor girl who lost her mother and younger sister yesterday, and for Bird’s family
The Hammer decided that it’s time to up the preparation for the Spartan Beast in October. Since YHC is off for the summer, I get to write the backblast. It’s only fair, since he created the workout. 6 arrived at 5 for 6 stations, 1 minute at each station, then rotate. The stations: dirkins, knee ups, planter carries (grip strength prep), rifle carries, pull-ups (which for round two turned into knee ups, then for round 3 was a dead hang), and the last was a 1 minute plank. 3 rounds total in 15 minutes, give or take. Then we moved to the running. 20 burpees followed by 1 lap around the park. 4 rounds of this was rough. The chatter was on point as usual. YHC brought the music which reminded the music videos of ACDC. Unfortunately, I cannot remember which videos I was supposed to come home and compare.
One runner: Waterpik
3 ruckers went 20 minutes out, 20 minutes back: Russo, Chewy, and Akbar. From what I gathered, they nearly solved all the world problems on the way out, and focused on conspiracy theories on the way back. Something about chem trails….Not quite sure.
I believe that we are going to try and make this a Thursday thing for my fellow Spartan warriors. If you have any ideas to prepare for the Spartan, please share.
COT with Hammer praying us out. Intentions: continued prayers for Bird’s family, and a Happy Fathers Day to all the Dad’s out there. SYITG!
The Hammer decided that it’s time to up the preparation for the Spartan Beast in October. Since YHC is off for the summer, I get to write the backblast. It’s only fair, since he created the workout. 6 arrived at 5 for 6 stations, 1 minute at each station, then rotate. The stations: dirkins, knee ups, planter carries (grip strength prep), rifle carries, pull-ups (which for round two turned into knee ups, then for round 3 was a dead hang), and the last was a 1 minute plank. 3 rounds total in 15 minutes, give or take. Then we moved to the running. 20 burpees followed by 1 lap around the park. 4 rounds of this was rough. The chatter was on point as usual. YHC brought the music which reminded the music videos of ACDC. Unfortunately, I cannot remember which videos I was supposed to come home and compare.
One runner: Waterpik
3 ruckers went 20 minutes out, 20 minutes back: Russo, Chewy, and Akbar. From what I gathered, they nearly solved all the world problems on the way out, and focused on conspiracy theories on the way back. Something about chem trails….Not quite sure.
I believe that we are going to try and make this a Thursday thing for my fellow Spartan warriors. If you have any ideas to prepare for the Spartan, please share.
COT with Hammer praying us out. Intentions: continued prayers for Bird’s family, and a Happy Fathers Day to all the Dad’s out there. SYITG!
