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  • Kicks on Route 66 – from Hogs Breath

    YHC was hopeful that an Fng would show up this am.
    YHC arrived 10 minutes early set up to shovel flag in awaited. Alas, at 5:30 Hogs Breath stood alone. The phone dinged and a message from Royal Ralph saying he was running late. So I got a couple of laps in while I waited. At 5:37 the headlights of Royal Ralph appeared.

    A warm-up of some windmills butt kicks self-love, a few other things.
    The Thang
    We conducted a route 66 using the light poles around the circle perimeter of the 007. Big Boi Sit ups at the start, and Merkins at each light pole. We progressed from 1 merkin/big boi up to 11. We finished with the last set of sit ups at precisely 6:15 AM.

    Ended with the circle of trust with prayers for the nation and each other as HIM in the community. The Fng did text saying he had bloodwork this am, so we will remain hopeful for the future.

  • Tabata in Africa – from Hogs Breath

    Pass Interference and I met at the shovel flag and began our weekly start of the week ritual.

    Warm up:

    Toy Soldiers, slow butt kicks, Abe Vigodas, imperial walkers, hill billies, and SSH.

    The Thang,
    To commemorate Murdoch’s upcoming Africa trip, we played “Africa” by ToTo. The pax had his choice of SSH, Imperial walker, or Hill Billy and every time “Africa” was mentioned, we did a burpee. Basically, “Africa” is mentioned a lot less than I originally remembered. So the total amount of burpee’s was only about 10…
    The next thing was a trip to the coupon pile and selecting a coupon. We traded it back and forth while we mosey’d back to the shovel flag.
    A round of Tabata. 20 seconds on, 10 seconds rest for eight rounds. Exercises included a coupon hop over, mountain climbers, and squats. In the middle, a pickup truck pulled up and Royal Ralph arrived. Tclaps for showing up, many newcomers would be deterred from showing up if they messed up the time or showed up late, but not Royal Ralph! Royal still arrived, albeit 25 mins late! He jumped into Tabata with us, followed by a mosey around the park. And finishing with 5 mins of Mary.
    Ended with COT and coffeteria at Starbucks.

  • Loosely borrowed – from Pass Interference

    I’ve made it a habit of piecing together a beatdown by scanning Beatdowns on our website, so why should this be any different? Knowing we had one pax in a long term injury recovery process, and another only joining for the 2nd time, I wanted to make it challenging but not beyond reason.

    So, away we went!

    The warmup:
    – mountain man poopers (since Hogs was here)
    – copperhead squats
    – SSH I think, hard to remember due to lack of sleep

    The thang:
    – First we went near the playgorund, to do a modified “morning call” (which I brought from Badapple AO at #F3Alpha). Instead of everyone doing a set of pullups, I had everyone do dips, while the other pax did merkins, round robin til everyone got their dips in.
    – Then we did a scout run (not sure what to call it), where I had one person run from the playground to the permanent flag in the back of the park, and back, while the other 3 did 5 burpees, 10 squats and 15 big boys. Each man ran and the others completed the exercises.
    – Then it was time to mosy to the trail and do a dora, since there were 4. We split into teams and knocked out 100/200/300 of whatever came to mind at the time.

    Mary followed and we made it out alive!