It’s not quite fall but the temperatures were comfortably in the 60s and it was still dark at 0545 when a quorum of 35 PAX descended upon Fetzer Field in the heart of the UNC campus for their Manic Monday beatdown.
After a warmup of SSH x 25, IW x 10, Willie Mays Hays x 10, arm circles forward and back x 10, merkins x 10, Carolina dry docks x 10, half the group went with Sub Prime to pound the pavement and the other half with Shooter for a merkin-palooza.
Sub Prime’s gang ran the Fetzer stairs for warm-up and then:
* ¼ mile lap and 40 merkins; ¼ mile lap and 30 merkins, ¼ mile and 20 merkins, ¼ mile and 10 merkins (1 mile and 100 merkins).
* ¼ mile and 40 WWII’s, ¼ mile and 30 WWII’s, ¼ mile and 20 WWII’s, ¼ mile and 20 WWII’s (1 mile and 100 WWII’s).
* Repeat until Mary begins.
Meanwhile, Shooter’s group circled up on the IM soccer field for a series of circuits that began with some variety of 10 merkins, 10 modified burpees (no merkin), an ab/core exercise and then a 30-second bows-and-toes plank hold.
* Merkins
* Dead Stop merkins (chest on ground, arms up at bottom).
* One leg merkins on right.
* One leg merkins on left.
* Dive bomber merkins.
* Clap merkins.
* Traveling merkins.
* Pike merkins (or Carolina dry docks).
Afterward the Pax did walking lunges across the soccer field and sprinted back, then did bear crawls the same distance and sprinted back. Then we moved to the rock wall outside the entry gate for three circuits of half the group doing dips x 12, the other half People’s Chair, then switching.
Both groups reconvened for Mary:
20 x box cutters
15 x long, slow flutters
15 x Heels to Heaven
6” hold
20 x Freddie Mercuries
15 x Russian hammers
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