“Why are you getting up at 6 on a Saturday?” Actually, M Nessman, I’m getting up at 5:30. The ruck starts at 6. Nothing like 2 hours of fun to kick off your Saturday. This was a particularly fine morning in the gloom, more mild than the previous days. Enough about the weather.
Pre-ruck crew: YHC, Fava Bean, Mr. Rogers, Azul, Sir Zima. 3 miles, solid chatter.
Pre-run: Deliverance, Friar Tuck, Fazio.
Main Thang:
2 FNGs, disclaimer given.
Mosey to back parking lot: SSH x25, Imperial Walkers x20, Good Mornin x15, Mountain Climbers x20, Merkins x15.
Down to the track: Two lines, indian run 800m. Aggressive pace for a warm up jaunt.
Now for the real fun. Find a rock, find a partner to keep you company. Repeat 4 sets of exercises, then complete a 400m run. Exercises were as follows:
Rock curls x25, Rock squats x25, Rock Hammers x25, Hand release merkins x25, 400m
4 sets were completed in all. YHC called an audible and switched out hand release merkins for classic merkins halfway. In the end, One mile run, 100 curls, 100 squats, 100 hammers and 100 merkins. T-Claps to Azul for the ambitious partner choice of Waterboy (professional soccer player), strong work to hang with him. We recovered with 20 WWII sit-ups.
Bear crawl the ramp up to the school. Lunge walk over to the stairs. 5 count people’s chair by all 29 PAX before vacating the space so the yoga ladies could reclaim it.
To the front of the school. Guess what’s next? Bear crawl indian run!
Two lines planking head to foot, man at the back bear crawls to the front and resumes plank position. Lots of mumble chatter and hatred.
How about we let the shoulders recover with some sprints. Two lines side by side. Man at the front of each line sprints the length of the school, jog back. Everyone did 3 sprints.
Slide on over to the ramp. On your six under the rails. 10 pull ups on the rails in 4 count cadence.
Back to the cars for Mary. Think we did LBCs x30, Rosalita x20, Reverse LBCs x20.
Done.
Solid effort put forth by all the PAX this morning. Named our FNGs Shutout (2.0 of…) Chicken Chaser.
Announcements were: Labor Day convergences at Gideon, Zero Hour, Carroll, 7-8am. Extended ruck at Brier Creek Community Center, 1am on Saturday Aug. 22. Number of prayer requests lifted up that YHC unfortunately does not recall.
Azul took us out. An honor to lead you men as always.
