That Was Fun. Let’s Do It Again.

Motto of my week….That was fun. Let’s do it again. More on that in a minute (or several, depending on how quickly you read). 17 PAX took the DRP and headed into the gloom to get just a little faster, a little stronger, a little better. Or in YHCs case, a little sicker. Don’t worry, friends. I’m not contagious.

Anywho, the PAX couldn’t decide what the temperature was this morning, as was evident by the wide range of clothing choices. Some donned their leggings and long sleeves (YHC included), some donned the typical T-Shirt and Shorts. Gentlemen. It’s cold outside. No one thinks you’re any more macho because you are wearing less clothing. And no, I’m not a sissy for wearing long johns and long sleeves. I’m just smarter than you.

WARM UP

Jog rather briskly up the hill and around to the far concrete baseball. Circle up for Good Mornings, Merkins, Arm Circles, Windmills, Mountain Climbers, and not Side Straddle Hop (YHC tweaked something in his back and thought low impact would be best – again, that’s why I’m smarter than you).

THE THANG

Partner up, speed sorta matters. Catch Me If You Can around the perimeter of the 4 fields, which is ~0.5 mile. Partner 1 takes off running, Partner 2 does 10 Squat jumps, then chases. Squat hold when finished. That was fun. Let’s do it again. Reverse direction, with 10 Merkins this time. That was fun. Let’s do it again. This time with 10 Jump Lunges. That was fun. Let’s do it again. This time with 10 diamond Merkins. After 2 miles of catch me if you can, it wasn’t all that fun any more. Soooo, let’s move along.

Jog back around toward the cars, but stop at YHCs favorite hill (the one that’s always wet, for no apparent reason). One partner lines up at the bottom of the hill. Gorilla Hop to the top, touch the fence, then Crawl Bear down, then immediately repeato. The other partners Squat Hold until the first group is finished. Then flapjack. After everyone had a turn…That was fun. Let’s do it again. The burn was REAL on the last Gorilla Hop. No lie, that was pretty awful.

Jog to the basketball courts for 5 minutes of…

MARY

6 inch leg hold, 5 count around the circle. Follow that up with legs at 45 degrees with 5-count around the circle. Next was Rosalita, in cadence, up to 10 count. YHC looked around and noticed the PAX’s form was collectively terrible, so YHC kindly pointed out proper form, and we did another 10, in cadence. Much better. Then a 20 count of American Hammers to round it out. We’re done here.

COT

• Count-o-rama: 17
• Name-o-rama: Still 17. 3 RESPECTs, 14-ish mehs, 0-ish hate
• Announcements:
  • Christmas party – this Thursday at Mellow Mushroom in Cary. 6:30. Bring your M.
  • Toys for Tots – still collecting toys. Bring them to any and all AOs
  • That was fun. Let’s do it again. Talking about the 3rd F! We’re meeting again tomorrow after SNS at 6:45am at Bruegger’s.
  • More details about our Christmas Party Fundraiser coming soon. Like, within the next two days, I would assume.
• Prayers/Praises:
  • Khakis – has an opportunity to go to India on a mission, would be able to share the Gospel in his daughter’s home town. Prayers for provision of finances and other logistics!
  • Shut In – OG Shut In (i.e. Shutty’s dad) had emergency gall bladder surgery yesterday. All went well. Prayers for swift and full recovery!
  • Earhart – 2.0 undergoing outpatient surgery today. Pretty minor, but tell that to a 7 year old! Surgery is surgery, dog! Prayers for peace and also a swift and full recovery.

NMS

• Gunna keep this short today.
• LOL
• Anyway, TClaps to Khakis for getting screwed into being Largemouth’s partner. He was up to the challenge, however, and rocked it!
• Cobains for all the hacking and mucus spitting today. Getting over a bad cold? Go run a couple miles in sub-40 degree weather. That oughta help, right?
• Big TClaps to Ma Bell as well. He put a big-time EH on Recall to split a Q next week. I mean, Recall basically had no choice. Ma Bell laid it out there like, “Oh hey, Catch Me If You Can partner. You’re splitting the Q with me next week. Okay, see you later.” Boom. It’s on.
• Sky Blue doing the Gorilla Hops and Crawl Bears at the original scene of the crime was traumatic for everyone involved. Sorry for that, everyone. I have a lot to learn.
• I’ll never understand the machismo that leads men to do weird things like wear T-shirts in sub-4o degree weather. Just put another shirt on, bruh. We know you’re cold. We won’t judge you.
• No kidding, I tweaked my back as I turned to start running for the warm up. Is this was being old feels like?
• Alright, for reals, gunna keep this short. See you in the gloom

Callahan