The word on the street Sunday night lead one to believe that the turnout for the Thicket would be low due to some of the PAX being swallowed up by Summer time vacations and other shenanigans. Much to YHC’s surprise, there would be 14 eager men waiting in the gloom, laughing, joking, talking, and in a jolly mood ready to work. So we got down to business.
WARM UP
30 Squat cross jab IC
25 SSH
15 IW
15 Willie Mays Hayes
THANG
After a quick warm up, the men were ready to head out from the Woods Charter school parking lot up into the village of Briar Chapel. Some of the PAX had a general idea that the YHC has an unhealthy relationship with the sewer return pipes that stick out of the ground in front of the undeveloped house plots like beacons in the gloom just begging for action. They were right. We would lunge to each pipe then hit the ground for 5 merkins, then repeat all the way to the top of the hill. We were just getting pumped up, hitting our stride you might say, and we took a right turn at the top of the hill and found more of the pipes we have come to love and hate that we would use. This time going down hill we would alternate bear crawl and lunging to each pipe stopping to complete 2 double merkin burpees at each beacon. At the bottom of the hill we would make a 180 and go back up the hill again alternating bear crawl and lunging to each pipe this time stopping to complete 1 burpee with ascending merkins starting with a double merkin burpee. The climax would be a 7 merkin burpee and a PAX ready to forget about the pipes and put burpees in our rearview. We would recovery run to the picnic tables at the Great Meadow gazebo to complete some dips. All the while, YHC was eyeing the outdoor ping pong tables to complete some box jumps and another fan favorite, *PPPs or ping pong table pull ups(*credit Jeter). After we completed sets of 10, 8 and 6 PPPs we moved on to find a field full of tennis balls and lone garden bucket. The PAX was instructed to bear crawl to a tennis ball and lunge back to deposit the ball into the bucket. After a few minutes it was clear that the men were better at this game than once thought so some balls had to be thrown out again to make the men work. DOI used this opportunity to throw balls at YHC, which he should have seen coming, ok I deserved it. After the group recovered all the balls we jogged over to the Pollard school snack shack to complete a balls to the wall-o-rama and a peoples chair-o-rama. A quick time check would reveal that we had a few more minutes to fill so what better way to fill them than to do more bear crawling. So we did. The men would bear crawl down the path beside the Pollard football field. Now time was a precious commodity and we had to double time it back to our starting point with a sprint up the hill to the Woods Charter parking lot. The humidity had us all drenched in glory, sweat and a profound sense of accomplishment. The Tour de’ Thicket location was complete and we were out of time. Great Job men and thanks to Subprime, Au Jus, Gordo and Blackball for posting with us in the gloom.
MARY
Out of time
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Sign up to Q the Thicket, or there will be more bear crawling and burpees.
2nd F at the Briar Chapel Pool pool Sunday 8/28. Email Matt Powell for more info.
COT
Good Job everyone!
