8 Pax posted at Abundance of Pain for some remedial abuse on the elementary school grounds.

The Thang

Launch from Nation Ford High School with warm up run to Sugar Creek Elementary School campus

COP – SSH x20, Mountain Climber x20, Imperial Walker x20, Peter Parker x12, Parker Peter x12

Run to hill behind school for Bear Crawl Marathon:
– Line up along fence line
– Bear crawl to top of hill
– Complete exercise at top
– Run to bottom and plank
– 8 Cycles up and back / 8 Exercises (each move called by one of the Pax: bomb jacks, merkins, squats, burpees, carolina dry docks, LBCs, squat thrusts, jumping lunges)

Run to side of school for Wall O’ Fun – People’s chair / balls to the wall (3 cycles)

Run around front of school to other side

Flower bed step ups – R x20, Lx20

Mosey to playground

Rotating pain stations – Pull-ups x10, merkins x15, dips x20 OYO (3 cycles)

Mary — Freddie Mercury x20, Flutter x20, Dollies x20

Mosey to basketball court

Suicides to each concrete seam and back for full length of court (3 cycles)

Run to JROTC building parking lot (head fake…not time for COT yet!)

Karaoke across and back

Merkins x10

Plank sequence

COT

We started a balmy morning with thoughts of our personal history…a challenge not just to reflect back and reminisce or make changes but to “own” our history – the good, the bad, the ugly.  To accept ourselves in all the messy and beautiful realities that are there so that we can turn to others around us in this holiday season with the same spirit.  We finished with a challenge to carry the traditions of the past forward and to create new traditions in this season — with our children, our family and our friends — especially in terms of finding ways to extend the tradition of community service to the next generation.

Looking backward took the form of action as well as word as we rolled back the clock from high school to elementary school in terms of workout grounds.  Apologies if we left any LIFOs in the dark not knowing where we were.

The Thanksgiving hangover was still lingering among the Pax at the start – talk of indulgence in food, drink and fun last week that needed to be redeemed.  I am pretty certain redemption was accomplished over the next 45 minutes!

Little Mike is proving himself to be quite the runner (is that Kiawah 2014 I hear?)…of course the basketball court suicides is where he felt most at home.

Especially nice work by all Pax on the Bear Crawl Marathon – no one took the easy path as each round pushed the Pax harder and harder to the end.  Well done brothers!