19 of Fort Mill’s best men gathered at The Ballroom to get a little workout in on Tuesday morning. For YHC it was an especially exciting morning since it was my VQ. After having it handed to me so many times from the great Qs in the area over that past few months, I wanted to make sure I returned the favor. Plus, when you’re partnered up with a guy like Zima for the USMC Mud Run, you better bring it strong whether it’s your VQ or 100^th Q.

The Thang:

5:15 was my first attempt at a disclaimer; the delivery alone said “not a professional.” And then we were off! We start with a mosey out of the parking lot toward the warehouse buildings down to first warehouse intersection, hang a left and run up to the fence behind Fort Mill Hyundai where everyone circles up for COP.

• SSH X 25
• Windmill X 20
• Imperial Squat Walkers X 15 (insert groaning PAX)
• Mountain Climber X 10
• 6 inch 10 sec hold X 3

All warmed up? This AO is littered with opportunity, time for some fun!!! Mosey back to the warehouse intersection and wait for the rest of the PAX. Maximus looks up the the hill and says, “That’s a long hill.” We divide into pairs and start running. The objective is for each partner team to complete 100 wide arm merkins before the running can stop. After a good amount of grunting and the six coming in it was time for a rinse and repeat but this time with a 100 regular merkins.

On the way up for the final set YHC is mid-stride with Zima, and asks “This is going faster than I thought, think we should do another one of these?” Zima replies, “How about 200 squats?” DONE!! So we again rinse and repeat the run but this time with 200 squats.

After a couple of 10 counts it’s time to bring the heart rate down a little so we make a short mosey to the wall near Fort Mill Hyundai and take a seat in the People’s Chair for a 60 second count followed by a 15 count of the famed Moroccan Night Club. Rinse and repeat that combo and off on a mosey again.

This time we head all the way to the end of the warehouse main street, which I have to admit I remembered as being shorter on my scouting trip, to the parking lot at the end of the street. The parking lot also appeared smaller from my steering wheel. So audible it is. The lot is divided in sections so the PAX bear crawls to the first divider, flips it around and crab walks to the end and celebrates with 10 burbees. All the good Qs I mentioned before taught me that every good workout has burbees. Once done with the burbees run back the starting point and plank up for the PAX.

Whoa, time is running short time to head back up the hill to the parking lot. After a nice jog up the hill the PAX circles up to finish with an ab lab.

We welcomed TWO FNGs this morning. The first was took the name Pappy as in Pappy Van Winkle. The second took the name Capone due to his love of the movie The Godfather. Welcome to you both!!

Reminders made to continue the support for the CAH and prep for the mud run on 4/11.

Thank you for all that came out to support my VQ! You truly made it rewarding!