17 of the bravest pax of The Fort posted to #OldTown for a taste of the Boston Marathon’s Hearbtreak Hill plus some other abuse before and after.

The Thang

Warm up = 20 Burpees OYO

Thanks to Norfolk Southern the pax enjoyed the pleasure of an extra 10 Burpees for a total of 30

Run to parking garage (aka Heartbreak Hill today) and plank for six

Run to rooftop and do 10 Merkins
Run down two ramps to next floor and do 10 CDDs and run back to top and do 10 Merkins
Repeat sequence in suicide format to bottom then finish on the roof

Run down stairs to bottom cross to other staircase do 15 sumo squats run up stairs one floor and do 15 monkey humpers
Repeat sequence adding one floor up each trip in suicide format then finish on the roof

Time for some housekeeping duties like the disclaimer and the FNG check (whoops…yes, Houston, we have an FNG on board!)

Time for the obligatory SSHs x26

Run down stairs and down Main Street

Pause at Freedom Center (appropriate for Patriot’s Day) for some merkins/derkins waiting on the six

Run to breezeway next to Flipside
Bear crawl to far end, mosey back
backward bear crawl to far end, mosey back
Sideways bear crawl to far end, mosey back
Sideways bear crawl to far end, mosey back

Run down Main Street around Wells Fargo parking lot and back home

COT

Naked man moleskin

Patriot’s Day occurs on the 3rd Monday of April in Massachusetts and is the day the Boston Marathon is run from Hopkinton, MA to Boylston Street in the center of Boston.  The Fort was represented in this year’s race by Red Banjo.  After about 20 miles, with parts of the early going on a gradual decline, the course takes an abrupt shift with a two mile stretch from miles 20 to 22 through a series of hills.  This stretch is known as Heartbreak Hill.  We took the opportunity today to honor RB’s performance in getting to Boston (sub 3 hour marathon in Kiawah in Dec 2013) with a parking deck version of Heartbreak Hill, 26 SSHs and in classic RB fashion, some bear crawls.  He responded in Boston with a 3:01 finish running into a stiff  head wind for virtually the entire race.  Way to deliver, RB!

A  hearty Rock Hill welcome to Friday Night Lights (aka FNL), an FNG EH’d by Mailman.  Great to have a fellow Texan along for the rodeo today.  Apologies for the quite unhospitable launch, pardner.

Solid effort today by all pax!  We put in almost 3.4 miles at a strong pace plus some strength moves to boot.  YHC did not stop eating all day today, indicating a serious need to refuel and a long post-workout calorie burn from the intensity.

Great to see the terrific support the pax throughout the region are showing to Old Town.  It is a terrific way to start the week as evidenced by continued growth.  You are on a roll, POSH…keep it  up!

Always an honor to lead, men.  Have terrific week!