A post from The Windy City… Barry Manilow and I were in Chicago and decided to Barry Man-Up and post… You know… like men.

Here’s what happened: YHC took a brisk .7 mile run to Barry Manilow’s hotel, then we were off to the edge of the river.

Down 2 flights of long stairs and mosey to the path for a little warm-up…
A little stretching then off to the rest of the Thang:
SSH x 20 (IC)
Merkins x 20 (IC – right on the edge of the River)

Mosey then stop at park bench
Triceps dips on the bench x 20 OYO
Derkins x 20 OYO
Step-ups x 20 (10 each leg) OYO

Mosey again to a bike rack and partner up.
Partner 1 starts incline pullups while partner 2 sprints 30 yards to second dock gate. Flapjack to 60 pullups.

Mosey then stop at another bench at bottom of long hill
Incline merkins x 20 OYO
Box jumps x 20 OYO
More dips x 20 OYO

Then 2 trips up the hill and back as fast as you can.

Mosey to playground (which was amazing, BTW)
Merkin swing crunch (feet in swing, 1 merkin then crunch knees to chest) x 20 OYO
Slide down short slide (how long has it been since I slid down a slide???)
Bear crawl up steep part of hill to one of the main structures
Grab the chain “netting” overhead and do 20 knee-ups to chest OYO

At this point it was time to head back, so we moseyed the 1.4 back to where we started for a quick bit of Mary with our last couple of minutes.

LBCs x 20 (IC)
Flutters x 20 (IC)

COT and (Ping-pong) Ball of Man

All in all we covered just under 3 miles with YHC getting a little extra credit between hotels (another 1.4 or so)

Moleskin:
So, Barry Manilow and YHC are both on the board of the Carolinas Chapter of the Business Marketing Association, and their annual International Conference was this week in Chicago, and we both went. TClaps to Barry for EHing me into bringing my running shoes before we left. The guy is turning into a real animal. I could have been perfectly content to skip today and sleep in a little, but my brother was there to hold me accountable. Here we were, miles from our normal post, miles from anyone who would have known or busted our chops for not working out, and yet we did. This is not a thing that would have happened a year ago. For either of us. There is no way I would have gotten up early, gone out alone, in a strange place, to work out. Iron Sharpens Iron, however, and so being with another Accelerating Man made all the difference. It always will… it always will…

Helmet, out…