8 men made the correct choice and posted to a gladiator workout instead of the tiny-arm tango across town. CSPAN, who had verbally confirmed his attendance less than 8 hours before decided to #fartsack…he missed out.  We started at 5:15 on the dot and began a shoulder burner.

Warm-up – mosey around the loop and then over to the basketball courts with a combo of butt-kickers, high knees, karaoke and backwards mosey.

25 SSH, 15 IW, 15 slooow merkins, 15 overhead claps, plank series including the crowd-pleasing sit-through, Peter Parkers and Mtn. Climbers.  Then something new: the #loophole stretch x10.  I wanted to get the shoulders warmed up a bit more so this was the trick: hands extended overhead and out in front with palms facing you (1); rotate your arms around making a large circle overhead (2) until the meet in the back (3) and then back to the front (ONE).

Mosey to the loop curb: 20 #RollingThunder…these are always “easy” with lots of chatter until you hit around 10…

Mosey back to the basketball courts: 4 hours of #ClockworkMerkins

Mosey over the the football stands for a few loops up and down the stairs (partial recon) and then back over to the base of the hill:

1. Bear crawl up switching to reverse bear crawl midway.  Rinse and Repeat in reverse (starting w/ reverse bear crawl);
2. Hill Sprints x 5 ending with 10 burpees OYO at the top.

Mosey over and around and back to the base of the steps by the hill: #Step-frogs (this is a horrible name, someone please think of something better…)  Goes something like this: Merkin position on the steps, perform a Merkin and then do a dynamic Merkin to advance up the next step.  Repeat until you get to the top.  Rinse & repeat.  (No lost teeth = win!)  Ab lab while waiting for the six.

Mosey back to the base of the hill: Hill sprints x5

Mosey back to the basketball courts: 2 hours of #ClockworkMerkins

Mosey to the near wall:  Peoples Chair w/ 25 Moroccan Nightclubs, Recover, Peoples Chair with 25 Overhead claps.

Mosey to the some other wall: Balls to the wall with a 45-degree to 90 degree progression.  Rinse & Repeat x3

Mosey back over to COT w/ a short ab-lab so nobody felt cheated by ending 90 seconds early.

Always a pleasure to Q at this AO – so many options and always a great group.  Thanks for the opportunity, Maximus!  Also want to thank Anchorman for hearing my call and Apache for making the trip across the river