Recon #3 of the new up and coming AO Boom Town Central aka BTC.  You may be thinking to yourself, “A third recon for a new AO?” Well you’d be surprised. This new AO should be called a MEGA-AO for all of the potential pain stations it possesses.  Make no mistake, the BTC will be a Boot Camp/Run AO because of the distance you must travel to get to all of the painful goodness.

To recap: The 1st Recon we just rolled with just what was around this area, with no idea what was in store. If I remember correctly the PAX that posted for that recon were impressed with the 3.1 miles of pain.  The 2nd recon Apache discovered a new trail that led to an area we determined most at least one or two PAX would need to bring a head lamp to traverse. That brings us to the 3rd recon.

THE THANG:

After a quick #TurkeyPunch & #EH of a South Carolina State Trooper wondering what in the world we were doing out at 5am, we stretched our legs before we moseyed.

We took a left at the loop of Tech park stopping at a hill just before the Comporium Building.

Mini-Quadzilla –

• 1 Merkin then NUR up the hill 1 Merkin at the top Run down
• 2 Merkins then NUR up the hill 2 Merkins at the top Run down
• 3 Merkins then NUR up the hill 3 Merkins at the top Run down
• 4 Merkins then NUR up the hill 4 Merkins at the top Run down
• 5 Merkins then NUR up the hill 5 Merkins at the top Run down

Mosey for a little light pole dealers choice did the following at each light pole we encountered

• Merkins
• Low Slow Squat
• Lunges
• LBC’s
• Al Gore (2 rounds)
• Plank while one PAX run to the next light pole and back
• 5 Diamond Merkins + 5 Reg. Merkins + 5 Wide Arm Merkins

Mosey to the Trail entrance

Italian Job took point at lead spider web catcher since he was the one with the head lamp. IJ turned off the head lamp to prove if a future Q uses this trail he will need some form of light to guide the way.

Moseyed to the Baxter Hood Center.  New undiscovered AO territory – At the first parking lot there were signs for 30 Minute Parking so at each parking spot we did 30 of the following

• Merkins
• Squats
• LBC’s
• Over Head Claps

Long mosey of the perimeter of the Baxter Hood parking lot. To the road behind and around York Tech College. Still undiscovered territory. Bazinga told the PAX to give all you got for about 100+/- yard to the stop light.

Mosey back through the Arrow Point Credit Union Parking lot so YHC’s runkeeper map would make a nice connected circle. That’s Q-OCD I suppose.

Finished up at COT after 2.85 mile run/boot. Not to shabby.

We will have, yes, one more Recon of the MEGA-AO of the BTC next Wednesday if any PAX would like to join in. Tentative launch of the BTC Boom Town Central Aug 3rd.

PS: for future BTC Qs – There is a grumpy old Bull Frog at the first bridge of the inner loop trail around Tech Park. We have decided to pay homage to the believed to be 100 year old frog and apologize to him for walking him up by doing 10 Groiners if he croaks at us for waking him up.

AYE!

Popeye OUT!