I promised no burpees, no bear crawls, and no partner carries. I’m not sure people believed me, but they came anyway. I delivered on the promise. The workout still sucked. At least a little… Plus there was math, so there’s that.

Everybody gives Pusher a bad time about “rinsing and repeating” or “stealing” a first half Q’s workout and just doing the same thing again… I don’t know that I’ve actually ever seen it happen, but it must have happened like once and, of course, the Pax just can’t let it go. Regardless, it may be fitting that if I was about to repeat (with slight modification) a workout, it should be his.

A couple of months ago, Pusher led us on a run through Ft. Mill, stopping at different points along the way where we performed different exercises. Everyone had a piece of chalk and they recorded on the ground the number of reps that they were able to perform in a 2 minute (or was it one minute?) period. Then we followed back the same route we came and we were instructed that we were to do the same number of reps that we did the first time that we were there plus one more. The idea being that you always have one more in you, even when you think you don’t. I loved it, which is why I stole it.
Warm up with a couple of laps (thanks Bones – at least someone is responsible enough to show up on time to get things going) around the parking lot – then head to the back of the school and circle up on the “track”.
Windmills, Merkins, Squats, etc. on the warm-up menu, then on to the rest

– We started at the far end of the track and began with Merkins. AMRAP for 2 minutes, then record your reps on the ground.
– Then we ran to the other end of the track where it was squats for 2 minutes, and record the number.
– Run past the playground and up to the top of the driveway hill to the right and it was SSHs for 2, then record.
– Run down the hill and stop near the school for CDDs, then record.
– Run past the school to the right and to the dead end where the guard rail is and do dips for 2, then record.
– Run to the edge of the parking lot past the small playground for curb step ups in cadence to 30 (this was the last stop before we went backwards in the order)

Here’s where it modified from Pusher’s… instead of repeating and adding to the number that you did before, we took the highest number of reps that a Pax did and then split it up to where the whole group did the number, and then the guy who did the highest number did one more so that we beat the number together. (e.g. On the first round, Bones did 88 merkins in the time allotted. On the way back, the whole group did 88 total, 14 each, then Bones did 5 additional to beat the original number… if that makes any sense…)

A little Mary finished off our time together, and that was that.

NMM:
So… obviously the idea here is that it’s easier to do things all together than it is to do it alone. Such an obvious message might not have much impact, but you should have seen their faces when they thought they were going to have to go back and increase their own count by one. Yeah… it wasn’t terror, but it wasn’t happiness either.

I managed to not trip even though there was more running in this workout than usual for me. We ran over 2 miles. I also didn’t do all the burpees, bear crawls, and partner carries that i promised not to do.

Always a pleasure to lead and to be with the Pax.

Helmet, out.