So this was the first time back to The Yard in a while.  Always a great AO so I was excited to be able to cover the Q when offered the opportunity.  The Yard starts at 7:00 and at 6:54 as I was the only one sitting in the parking lot I started checking Twitter and the web site to make sure the time and location had not been changed.  By 7:00 3 other pax rolled in and we had a few short comments and good mornings and then we were off.

Warm up with a short mosey around the back drive and back to the bus parking lot.  COP

• SSH x 15
• IW x 10
• Mountain Climber x 10
• Merkin x 10
• Slow squat x10

This was a busy morning at the Yard with a lot of traffic coming to drop off for some school activity or parade staging.  On the back driveway each light pole we had an exercise.  Five light poles start at 1st exercise, run to 2nd exercise, back to 1st then 2nd and 3rd back to the 1st and it goes until the five poles are completed.  Poles:

• 1st – Squats x 10
• 2nd – Merkins x 10
• 3rd – CDD x10
• 4th – Wide Arm Merkins x 10
• 5th – Full Sit ups

Mosey to back parking to escape the traffic.  Wasn’t hard to partner up and we did an exercise while the other partner ran the length of the lot and back and then switched.  Exercises were – SSH, Merkin, full sit up, dips, wall sit.

Mosey to the front lot with wall step ups, dips, derkins, lunge walk, partner assisted pull-ups under the breeze way and then some fast feet agility through the poles in the driveway.  With only a few minutes left we finished out with some Hello Dolly and crowd favorite of LBC with feet at 6 inches.

Time for COT….we discussed HOPE and what are you placing your hope in this season, year and next year.  We see people everyday that are hopeless and lost and we can be the Light for them and share Christ’s Love with them to turn hopelessness to hopeful.

We talked about the low number and how for this morning it was a perfect number.  The benefit of a low number is it will keep you accountable to do the full workout and not hide out and do half work.  It was also a benefit to get to know 3 more pax better than I knew them at 7:00.  Great work by all and a special shout out to Tico who has been out of the routine for over a year and this was his 3rd time back out.

Prayers and praises were lifted by each pax.  Special request for Car Bomb and his M as they are expecting their first child very soon.

Thanks to Hasselhoff for the opportunity to Q and Cake Boss for being out of town and I could take his spot.  Always a pleasure to Q.