Five of Fort Mill’s finest descended on a car-packed parking lot at WEP. A few of the cars belonged to 3 wayward pax running in the spirt of old-school LacesOut. But the rest of the cards remand a mystery. One thing for sure was that they all missed out on a late-week beatdown.

Warm-up o’Rama
Pax started with a mosey on the path circling WEP in a counterclockwise fashion, stopping at each drill bit (and some imaginary drill bits) to perform warm-up exercises, which included (but not limited to):

* SSH x30
* Windmills x10 >> Toy Soldiers >> Run
* IW Squats x15 >> Butt Kicker >> Run
* Peter Parkers x15 >> High Knee >> Run
* Step Lunges x10, Mack Tar Jai (sp?) >> Shuffle left/right >> Run
* Parker Peter x10

The Thang
Once we reach the hill on the south-west side, pax discovered the an array of cones to be used for suicide circuits. Here’s how it worked:

Pax asked to partner up, size doesn’t matter.
The overall movements of this exercise is similar to a suicide where pax start at cone #1, go to cone #2, then back to #1, then to #3 and back to #1, etc. Total of 5 cones, but there are a few modifications to up the pain level.

• Each time the pax depart from cone #1, they must do 5 burpees
• Each time the pax reach (or pass) a cone as they travel away from cone #1, they must do the exercise on the cone. For example, if they are on their way to Cone 3, they must stop at Cone 2 and do that exercise (again).
• Traveling away from Cone 1, they pax should run. Traveling back toward Cone 1, pax must do the moving exercise written on the cone (like bear crawls) instead of running.
• Each team of pax must stay together. Some of the moving exercises involve partners.

For this exercise, there were 5 cones, where cone #1 was at the bottom of the steep hill. Remember, 5 burpees to start, and for each return back to Cone #1. The rest of the cones were labeled as follows:

Cone 2 – Mountain Climbers x20 w/ Crab Walks as return exercise
Cone 3 – Russian Twists x20 w/ Bear Crawls as return exercise
Cone 4 – Merkins x20 w/ Partner 1 Wheelbarrow as return exercise
Cone 5 – Plank Jacks x20 w/ Partner 2 Wheelbarrow as return exercise

Once done with the first round, another set of cones were set up as follows (still using the hill, but going the other direction on the path once we got to the top).

Cone 2 – Slow Sumo Squats x20 w/ Crab Walks as return exercise
Cone 3 – Plank Punches x20 w/ Bear Crawls as return exercise
Cone 4 – Hello Dollies x20 w/ Partner 2 Wheelbarrow as return exercise
Cone 5 – Dry Docks x20 w/ Partner 1 Wheelbarrow as return exercise

The hill seemed to get taller and steeper with every clime. Java and Figaro helped distract from the pain by discussing how certain red lights in Fort Mill are holding hostage the law-abiding drivers of this growing town.

Time ran out, and we headed back to COT. Excellent work by all men. Mucho thanks to Lil’ E for allowing me to Q.