Every now and then, the site Q pulls his own card to Q. Today was my day, and I’d be lying to say that I spent a ton of time putting together the perfect workout. In reality, I threw together something that I knew would be challenging for everybody, but accessible to anybody. I arrived early with my 2.0’s chalk to get the workout written, then parked and waited for the PAX to arrive.
0515 rolled around and 8 joined YHC (with Copyright silently running up at near-sprint speed) for the disclaimer. We set off for a quick mosey around Home Depot, through the alley (with high knees, butt kickers, knees-to-chests, heels-to-butts, and toy soldiers), and circling up near the always-vacant restaurant space.
COP
- 10 Windmills
- 10 Imperial Walker
- 10 Merkins
- 10 Peter Parkers
- Downward dog, cross over ankle grabs, honeymooner
Mosey to the fountain for the Thang.
Thang
As stated above, this was designed to be challenging but also accessible. Go at your own pace and get as far as you can. Around the fountain parking lot were twelve exercises to do as a ladder. Start at station 1, do the exercise, run to station 2, do the exercise, run back to 1, do exercise at 1, run to 2, exercise, run to 3, exercise, back to 1, etc. It adds up. Fast.
Stations:
- 20 bomb jacks
- 20 merkins
- 10 burpees
- 20 squat jumps
- 20 archer merkins
- 10 Tony Hawk burpees
- 20 runner’s lunge high knee skips (apparently my current favorite exercise)
- 20 breakdancer merkins (they’re back!)
- 10 prison cell burpees
- 20 lateral lunge leg lifts
- 20 pseudo planche merkins
- 10 kraken burpees
A couple gazelles got into the round going to prison cell burpees, but didn’t make it to them. Everybody got to the round of breakdancers, though not all got to enjoy those. All in, everybody got over 1.75 miles of running, 80-90 burpees, 200+ merkins (not including the merkins in the burpees), and a lot of jumping (120 bomb jacks, anyone?). Actually, reading this, it doesn’t look like much. My body says otherwise.
Olaf decided to ruck it, and we heard about it the whole time. He’ll definitely be feeling it later.
Mosey back to COT. A few announcements (read your newsletter), and a few PAX shared some pretty big prayer requests.
No big message today, just a good workout to get back into the swing of things after spring break. I’m always encouraged and pushed by the guys who post to Quagmire. We aren’t big on the flashy, but we work hard. Great group of regulars. If you haven’t posted to Quagmire in a while, come out and see us.
Jedi