A beautiful cool morning brought 5 pax to the Pantheon for a progressively painful beatdown. It all started with a 4:30 pre-run with myself and Fishsticks totally about 4 miles (In retrospect, this was a terrible idea. Legs felt like jelly the rest of the day.) Then 3 more joined us at 5:15 for the rest of the festivities.

We stared with a mosey around the front parking loop adding in some butt kickers, high knees, side shuffle and toy soldiers. We circled up on the soccer field for a quick warmup:

• SSHs x25
• Imperial Walkers x15
• Wind Mill x10
• Merkins x10
• Plank Jacks x15
• Morracan Nightclubs x25

With us good and warm we got after it. We started by making our way around the outside of the soccer field. First you would side shuffle the length, then bear crawl the width, sprint the length and finish with bear crawling the width. This was so enjoyable that we R&R but changed the bear crawl to broad jumps.

This took its toll so we did  2 quick 10 counts and moseyed to the front of the school for the next thing.

I setup 3 stations (Cross walk, a cone approx 50 ft away & the stop sign) in a straight line. Pax would pair up and work there way through the cones.

Cone 1: Partner A: 10 Merkins; Partner B: 15 Jump Squats; Partner A: 20 LBCs; Both 1 Burpee
Cone 2: Partner B: 10 Merkins; Partner A: 15 Squats: Partner B: 20 LBCs; Both 2 Burpees
Cone 3: Continue pattern adding 1 burpee at each cone

The goal was to continue this pattern until we got to 16 burpees, we got close (14 Burpees). In total each Pax completed:

• 70 Merkins
• 105 Jump Squats
• 140 LBCs
• 105 Burpees
• Covered about 1.5 miles

Great work by all the Pax to push through the pain.

We moseyed back to COT early and had some time for a few minutes of an AB Lab.

Thanks to Fishsticks for the chance to lead.

Until next time, back to the hunt…