19 of Fort Mill’s best men gathered at The Ballroom to get a little workout in on Tuesday morning. For YHC it was an especially exciting morning since it was my VQ. After having it handed to me so many times from the great Qs in the area over that past few months, I wanted to make sure I returned the favor. Plus, when you’re partnered up with a guy like Zima for the USMC Mud Run, you better bring it strong whether it’s your VQ or 100^th Q.

The Thang:

5:15 was my first attempt at a disclaimer; the delivery alone said “not a professional.” And then we were off! We start with a mosey out of the parking lot toward the warehouse buildings down to first warehouse intersection, hang a left and run up to the fence behind Fort Mill Hyundai where everyone circles up for COP.

• SSH X 25
• Windmill X 20
• Imperial Squat Walkers X 15 (insert groaning PAX)
• Mountain Climber X 10
• 6 inch 10 sec hold X 3

All warmed up? This AO is littered with opportunity, time for some fun!!! Mosey back to the warehouse intersection and wait for the rest of the PAX. Maximus looks up the the hill and says, “That’s a long hill.” We divide into pairs and start running. The objective is for each partner team to complete 100 wide arm merkins before the running can stop. After a good amount of grunting and the six coming in it was time for a rinse and repeat but this time with a 100 regular merkins.

On the way up for the final set YHC is mid-stride with Zima, and asks “This is going faster than I thought, think we should do another one of these?” Zima replies, “How about 200 squats?” DONE!! So we again rinse and repeat the run but this time with 200 squats.

After a couple of 10 counts it’s time to bring the heart rate down a little so we make a short mosey to the wall near Fort Mill Hyundai and take a seat in the People’s Chair for a 60 second count followed by a 15 count of the famed Moroccan Night Club. Rinse and repeat that combo and off on a mosey again.

This time we head all the way to the end of the warehouse main street, which I have to admit I remembered as being shorter on my scouting trip, to the parking lot at the end of the street. The parking lot also appeared smaller from my steering wheel. So audible it is. The lot is divided in sections so the PAX bear crawls to the first divider, flips it around and crab walks to the end and celebrates with 10 burbees. All the good Qs I mentioned before taught me that every good workout has burbees. Once done with the burbees run back the starting point and plank up for the PAX.

Whoa, time is running short time to head back up the hill to the parking lot. After a nice jog up the hill the PAX circles up to finish with an ab lab.

We welcomed TWO FNGs this morning. The first was took the name Pappy as in Pappy Van Winkle. The second took the name Capone due to his love of the movie The Godfather. Welcome to you both!!

Reminders made to continue the support for the CAH and prep for the mud run on 4/11.

Thank you for all that came out to support my VQ! You truly made it rewarding!

The virtual shovel flag was planted and 21 men got off to a great start this morning with the 2nd official offering of The Ballroom.  This is how it went:

The Thang:

Mosey from the parking lot, down the short hill and head down the road toward the big warehouses.  Do a U-turn and go up/down,  ziggy/zaggy on the grassy hill, and then  follow the road to the lot behind Fort Mill Ford.

COP

SSH x 40, merkin x 10, Windmill x 20, LBC x 25, Squat x 26, MC x 25

Mosey back to the main road and up to the grassy patch.  Starting at the tree line, do the following:

Bear crawl down the grass, across the road, and up the grass hill – jog back (repeat once)

Side shuffle down the grass, acrooss the road… (repeat once)

Backwards bearcrawl, down the grass, across the road…(no repeat – these are hard!)

Jog down the grass, across the road…(repeat, only sprint the second time)

Everybody cross the road and find a spot on the grassy hill for clock merkins:

Assume the plank position move your body like the hand of a clock to various times and do merkins at those times.  We did, 12, 3, 6, 9, 6, and 3 – all in plank, no break.

Mosey to the warehouse parking lot for Jacob’s Wall Ladder.  Starting at 20 paces back, do one burpee, run to the first retaining wall, climb up, then climb over the second wall and run the path back to the start.  Repeat with 2-7 Burpees (crowd pleaser).

Walk back to the wall of the warehouse for extended people’s chair with arms out, up, etc  (I believe it was Anchorman who shouted, ‘hey, we’re still sitting!’ after the first 60 sec.  Aye – that’s right!)  Take a short walk break to stretch out the legs and repeat  .

Mosey to the grass patch in front of the Chicken Roaster for COP abs:

Freddie Mercs x 25 (fast and slow), Russian Twist x 25, Hello Dolly x 20, Superman/parachute x 2

COT

Moleskin

It was a great morning in the gloom, althrough 55 deg is still a litle too warm for me this early in the year.   We had a great turnout today and you can already tell that the Ballroom will be a popular Tuesday morning spot at 5:15.  It’s always fun to Q, especially with a brand new  AO that still has a lot of virgin territory to explore and enjoy.  Great work by the Pax tackling the Jacob’s Wall Ladder.  My guess is that I’m not the only one who banged up his knees and put some wear on the toes of his shoes today   We’ll be using hose retaining walls again, I’m sure.

Welcome, FNG, Pete Faliskini (Calimari).  Glad to have you with us, brother and we hope to see you back.

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