July 25th, 2016 By Chum

6 pax started but 8 pax finished a sneak-up-on-you gloom time melt fest in the park at Piledriver this morning.

AN UNUSUAL WARMUP

• Gather round the playground, outside looking in.
• Wall Merkins x 5 IC
• hand-over-hand walk down the wall x5
• Wall Merkins x 10 IC
• Bear crawl on top of the wall
• hands on the wall, feet in the playground
• Merkins x 7 IC
• hand-over-hand walk along the wall x5
• Merkins x 5 IC
• Mosey to the Wall Ball Court
• People’s Chair + Air Presses x 25 IC
• Walk it off
• PC + RC x 20 IC
• walk it off
• Right Leg PC + AP x 15 IC
• walk it off
• Left Leg PC + RC x 15 IC
• Mosey to the soccer fields

CHUTES & LUNGES

• Partner Up
• Race your partner down the chute (approx 100m)
• P1 Lunges the out width of field 1, P2 lunges teh width of field 2 (approx 60m)
• each partner runs/jogs back down the length of the field (approx 100m)
• each partner lunges back in the width of each field back to starting line (apprx 60m)
• faster partner waits for slower partner at the starting line
• repeat this set x4 for a total mile (we only got 3 laps in today)
• mosey to the 4-wide tennis courts

FAST FINISH

• break down into 2 teams of 4
• 1 pax at the near side line of each tennis court (4 courts)
• 1st pax sprints to the fence & back to tag the pax behind him.
• 2nd pax sprints to the fence & back to tag the pax behind him.
• this repeats for the 3rd and 4th pax
• last team standing has a single team burpee penalty
• hurl if you gotta
• mosey back to the cars for short Mary

MARY

• on all fours for a cat/cow stretch
• diamond stretch
• down dog
• rag doll
• stand up & Amen!

COT

NMM

YHC knew when he woke up ahead of his 0430 alarm that it was gonna be a real sweatfest when his phone read 80 degrees outside. WOW!

At first the pax trickled in and he wasn’t sure if the numbers were gonna work well against the Rx. So at 0530 he gave his disclaimer, handed out waters for the trip and took the 6 pax to the playground for that most unusual warmup. The only reason no one was scratching their head for the wall merkins was because their hands were on the wall. By the time we made it to the Wall Ball court for PC, another pax found us, yep CAPRI. Now the pax is 7 and YHC is thinking about the odd man scenario for the next part. HC mad a convenient oddman since he is still nursing his calf, new kicks and all. But then Poncho finds us in the middle of Chutes and Lunges and makes our oddman a pair for the FAST FINISH that was to follow.

By the end of it all YHC and the pax were fighting back fresh urges to spill Merlots in the weeds around the courts.

Thankfully everyone who finally posted finished in tact and satisfied. No refunds were needed.

Again, thanks for the opportunity and honor of leading. YHC has learned so much in this spot and strongly encourages all who may be reading this post to step up and Q if you haven’t already.

AYE!

Piledriver

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