December 30th, 2017 By Disaster

Fifteen men showed up to Mallard Creek Community Park today to take on yet another disastrous beatdown. YHC hasn’t been the Saturday ‘Q’ since September so it was time to give @Murdock the day off and take the lead for a change. Today’s theme was “know your AO” which involved the ambitious challenge of covering all four corners of the rather extensive footprint of our AO. After a quick disclaimer the PAX was off to the upper corner of the parking lot for:

WARMARAMA

• Since today was December 30 all exercises will involve either the number 12 or the number 30 (clever huh?). @Ambassador suggested postponing this idea until January 2. Too late sir.
• SSH IC X 12
• IST IC X 12
• CP IC X 12
• MC IC X 12
• Merkins IC X 12

THE THANG

• Mosey over to the tennis courts
• 12 burpees
• Watch the Q trip over the median and nearly break his wrist
• Mosey over to the high school to say hello to the wrestling team. Yield to the school bus please.
• Partner up. Partner one does 30 step ups on the benches while partner two does Muhammad Ali’s on the curb (with real GI Joe punching action just for @ONJ). Rotate.
• Mosey back to the tennis courts. Watch out for the bus.
• 12 more burpees while we still have the energy.
• Mosey over to the parking lot beside the snack shacks
• Lunge walk to the first island and then backwards run down to the small hill at the end of the parking lot.
• 6 to 1 ladder on the small hill with CDD at the top and WW2 sit ups at the bottom. Bear crawl the first three, Quadraphilia the last three.
• Mosey around the corner to the road going up the hill.
• 30 LBC then run up the hill to the crosswalk for 30 merkins. Run back down the hill and repeato, finishing at the crosswalk.
• Mosey over to the shelters
• Grab some wall, 12 dips, 12 inclined merkins, 12 declined merkins. Run one full lap around the shelter and repeato.
• Mosey down the hill to the big parking lot.
• Four corners around the parking lot with 30 squats in corner one, 30 reverse crunch in corner two, 30 merkins in corner three, and 30 lunges in corner four.
• Lunge walk with Google bun shapers over to the rock pile.
• Grab a rock. 12 curls, 12 overhead press, 12 skull crushers, 12 dead lifts, all in cadence, rotating one rock to the left each time. Repeato rotating one rock to the right each time. Audible to 6 lifts each since we are doing them in cadence anyway.
• Mosey up the elementary school for another set of four corners around the school.
• 12 merkins (audible) in corner one, 30 squats in corner two, 30 LBC in corner three, 30 lunges in corner four, and 30 CDD back at corner one.
• PAX starting to grumble about all the merkins. Let’s wrap this up.
• Mosey back up the road towards the main parking lot. Stop at the split rail fence for 12 monkey humpers and 12 dips on the fence while we wait for the six.
• Mosey back down across the soccer fields to the parking lot for Mary.

MARY

• The ‘W’ IC X 12 (Snip)
• Pretzel Crunch IC X 12. Flapjack.
• Low Flutter IC X 30

COT and BOM

MOLESKIN

1. Thanks to everyone who posted today. I was expecting colder weather but it turned out to be pretty nice with temperatures in the mid 30’s.
2. Welcome back to @Sandman and @Snip who have both been out of action for most of December. Sorry about all the running.
3. @Pavarotti reports that we covered three miles today according to his watch. This AO has a pretty big footprint apparently. Plenty of options for future Q’s (hint hint)
4. Good showing at coffeteria this morning with ten of the PAX (plus @Chopper) enjoying the second F. Thanks to @Ambassador for sharing some pretty wild tales from his fraternity from back in the early 80’s. In other news @Dodger is never letting his fifteen year old daughter out of the house again!
5. Reminder that next Saturday (January 6) is the convergence at our newest AO, #Mineshaft. Check the weekly email or Slack for more details. Parking will be on the UNC Charlotte campus rather than in the Kohl’s parking lot. There will NOT be a scheduled beatdown at MCCP next week.
6. We will also be holding a special holiday Murph on Monday January 1 at Highland Creek Sports Club. We missed last week because of Christmas. Special 7AM start should give you plenty of time to sleep off your hangover.
7. Happy New Year to all of the MECA PAX. It is an honor to lead and serve with you men every week. Please use the New Year as an opportunity to EH someone that you know would benefit from F3.

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