April 5th, 2018 By Ace Ventura

YHC was honored to lead 7 other men this chilly 37 degree Spring morning that reminded us of the tail end of winter. Given recent birthdays, today’s date (nothing more significant than a 4 followed by a 5 followed by an 18), the April push up challenge, our ex-MQ converting to Britainism….there were quite a few themes to follow. And then a vision, albeit somewhat disturbing, but somewhat comedic, appeared to me. @buckwheat, waking up at ‘0’ dark ’30’, EHing some blokes to mosey down to Buckingham Palace, and starting the first UK F3 workout with Monkey Humpers to hail the Queen. The themes were on, but it had to be something that would challenge our current MQ @softwood. A few disclaimers losing the PAX in confusion, and a couple comments of someone holding my weinke, here we went:

WARM-O-RAMA
SSH X 10
Goofball X 10
Monkey Humpers X 10 (Hail the Queen)
Merkins X 10

– MOSEY TO THE TRAILERS AND GET YOUR CINDER BRICKS
– WHAT? NO BRICKS? FAIL. What do we do now?

Monkey Humpers X 10 (Hail Buckwheat)
Merkins X 10

THE THANG
Using the ends of the bus parking lot as station 1 and station 2, ladder it up 1:10 as follows:
S1-4x4s (standing position, down and do 4 merkins followed by 4 mountain climbers, stand back up. That’s ‘1’.)
Run to the midway point (first bus), drop for 1 merkin and 1 monkey humper, thinking of Buckwheat and the Queen.
S2-Febreze variation (10 big boy setups followed by feet at 6 inches and 10 air presses. More effective with bricks if we had them.)
Run to the midway point for 1 merkin and 1 monkey jumper, back to station 1 to continue the ladder finishing with 10 4x4s and 1 Febreze variation.

Before departing said Thang, finale was 2 Monkey Humpers (Hail the Queen) and 2 Merkins.

MARY
Monkey Humpers X 10
Merkins X 10
Captain Morgan X 10 left side
Merkins X 10
Captain Morgan X 10 right side
time ran out but the finale would have been 9 single count merkins

MOLESKIN
– The workout was supposed to incorporate cinder bricks. Evidently the skunk we scared a couple weeks ago got back at us and took them. If anyone has seen a skunk with cinder bricks, please contact @softwood.
– If one were to complete the entire proposed set, one would have completed their quota for the merkin challenge of 333 merkins for the day.
– If one were to count the number of merkins at the first bus running to and fro, one would count the number of years @forgottenjelly has been around.
– Next Thursday it’s lights, camera, action as @softwood will be ruthlessly using our workout for fame and glory in hollywood, or just a 5 second motivational clip.
– Prayers out to our soldiers, to our PAX running competitions, to those traveling for vacation, and those celebrating more birthdays adding another year on the right side of the ground.

Comanche, Monkey Humpers

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