August 3rd, 2018 By Chicken Strip

8 men avoided the rain and took on Le Tour de Kannon modeled after the Tour de France bike race which YHC likes to follow each year and as Recycle said knows a freakish amount about. I got the idea after Fire Chicken said he couldn’t do his favorite exercise the Freddie Mercury. Having just watched the Tour wrap up at the end of the July the idea was born. Obviously lots of Freddie Mercs were involved but today they were renamed Eddy Merckx in honor of arguably the best Tour de France and Grand Tour cyclist ever. Check him out here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Merckx

Here’s what went down:

Since it called for rain the night before YHC said to meet at the deck. Well the weather for the workout was clear so I audibled and we started from the regular launch. Well most of us. After 6 of us improved ourselves we met the 2 who could follow directions and started the workout.

SSH x 25 IC

Cotton Pickers x 15 IC

Mountain Climbers x 21 IC

Eddy Merckx x 21 IC

In the Tour there are primarily 3 stage types (for a total of 21 hence 21 reps): flat long sprints, hilly stages and two sets of mountain stages in the Alps and Pyrenees. We ran out time to get to the last mountain stage but heres what we did finish:

Flat

Bear crawl level 1

Hilly

7-1 Ladder on ramp: Burpees and WWIIs

Pyrenees (Mountains)

Run to wall stopping at each level to do Eddy Merckx starting with 10 and increasing 10 each landing then back down stairs (ended up with a total of 130 at the top)

Hilly

7-1 Ladder on ramp: Merkins and squats

And just like the Tour we celebrated with an easy ride/Walk down the Champs-Élysées:

Lunge walk level 1

Mary

Mason Twist x 15 IC (don’t let your legs down)

Crunchy Frog x 15 IC

Eddy Merckx x 20 IC

Plank for 1 min

Thanks for putting up with YHC and his Tour obsession. Always fun to lead you guys and see a lot of faces I hadn’t seen in a while: Sun Dollar, Lejune, and all the way from IL: Recycle!

Afton launch is tomorrow! 7 @ Dorton Park!

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