October 8th, 2018 By Chum

19 men (including some passport challenge travelers) showed up to get their stamp under the shovel flags at Pile Driver this morning.

T-1minute – YHC delivers a pathetic disclaimer that wouldn’t have amounted to much if it were ever needed today. It’s dark and the ground is uneven. Be careful. In other news, Water is Wet.

WARMUP

• Capri Lap 1 with karaoke right
• Capri Lap 2 with karaoke left
• gang wait for the six
• Dragon Merkin Crawl the entire lane (30 yds)
• Al Gore for the six
• Monkey Humpers x 10 IC

EVERY 8 MINS SOMEONE DIES OF OVERDOSE IN THE US

• Pax line up along the sideline
• 8 walking lunges across the field
• then 8 merkins
• rinse a repeat till all pax have crossed the field to the center lane

TRACK WORK (Individual Effort)

• Hard Hundreds #1
  • run hard from bench to goal (100meters)
  • 10 LBC
  • jog in opposite direction from goal to goal (200meters)
  • 10 LBC
  • run hard from goal to bench (100meters)
  • 10 LBC
  • jog from bench to bench (200meters)
  • continue the run hard 100 / jog for 200 till all pax have completed a full lap
• Hard Hundreds #2
  • repeat the same pattern from the first set but reversing the directions
• Circle up the Pax for SSH IC till the 6 comes in
• Mosey over to the 4-wide Grand National Court for some CAGE WORK

CAGE WORK

• Round 1
  • Bear Crawl from baseline to fault line
  • Crawl Bear back to baseline
  • BC from Baseline to Net
  • CB back to baseline
  • flapjack to the other side of the court and repeat
  • Larry Birds Plank till six is in
• Round 2
  • Repeat round one use lunge walks and tebows in lieu of the bear crawls and crawl bears
  • Larry Birds do dead bug till 6 comes in
• KTE x 20 IC
• Pax run AYG from cage to ShovelFlag

MARY

• Crunchy Frogs x 15 IC
• LBC x 15 IC
• Freddie Mercury x 20 IC

COT

FIELD NOTES

• TCLAPS to Deuce for giving us the MECA Passport Challenge. It is truly great seeing guys making the trips!
• The best moment of the COT happened after the FNG’s got their names Beaver and Wally. These 2 young bucks were scratching their heads at why all these middle-aged men were laughing at wally and beaver references.
• Lots of good mumblechatter in the gloom this morning!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Yes, it’s early but it’s also a great and very relevant cause The Joe Davis Run for Recovery (March 2019). SIGN UP.
• SPEED for NEED is running the Hit the Brixx 10K/5K this weekend in Uptown charlotte. Come support the cause! https://runsignup.com/Race/NC/Charlotte/HitTheBrixx10K5K

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