November 22nd, 2020 By Fire Chicken

9 men descended upon the Mill on a mild November morning to see what YHC had planned for the beatdown….

With promises of a Phidip pre-run we fully expected him to be present but he was no where in sight but we did someone coming in a two wheels and it could only be chicken strip or grandmaster…turns out is was the latter and we were off to Switzerland for warm-o-rama…

Warm-up: 30 SSH’s IC, 15 Mtn Climbers IC, 10 15 Hillbillies IC, 10 Slow BSN’s, and some arm cirlces…a quite ridiculous amount of chatter was involved throughout and YHC resorted to yelling cadence from time to time…highlights of warm-up were…Phidip heard us cause YHC was yelling, Burgh was complaining about his hungover headache and sir topham thought hillbillies were now IST’s….oh well, off to the deck.

The Thang: Easy enough…run to level 6 up ramps alternating quadrophelia and normal run on each ramp…at top level complete 10 merkins, 10 freddy merks IC, and 10 squats. Descend down stairwell and up to level 5 in same manner as before and increase reps by 5…rinse and repeat until you reach level 1 which ends up being a total of 35 merkins, 35 freddy merks IC, and 35 squats (total of 135 reps)….good news is we had plenty of time to do it all again except working our way back up…so repeat level 1 meaning back to back reps of 35 each and then up to level 2 complete reps, mosey downstairs and back up to 3….mary called once YHC and Phidip made it back up to level 6 at approx 0655…

Mary: 1ish minute plank as we waited for Burgh and Steel Cannon to finish level 6.

Prayers/Announcements:  money for families in need to go to Chicken Strip and definitely our country.  Hillbilly this Thursday at 0600 at YHC’s house.

Moleskin: great group and didn’t take long for most of us to start shedding our gear as it was mild for November 21st…run was a nice break but man once you got to 30 then 35 reps back to back the run was minimal which added to the pain….all pax got round 1 completed and most made it at least half way back up…completion of 2 rounds meant 270 reps for each exercise.  Best news was due to all the sweating the Burgh and Sir Topham were totally sober within 10 minutes of starting and all of the chatter was abrutly over as well.  So, Phidip did pre-run solo and then after the one hour beatdown proceeded to go run/ruck some more….if possible I want to have his jeans when I grow up but don’t think it’s gonna happen.

Always an Honor,

Fire Chicken

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