February 17th, 2018 By Exit54

Seven of MECA’s bravest and toughest set out to explore new territory at the Mineshaft…

WARM-UP

• Disclaimer
• Mosey to the street corner by the Track complex, COP
• SSH x 20 (IC)
• IST x 20 (IC)
• Windmills x 15 (IC)
• Mountain climbers x 20 (IC)
• Merkens x 15 (IC)
• Bear Crawl down to the hedge, then reverse Bear Crawl back to the start

THE THANG, Part I

Mosey down Cameron, left on Phillips

• Left onto Wells Fargo Lane, line up at the base of the hill
• One at a time, sprint to the top, then circle back down to where you started and repeat.  Every man does three sprints
• Continue back on Phillips, left onto the fitness trail
• Stop at the trail fork for 2 minutes of planking
• Mosey to the picnic tables, 20 step ups w each foot, then 25 bench dips
• Mosey up the steps to see what’s waiting on the other side

SNEAKY PETE

The PAX ascended the stair case to find a rather benign-looking two-story parking deck awaiting them.  This was sure to be nothing compared to the North Deck.

• Enter the front entrance mosey down and down and down until you’re at the bottom level
• 10 burpees OYO
• Run up the east stairwell to the top level
• 20 hand-release merkens IC
• Run across top level, descend the tower stairwell to bottom level
• 10 Jump squats IC
• Starting at the bottom ramp, Indian Run where the sprinter does 5 burpees then sprints to the front.  The train, meanwhile, does backpedal on the ramps and regular mosey on the flat levels.  Continue until you reach the top
• Time’s up, head back to Mary

MARY

• Crunchy Frogs x 20 IC (Jumanji w the count)
• LBCs x 25 IC
• The Squirm x 20 IC

MOLESKINE

We started off with six PAX, but were joined by Jackpot somewhere on the fitness trail. Don’t ask me how he found us.  Anyways that brought us to seven men today – one for each level of Sneaky Pete.

Oh how I haven’t missed Pete.  It’s probably been three years since I’ve run that thing and it’s only gotten harder and dumber with age.  I know it’s no Stairway to Heaven but I’ll put Sneaky Pete up against any deck this side of Muthaship for pain station options and overall suck.

Anyways it was a pleasure to show you guys the ropes today, same as Chowder and Col Mustard did for me back in the El Dorado days.  Thanks for the opportunity to lead – MECA has something special in this AO.  If you haven’t seen it in person yet, I can’t recommend it strongly enough.

/Exit 54

The Mineshaft

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