June 16th, 2020 By escalade

10 men made it out to the Ridge this morning despite the gloomy rain.   Some were hoping to go straight to coffee,  others were thinking the safety of the portico would protect us from the precipitation.  However, YHC had different plans that did not include those things.   Mother nature just added the extra element of suckyness.

• Waiting in the rain.  “Let’s just start early”
• “Ok, 10 Burpees.”
• “Let’s wait to start.”
• “Ok.” (30 seconds later)  “10 Burpees.”

Flip Phone may have missed the burpees but he brought the Flag.   Wait for it….. (shovel Flag planted) Time to roll.

Warm Up: 

Mosey through the lot with a side weaver and a front and backward weaver.

Circle up in the lot near the school for “The Motivator.” – 4 variations of SSH starting with a countdown from 10 – 1 and repeating until a count of 1 on each variation is reached.   The mathematicians at coffeteria calculated this to be 220 SSH’s.  Thanks Talledaga.

A Medley of Merkins.

• 5 Diamond
• 5 Military
• 5 Wide
• 5 Carolina Dry Dock

The Beatdown: 

Suicide Elimination

• Suicides between parking lot lines. Starting with 1 length and adding 1 additional length each minute.  This one starts super slow, but it get’s ‘real’ by the 8th minute.  Most of the PAX made it to 11 back and forth sprints in under a minute.  It looked like Exit 54 was the only one to complete the 11th in under a minute.   This was the slippery part of the workout.  Some may have slid but nobody went down.

The Wall:

Mosey to the wall for a People’s Chair Ladder.  1 person runs to fence post and back to the wall while the rest of the group practiced Air Presses and other activities.   Keeping in the people chair position until all 10 completed a fun run in the rain and mud.   This is about the time it really started to pour.

• Balls to the Wall – overheard “I hate it when the sweat from my butt gets in my eyes.”
• 15 Donkey Kicks in cadence.

Despite the pouring rain and keen observations that the portico was “just over there,”  we headed to the hill for a 1 Burpee/10 Squat ladder on the hill.  Rinse and repeat until 10 Burpee’s and 1 Squat.

Mary: 

• 15 Mason Twist
• 10 Pretzel Crunches each side.  in today’s weather it became waterboarding.  Hearing the back “splats” in the puddles was too much hilarity for YHC to count correctly.  (Actually still laughing.) Great way to finish up the day before sitting in your car.

COT:  

1. It’s always nice to have good weather.  Yet, sometimes the nasty, gloomy, crappy days are the best.   Really thankful for this group of men and knowing that no matter what kind of stuff Mother Nature throws at us, someone will be there ready to go.
2. Great day for mumble chatter.
3. As usual Coffeteria was great and well deserved.

Thanks for posting today.   Have a Blessed Day!

YHC

• Escalade

Harrisburg, The Ridge

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