Date / Location May 28 2022
AO: Pit
Q: Shingles /Legolas
PAX: Ditty, Icy Hot, Gipper, Lo Flo, Stranglehold, Chernobyl, Golden Pike
No pre-runners
Announced: Legolas not present due to illness. The Mission Statement, Disclaimer, Five Core Principles, and Creddo.
Moseyed to parking lot by big slide for some Warm a Rama
Warmarama
15 Tappy Taps in cadence
15 Big Ones in cadence
15 Cherry Pickers in cadence
15 Sun Gods in cadence (forward and reverse)
Moseyed to west practice field
Pre-Thang
Shoot it’s a Ladder:
Starting at the goal line (roughly) we did 10 merkins
Super Mario to 1st cone where we did 20 LBCs. Sprint back to goal line. Lunge walk to 2nd cone and do 20 Imperial Walkers IC. Sprint back to goal line. Butt kickers to 3rd cone for 20 squat jumps. Sprint back to goal line. Bernie to final cone and do 20 Bonnie Blairs. Sprint back to goal line.
Pax took turns leading counts for exercises. 10 count recover and then run the ladder again.
Mosey East to field area between the two baseball fields.
The Thang
Around the world:
Pairing off, one pax would start doing AMRAP exercises at center location. Other pax would go to one of five cones and do exercise and rep listed.
And then switch. Pax could start at whichever cone they wanted, but all five cones had to be visited. Honor system was in play.
Station 1: Bulgarian split squats – 15 each leg Station 2: Mahktar N’Diayes – 25 IC
Station 3: Moroccan Nightclub – 20 IC
Station 4: Mountain Climbers – 20 IC
Station 5: 7 Burpees
AMRAP exercises were the same from the ladder.
Rinse and repeat. Everyone completed close to 2 trips around or more.
Omaha was called approx 6:50 to mosey back to shovel flags. YHC did not set out to go 2 miles in the beat down, but we surpassed that amount. Many were not pleased.
6MOM
Upon reaching the shovel flags, we did a round of American Hammers, Chernobyl count style. Plenty of mumble chatter was heard about burpees. General consensus was one of displeasure towards that particular exercise.
COT
My M and I have been having a lot of discussions recently in regard to not allowing ourselves to stay in that place of defeat. When we screw up, whether it be on our meal plan or exercise goals, not allowing ourselves or each other to dwell in the hopelessness of things never changing. Instead, pushing ourselves to recognize what happened, learn from the experience and figure out what we can do differently the next time. Stay in today, and figure out what we need to do to be successful tomorrow.
We are going to drop the ball from time to time. It’s inevitable. The question is then what are you going to do to prevent it from happening again.
Closed out with my favorite quote from Rocky Balboa:
“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!”
Prayers for Chernobyl’s M and Omaha area homeschool mom diagnosed with lymphoma. Announcements: One year at Pit for Chernobyl and Sweet Roll next weekend & Pop ups galore!
Just post. Aye!
Shingles