Sixteen HIMs showed up at Danger Zone to help YHC celebrate his 55th trip around the sun. A glorious morning, with the temp at 47° according to the Disco Duck-mobile. EC runners come rolling in and after some light mumble chatter it’s time to get started.
Warm Up
- Windmills x 11 IC
- SSH x 11 IC
- Sir Fazio/Fazio Sir x 11 each IC
- Hillbillies x 11 IC
- Standard Merkins x 11 OMD (shout out to Saban for the reminder of “starting position, move”
Thang 1: P-I-C-K-L-E-S
At each end of the pickle, do the following, repeating the previous exercises each time:
- 5 Plank Jacks
- 10 Imperial Walkers
- 15 Carolina Dry Docks
- 20 Flutter Kicks
- 25 LBC’s
- 30 E2K (Elbows to knees)
- 35 Star Jumps
Thang 2: Ring of Fire
Celebrating the Man in Black’s birthday as well, it’s time for a little Ring of Fire. Six stations arranged around the parking lot, with a different exercise at each one. AMRAP within a minute. We did two rounds.
- Merkins
- Burpees
- Jump Squats
- Shoulder Taps
- Freddy Mercury’s
- WWII’s
Mary
Various Mary exercises called by different PAX culminating with YHC calling celebratory Pickle Pounders, with a nice slow finish.
COT
Count: 16 – 5 respects, 2 hates, 9 meh
Announcements: soft launch of new Saturday AO, Piranha Park on 2/27 at Apex Community Park. 0645-0745, because Vicious Fishes opens for coffee at 8. Hard launch on 3/6.
Prayer requests: praises for Happy Gilmore’s friend Buck who came off the ventilator and is recovering from COVID at home, prayers for Disco Duck’s grandmother who took a fall recently, prayers for PAX looking for employment, praises and prayers for YHC’s neice Christy, who is expecting her first child in September.
NMS
- Grateful for another trip around the sun on God’s beautiful creation.
- Good fortune on the weather this morning — 47 in February? Yes please!
- Happy to have Leprechaun and his buddy Bag Boy come out and celebrate with us.
- Thanks Burt, for the Natty Light, Fireball and pickles! (Although, I think those were technically gherkins. Need to research my pickle taxonomy. LOL)
- Thanks to Coney for the coffeeteria.
- Can’t think of a better way to start another lap than leading you HIMs.