Half-Century Mountain

Upon checking the weather last night, I posed the ‘more PAX than degrees Fahrenheit challenge’ to the Twittersphere. This ended up being way closer a proposition than we thought it’d be! 25 > 22.

With our strong crew of 8, take a lap around the parking lot, and venture into the park. Pause for a warmup consisting of
10 x GM (here comes Pivot)
1 penalty burpee
10 X IW
10 X WM (here comes Hermes)
10 X HB
FOLLOW ME

The Thang
On a serpentine course through the park, we’ll stop do one exercise, then stop again to do that + another exercise, continuing the pattern until we have stopped 10 times total on our way to the top of Half-Century Mountain.

the exercises:
5 Burpees
10 Merkins
15 Star Jumps
20 LBC
25 Squats (of your choice)
30 CDDs
35 Hallelujahs
40 SSH
45 Overhead Claps
50 Mountain Climbers

Mosey back to the flag. 20 Freddy Mercs, Have a Nice Day, and THAT’S IT.

COR – 23 (2 early departures… to match our 2 late arrivals)
NOR – 8 RESPECTS, 1 HATE, 16 meh

Announcements
Refinery every Wednesday at 6:45. Currently studying David and his Leadership qualities.
KKC + pre-murph at 6:30 + post-dog gorge to follow this Saturday.
09Feb19 – American Tobacco Trail runs. 8/14/22 mile options.

Prayer Requests
Encouragement for Angry Elf
Crimson’s friend Dave lost his wife and is reconnecting with his kids

NMS

Pulled the main idea for this morning’s Thang from a workout Squatter led at FWD last year. Knew that I wanted to ‘climb a mountain’ with the low temps, and his routine fit the bill.

As I walked the course down ahead of the workout, I realized that yes, I had been inspired by Squatter, but Banjo’s recent Phoenix course and routine was eerily similar – simply with less choice for the PAX this time. I potentially had enough time to change it up… but stuck to the plan any ways. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Way to watch out for each other and avoid injury out there, brothers. It was pretty treacherous out there.

Special note: if you hit a rainy Rush Hour the night before a cold morning workout, dry out your dang gloves. I was making fists in the main part of the gloves by the end of the morning, and the fingers were legit frozen solid. But I digress, the Midwest had it ROUGH this morning. TAP in that direction.

Thanks everyone!