A tad bit soggy and cool at the Dawg Pound
QIC: Van Pelt
Date: 11/24/2018
PAX: Finger, Drama Queen, Zima, Cherry Pie, Van Pelt (Q)
PAX: Fingers, Drama Queen, Zima, Cherry Pie, Van Pelt (Q).
Preamble: Fingers invited me to Q Dawg Pound back when it was hot and dry. It had been some time since YHC had visited Dawg Pound, as evidenced later in the backblast. The forecast I viewed last night did not look very promising. Oh, well…a commitment is a commitment.
As YHC drove to Tanglewood, the dash board temp read 30 degrees and the windshield wipers could hardly keep up with the rain. Swell. This ought to be a lot of fun. While there is some shelter at Tanglewood, it is not plentiful and running any distance in the dry becomes a challenge.
YHC sat in the car dreading the wet and gloom and then messaged our Site Q that he should feel no obligation to attend. A good day for a fartsack with no complaints or mumblechatter from anyone. Lo! Headlights. Dang it, I guess they are coming. Then, the truck passed and went to the RV area. Woo hoo! 3 minutes more to wait. Then, here come more headlights; they actually pull into the lot. Then another. Then another. OK…let’s do this.
YHC climbed into the rain and the cold to spot Fingers, DQ, and Zima. Consider yourself disclaimed. Off we went when, WAIT! Here comes another car. Double back, pick up Cherry Pie (now Zima has a friend to play with) and off we went again.
The Thang: YHC missed the turn to the shelter, which several PAX quickly pointed out. ‘Hey, there is shelter this way! Blah, blah, blah.’ Like I said, it’s been a while. Keep on trucking, eventually finding shelter at the shelter (duh). Fingers states we have no lights, but voila…we find the secret switch. Now, we can see each other, which I guess is a good thing.
Warm Up with IW’s, Abe Vigodas, Sun God forward, Sun God backward, low slow squats, and merkins.
Rounds of 20: 20 dips, 20 derkins, 20 jump-ups or step ups. Then, get in your running by lapping the parking lot. Repeat for a total of 3 rounds. Hey, we are staying 50% drier.
Plank Line: Line up in plank shoulder-to-shoulder. PAX 1 makes his way down line with 2 hand slap merkins for each of the other PAX. Continue until all have made it down the line. Crowd pleaser. 50 LBC’s and a lap around the lot.
Repeato with hand slap merkins every other PAX. 50 low dolly and a lap. At this point, CP peels off for a nature break. We all rested.
Thus, round 3 featured hand slap with every PAX again. Followed by 25 double-count flutter and a lap.
Next, we had a virtual run to the tennis courts. Oh, we never left the dry of our shelter. Instead, we ran in place at a very fast pace, carrying us to the “tennis courts” in record time.
4 corners. 20 molitov merkins….run to next corner (i.e. a lap around lot). 20 running with scissors + lap. 20 groiners + lap. 20 burpees + lap. That was so much fun, we should do it again. We did cut reps down to 5 because we could.
Last bit of fun was a ladder (10 down to 1). 10 low plank jacks + run. Then 9, 8, 7, etc.
A fellowship-paced jog back to the launch. We tried to look strong, dry, warm, and un-winded when we came into the lot in order to impress the other running group gathering up. They were not fooled.
YHC misjudged time and we went into OT. However, we all wanted to finish the low plank jack ladder, so PAX didn’t jabber too much.
Moleskine: Weather was not ideal, but the fellowship was unparalleled. That said, mubblechatter was reasonably low as we all had work to do. If you’re out in 30 degree rain, you may as well work hard.
Zima just finished a super beast ultra gargantium Spartan race. I think it was like 87 miles with 239 obstacles including snake charming, rhinoceros jousting, and lion taming. He claims he was still a little sore. Yea, yea.
CP always puts in hard work and keeps Zima challenged on the runs and the reps. He made up for tardiness with a quick run to the shelter.
Fingers puts in the reps and is not to be deterred by the young ‘uns. He peeled off layers like a professional “dancer” only to have to suit back up for the jog back.
DQ took a break from his side business of directing church dramas to join the crowd. He claimed he would have fartsacked if he had not had 4 previous days of fartsacking. Breaking the cycle—nice job.
Announcement: DQ’s aforementioned drama will run this coming Saturday (Dec 1) at 6:00 p.m. and again on Sunday (Dec 2) at 9:00 a.m. Mt. Tabor Methodist.
YHC took us out. Boom!
