The FLU

The FLU

QIC: Van Gogh

Date: 02/12/2018

PAX: Hedwig (WB), Sleeper, Van Gogh, Zima, TPS, Toe Tag (WD)

Date: 02/12/2018

PAX: Hedwig (WB), Sleeper, Van Gogh, Zima, TPS, Toe Tag (WD)

The Flu has been weighing heavily on YHC’s mind ever since Thursday when my 6 year old 2.1 tested positive for Type A influenza. My M came down with it on Saturday, and my 14 month old 2.3 tested positive for it on Sunday. So it’s been a long, not too fun weekend. And what a better way to forward my frustration on how the FLU spreads and repeats itself everywhere, then a painful repeating beatdown!

Warm-o-rama

• SSH x 15 IC
• Abe Vigoda x 8 IC
• SSH x 15 IC
• Abe Vigoda x 8 IC

The Thang

• The FLU
  • Four (Sides of the Tennis Courts):
    • Broadjump Burpee Short sides
    • Bear Crawl long sides
  • Lap
    • Around the Track
  • Urchin
    • At the shelter
    • Inclined Merkin Plank Walk  around the U-Shaped picnic table area (aka the Urchin)
  • Repeato three times!
    • At any time necessary, Freddy Mercs till the 6 is up
• The Vaccine
  • Bearcrawl the long sides of the tennis court area (across the three court short sides)
  • Broad jump burpee the short sides of the tennis court area (across the long side of one court)

Merry Mary

• Merkins x 10 IC
• LBC x 20 IC
• Merkins x 9 IC
• LBC x 18 IC
• Merkins x 8 IC
• LBC x 16 IC
• Merkins x 7 IC
• LBC x 14 IC
• Merkins x 6 IC
• LBC x 12 IC
• Merkins x 5 IC
• LBC x 10 IC
• Merkins x 5 (4+1) IC
• LBC x 10 IC
• Merkins x 5 (3+2) IC
• LBC x 10 IC

Fin!

CoT

• Prayer request fit YHC’s family who is currently battling the flu, and that those sick get better, and those not don’t catch it.
• YHC took us (from the outer fringe of the circle), giving thanks for the rain, asking that this be a start to a great week, lifting up those struggling with addiction, our men and women in the military, and our nation’s leaders.

NMM

• The PAX clearly didn’t recall my tweet yesterday, as there was some confusion when we repeated our warm up exercises.
• Kudos to @ToeTag and @Hedwig who ran an EC 5k pre-Beatdown, and also to @Zima did some sort of EC beforehand
• Great to see @Sleeper again who continues his hot streak upon returning 3 weeks ago.
• @TPS has been going strong ever since his first a few months ago, looking strong brother!
• The PAX put in strong work this morning, it was very chest and shoulder heavy. From the 1.75 miles we travelled, we got in ~100 inclined merkins total, ~50 broad jump burpees, and ~250 yards of bear crawls; and then we finished it off with 110 merkins and 200 LBCs (ran out of time for the last 20 set) during Merry Mary.
• @Zima gave a suggestion of using “I-N-F-L-U-E-N-Z-A” for an acronym to get some variety after the second round… but YHC wasn’t feeling too creative after caring for the sick family all weekend.
• @Hedwig unleashed some ridiculously fast, super bear crawl upon this morning. He was literally flying around twice as fast as YHC’s fastest attempt. He could give the infamous @Proehl bear crawl a run for its money. He said his secret was “T-Rex Arms”?
• @TPS found it more interesting to follow me during the Urchin… I didn’t like it because the dude was moving so fast, I felt like I was slowing him down!
• @ToeTag is quite the jokester, always saying “Thanks for lying!” when words of encouragement are given… his “I used to not be able to run a quarter mile” story was brought up by the PAX this morning sometime after word was mentioned of an upcoming Ultra later this year (I think).
• A subset of us ran an extra lap after CoT to get to an even 2 miles on the morning, at the beginning of which @Sleeper commented something along the lines of “Ya’ll are going to kill me.” I’ve heard that before!
• Thanks for the keys @RedEye, sorry you couldn’t make it this morning!