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QIC: Burlap

Date: 06 Nov 2018

PAX: Redeye (WB), Mongoose, Bolero (Kotters), The Singing Cowboy, Burlap (QIC), Boomerang, Drama Queen, and LiteBrite (WD)

PAX:  Redeye (WB), Mongoose, Bolero (Kotters), The Singing Cowboy, Burlap (QIC), Boomerang, Drama Queen, and LiteBrite (WD)

No disclaimer, no circle of pain, no warm-up, just a single file line facing down the wet, rainy parking lot.  All Pax are either performing exercises or transporting from back to front (Indian Run style) at all times — no breaks.  We meandered around the parking lot to the covered walkway and back into the parking lot.  Moved 1/2 mile max.  Here is what we did:

SSHs — Run forward x2 

IST — Lunge walk

Plankjacks — run backwards 

Monkey Humpers – walk

Merkins   — Run w hands behind back. 

Hillbillies – plank walk right

Mtn climbers  — Carioca right 

Freddie mercury —  Carioca left

Plank straight   — Crab walk

CDD —  Bunny hop

Elbow plank   — Plank walk left 

Squats  — Crawl bears 

Jack reachers — Alligator crawl

Peter Parker — Duck walk

OH claps — Inchworm

Jump squats —   Apollo creed right

Parker Peter   — Apollo creed left

Low flutter   —   Side squat right

Abe vigodas   — Side squat left

Nolan Ryan’s right   —   Frog jump 

Nolan Ryan’s left   — Run w hands on head

SSHs — Run forward 

IST — Lunge walk

Plankjacks — run backwards 

Monkey Humpers – walk

Merkins   — Run w hands behind back. 

Hillbillies – plank walk right

Mtn climbers  — Carioca right 

Freddie mercury —  Carioca left

Plank straight   — Crab walk

CDD —  Bunny hop

Elbow plank   — Plank walk left 

Squats  — Crawl bears 

At this point, it was 0613 so we slow moseyed 100 feet, got in a circle and did Whirly with Clap in cadence.  FIN

COT

• Prayers for two sets of @LiteBrite’s neighbors with recent deaths.
• Prayers for this national election.
• Prayers and thanksgiving for @Bolero’s son who just started bootcamp in the Marines and for @Bolero committing to working out in the gloom to support his son.
• Prayers and thanksgiving for Boomerang’s recent nuptials.
• YHC took us out.

NMM

• Pax were at something of a loss when we didn’t circle up for warm-o-rama, BUT quickly caught on to the follow-the-leader, Indian ‘run’ style of the workout.
• Pax were not totally supportive of combining crab walk, plank, and CDDs in one portion of the workout.
• The first time we went to our backs on the wet asphalt for Freddie Mercuries, it was a nice cold shock.  This was one of the catalysts that led the pax to curve the line around and head for the covered walkway.
• @LiteBrite passed @Boomerang only once, during the U-turn at school doors.
• @Boomerang and YHC started grumbling about the distance between the line of pax.  Young people like @Mongoose and @Redeye were keeping their distance from other bodies, making the line of transportation pretty long and painful, especially under the covered walkway.  We tightened it up when we got around to the Crab Walk the second time.
• @Bolero arrived just as we started, and @LiteBrite was a couple of minutes late.  @Bolero’s son just joined the Marines, so in a show of solidarity with his son, @Bolero is working out painfully early in the gloom with the Pax.  @LiteBrite had a hole in his shorts, which made us thankful we wore tights underneath.  Inappropriate comments may have been made.
• YHC made the mistake of calling @LiteBrite “Dan” a couple of times, but the name didn’t really stick, even after LB used it in the circle of trust.
• @The Singing Cowboy arrived early and was in his usually good mood, lightening the atmosphere — which was needed due to the complaining about working out in a light rain.
• @Drama Queen was working hard and smiling as usual.  YHC thinks all the crawling and various forms of transportation were down his alley.
• However, no one enjoyed the Inchworm.
• Speaking of crawling, YHC accidentally discovered another commonality between @Drama Queen and @Mongoose:  they are both fans of an old school country song, “The Watermelon Crawl”.  Who knew?
• This workout was nearly identical to the one YHC Qed in early September 2017 at Flatline before the BRR.  We didn’t want to run but wanted to get a good, active, burning workout in, so this format of constant exercise and slow but difficult transportation worked well.  It got good reviews from @Spicoli and @Whirly in 2017, so YHC brought it to #Parliament.  Hope you all enjoyed!

Peace,

Burlap