When Cesspool reminded YHC and Fannie that we had the #Battle Q the news was greeted unkindly. Between a few random injuries, illnesses and a dash of #fartsacking, leading the men of #Battle just wasn’t a good option. Thankfully, Fannie and I have been around a while and know how to give the buys a whoopin’ even when we’re fairly unprepared… or rather, with plenty of preparedness, anyone can lay down a solid workout. It just takes a little creativity. So, here’s what we did:
Conditions: Cold… like in the 30’s which was strange.
TheThang:
Fannie opened things up with:
- 25 SSHs, 4CT IC
- 25 Squats, 4CT IC
- 25 American Hammers, 4CT IC
- 12 Mercans, 4CT IC
- 25 Tuck Jumps, OYO
Then we relocated from the confines of the parking lot, quickly filling with Saturday morning ballerinas, making our way to the #CircleOfDeath. From thence, Fannie explained the stack of cards, each having an exercise. This will be pertinent later… peek at three, at random, and execute the three exercises found on the underside. To lead off Fannie pulled, which we all did together, the following:
- 20 Iron Cross, OYO
- 25 Mercans, OYO
- 20 Squats, OYO
From there, the real meat was explained. In the wee hours of the morning, Fannie and YHC had placed 37 (that’s a lot) signs along a 2.75 mile route each with an exercise and directions to the next sign. In good old OCR fashion, the entire deal was to be executed AFAP by each, lone #Battle contender. Here’s what the course entailed:
From the #Battle #CircleOfDeath, head around the back of AC Flora along the back road where the first sign was found on the asphalt:
- Bear crawl to the next speed bump (50 Yds) and run to the parking lot
- Turn right and do 1 Burpee in each parking space (15-ish) and stop at the next sign.
- Turn left and head toward Brentwood Ave.
- 50 Mercans at the telephone pole and then proceed to Brentwood.
- 50 MORE Mercans (#CrowdPleaser) and turn left headed up toward Forest Drive
- Stop at the back drive to MUV and do 50 LBCs before proceeding up to Forest Drive
- Right on Forest and proceed to Greenhill Road
- 10 Squat Jumps and proceed down Forest Drive
- 10 More Squat Jumps and keep going down Forest Drive
- 10 MORE Squat Jumps at the Murphy & Grantland parking lot entry and then run around back of the building to Clemson Ave.
- 50 LBCs and turn right on Clemson heading toward Crayton
- 50 Mercans at the back Crayton drive and then keep going toward the faculty loop
- Bear Crawl to the drop off canopy (50 Yds)
- 25 Monkey Humpers and then run to the flag pole
- 25 Raise the Roof and cross Clemson to St. Martins In The Fields
- Crab Walk down the shallow steps to the gym entry and then run back
- Run left down Clemson around the side of St. Martins
- Broad Jump the Parking Spaces (10-ish) and proceed to the drop off canopy
- 50 LBCs under the canopy and proceed toward Wintrhop
- Left on Winthrop back up toward Forest Drive
- 25 Squats, turn right onto Clemson and head to Forest
- Carefully cross Forest Drive
- 25 More Squats at the Lauriate entry and then run left uphill on Forest Drive
- Right onto Rutland Court
- 5 Burpees at the top of the hill & run down
- 5 Burpees at the bottom of the hill & run up
- 5 Burpees at the top of the hill & run down
- 5 Burpees at the bottom of the hill & run back up
- Quit the hill and head back to Forest Drive
- Right on Forest Drive to Atascadero
- 50 LBCs at Atascadero & continue across on Forest Drive
- Carefully cross Forest Drive and head right up toward MUV fitness
- 25 Monkey Humper salute to the gym’s wall of windows, proceed to the bank ATM canopy
- 50 Mercans and proceed downhill toward Falcon Drive
- Left onto Falcon Drive
- Hop the fence around the Battle Loop (or run back up and around) and proceed down and around the Loop to the pull up bars
- 25 Pull Ups. #SpillMerlot and then proceed back to the #CircleOfDeath
At this point, Splinter was well ahead of the rest of us… Cess behind him with Hawg and BillyBob graciously keeping Fannie and YHC company at the rear. I’m pretty sure BillyBob thought he was going to have to carry my body back from Rutland.
Instead of the random-o-rama card flipping thing Fannie had worked so hard on, we agreed to just flip all the cards and do them all. With about ten minutes left, this seemed reasonable so we, together did:
- 30 SSHs, OYO
- 15 Burpees, OYO
- 25 Plank Jacks, OYO
- 15 Iron Cross, OYO
- 15 Squats, OYO
- 25 Mercans, OYO
With that and four minutes on the clock we raced back to the parking lot, diminutive dancers still there but some more mature softball players were also showing up. In the last minute Fannie led a plankorama which YHC couldn’t handle… so smoked by that point.
COT & BOM
NMM:
- #Battle is a rude awakening… more so when you’re asked to Q. I’m not sure Splinter or Cess needed what we had to offer this morning but it pretty well ruined my day. Time to make #Battle a regular Saturday stop again so that it isn’t so terrible when its time to Q.
- P200 is coming so the morning was fairly leg heavy (but for the 200 Merkins). Be running.
- And speaking of legs, T-Claps to #Battle regular @ChopShop who completed his first Marathon this morning. Solid.
- Last but not least, the F3MudRun is May 19th. YHC may not be in town… which would be sad given the consistency of my attendance at the annual spring event. ‘Run it once or twice with Splinter and once, I think, with both Cesspool and Fannie. So most of #Battle today has seen that event together. If you’ve got nothing on your training horizon, put that on the list. It’s a great F3 tradition.