YHC turned 53 last week (you may have seen Cub Cadet’s backblast from the OTB cruise workout in the middle of the Caribbean last week – see Titan channel), so wanted to celebrate a little late with my favorite burpee brothers (even though not a single burpee occurred). Playlist wasn’t a cute theme – just a playlist of YHC’s favorite band, Depeche Mode, who kicked off their world tour last night and who I will see for the first time next weekend. If you didn’t like post-punk British new wave or the number 53, you were not happy . . .
PAX: Black Lung, Cream Cheese, Cub Cadet, Dinty Moore, Firefox, Pep, Pop-a-Lock, Right Said, Supernova, T-cell, Vector (QIC), Wet Wipes
Conditions: Balmy 70 with birds tweeting
DM Playlist:
Personal Jesus
Just Can’t Get Enough
Behind the Wheel
Never Let Me Down Again
Walking in my Shoes
It’s No Good
Precious
I Feel You
Everything Counts (Live)
Disclaimer given and then a tradition unlike any other:
- Warm-o-rama: SSH x 53 (Pep asked “How old are you Vector?” to which I responded “Oh you will learn very soon”)
- Wander to Rec Center: LBAC x 15, RLBAC x 15, WMH 15 OHO, Good Mornings 10 OHO
- Thang 1: 53 Dora
Partner up. one does exercise, one runs around rec center: 53 pull ups, 153 merkins, 253 squats. When done, improvised rock pass on wall.
- Thang 2: Presents!
Go to hill and see what presents the HIM brought. PAX pick exercise x 53 reps, then sprint up the hill. So many good presents . . . but oddly, I didn’t ask for Black Lung’s present, as I suspected it might have rhymed with “burped peas.”
- Thang 3: My gift to the PAX
As at every quality birthday party, you get a take home gift. Today it was DIDs: 18 dips, 18 incline merkins, and 17 decline merkins (adds up to 53. Get it?). PAX was so deserving that they got a second present of the same thing.
COT:
- Prayers for Firefox’s M, kids making college decisions, and others unnamed. CSAUP this weekend and Richland Creek Run the following weekend (sign up for F3 team).
Thanks, HIM. Thinking back, the thought that at 53 I could do what I do now (even though I’m a little slow) would have been laughable. I owe thanks to each of you (not just those not present today but who spent time with me in the gloom). You’ve made me a better man, and I deeply appreciate each of you.
SYITG,
Vector