Author: Christopher Crane

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Titan – 2.10.21 – Choose your own adventure

Intent was to keep PAX guessing as to what was next

PAX: Cub Cadet (QIC), Michelin Man, Smoke Jumper, Vector (R-E-S-P-E-C-T), Defrost, Crawl Space, Ask Jeeves, Hambone, Siri, Rich Soil, Blue Mule, Crablegs, Black Lung, Natural Ice, Freakonomics

Conditions:  Cold enough for most of us to wear hats, but warm enough for Mule and Soil to wear shorts

Usual disclaimers and warm-up in front of the Parthenon.

Main Event:  Top of front steps of the Parthenon was considered home base.  One random pax would select an adventure, identified by letter A-F, with outcome unknown until selected.   Each adventure included a group run to a point elsewhere at Centennial Park, followed by one minute each of two different exercises.  The group released to sprint back to home base.  Upon arriving at home base, squat jump up steps and hold plank at top.   Sequence selected as follows:

  • Adventure F: Back of ellipse, formerly near women’s’ suffrage statue. Wide Arm PU, American Hammers
  • Adventure C: Open air theater near McDonalds. Route cut short by construction fence.  Dips, Leg raises
  • Adventure E: Play set / playground. Pull-ups, LBC
  • Adventure A (fan favorite): Hilltop monument across road vic dog park. Burpees, Alabama things
  • Near time, so skipped Adventures B and D; modified by doing squats, flutter kicks at home base.
  • Sprint back to AO

COT: no FNG.  Each PAX asked to share aloud one specific item of thanks / gratitude for today.  Prayer.  Coffee compliments of Hambone.

SYITG,

Cub Cadet

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Titan – Sweating it out with FitDeck

Workout to pay homage to my B-school classmate (Phil Black, Navy SEAL, Yale / HBS, Firefighter, GREAT AMERICAN) who was TWICE rejected by the Sharks on Sharktank, yet invited back for third try.  His first attempt was “Fitdeck” (no, not Fitbit)- which he eventually sold for a nice penny, I’m sure.  We used Fitdeck for our workout today.

PAX (10) – Pumkin Spice, Blue Mule,  Siri, High Viz, Right Said Fred, Bad Boy, Michelin Man, Drago, Cub Cadet (QIC)…and wow I feel like I’m forgetting somebody.

Gloom – minimal. 70 and humid.  Nothing to complain about.

Warm-up: Short jog, SSH, GM, WMH, LBAC (F/B), SC, OHP, SOYO

The Thang:  Rounds of 4 cards each (Full body, upper, middle, lower), reps cary from 10-25, some for distance.  Between rounds sprint 200M, jog back, next round.  Exercise cards included: Regular Push-ups (Merkins), Bonnie Blairs, High Knees, Freddie Mercurys, Crab walk, LBC, Wide Arm Push-ups, Lunges, Staggered Arm Push-ups, Kick-backs, Squat Thrusts, Flutter kicks, Side Legs Lifts, Burpees, Negative Push-ups, Squats, Mountain Climbers, Reverse Curls

Ended up back  a COT where we gave thanks for all our blessings, including recovery of Bad Boy’s co-worker’s father.

Good times. I was smoked, not sure about the rest….CC

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Westeros – 6/10/19 – Junk in my barn

11 Pax on a damp, humid Monday

QIC: Cub Cadet

PAX: Crawl Space, Trapper Keeper, Pumpkin Spice, B&B, Vector, High Viz, Porcelain, D-frost, Crab Legs, Reveille

The Thang

Extended Play Disclaimer

Warm Up: Mosey from AO to back soccer field, 50 SSH, 10 WMH, 15 GM, 15 Windmills, 15 Hairy Rockettes, 30 sec SOYO, 1 min Merkins at own pace

The Workout

Staying on soccer field, pax pair up behind objects on a line. Object included Jeep Tire, ATV Tire, 5 gallon water jug, filled sandbag, 20# container of chicken feed, 20# ammo can full of rocks, and a 4”x4”x3’ beam.  One pax runs / pushes / carries object 50 yards to other side of field, other pax in pair does a moving exercise to the other side.  Moving exercises included: lunges, frog jumps / jog, sprint, backwards jog, side-shuffle, and carioca. At opposite end, do LBC waiting for all in.  Partners switch, with alternate carrying object back down the field while first partner now does moving exercise.  At starting end, do high plank waiting for all in.  Move one station / object to the right and repeat thru all 7 objects.

As an impromptu interlude, conduct modified bear crawl / low crawl / baby crawl on-line looking for High Viz’s wedding band which flew off due to the high speed at which he was conducting his Jeep Tire. Treasure was recovered safely within 3 minutes.

Repeat set as above, changing exercises at the ends of the field to SSH and wide Merkins, while waiting for all in.

Last man up run from field, around school, traffic circle and back to AO.  Last man ran with 8# medicine ball, leaving it at the front end of the line on ground for last man to pick up.

Wrapped up with 30 flutter kicks.

Announcements: Leadership luncheon and other events greater than 30 days out.

Prayers for: Alicia (co-worker of Q), Vector Family travel to Peru, Spicolli, and Gilligan.  Prayer of thanks for recovery of High-Viz’s wedding band.