6:27 — No PAX have arrived at the Rivers Edge Parking lot. Only 3 minutes until we start….
6:28 — Cat Scratch shows up and parks next to me. He doesn’t get out of his car. He shakes his head. Is he going to leave? Is he going to follow Twitch’s advice not to participate in a workout with just Pinky?
6:29 — He is still not out of his car. I think he is going to leave. Car is running. Then Twitch pulls in. Then Puffs. Then Acorn. The Jimmer. Cat Scratch is out of his car (reluctantly)
6:30 — We are off to the parking deck where I have planted 1 shovel flag, 6 buckets, and a plethora of bricks….
Warmara:
Lets start off easy……no big numbers here. 30 SSH IC; 15 Windmills IC; 25 Imperial walkers IC; 15 Merkins IC; 25 squats IC; 15 Smurf Arm Circles (forward) IC; 15 Smurf Arm Circles (reverse) IC (OK, those suck, but on the bright side its not my shoulders that are hurting which is usually the case with arm circles)
Railroad run up the deck until we get to the shovel flag (which is planted on the fifth floor…he, he, he). Everytime a PAX gets in the plank position they have to crank out 8 merkins just for fun. Up we go…..
The Thang:
When we reached the shovel flag, we also found the buckets and bricks. Pair up and start a Damn It (or two).
- While one partner runs down the stairs to the ground floor and back up, the other uses the bucket to crank out as many Derkins as possible. Running 6 floors takes some time so most PAX did over 50 derkins. Switch
- While one partner runs down the stairs to the ground floor, then across the deck and up the other set of stairs, the other puts two bricks in the bucket and holds the bucket while doing an Al Gore. This really, really sucks. Switch
- While one partner runs down the stairs to the ground floor and back up, the other uses the bricks to crank out as many Man Makers as possible.Switch
- While one partner runs down the stairs to the 3rd floor then runs up the ramps in the garage to the 5th floor, the other uses the bricks to crank out as many Newtons Cradles as possible. Switch. This one really confused Twitch and Puffs…both who got lost running through the garage. And the Newton’s Cradle with bricks was by far the worst exercise of the day. Brutal.
- While one partner runs down the stairs to the ground floor, then across the deck and up the other set of stairs, the other uses the bricks to crank out as many Iron Hulks as possible. Switch
- While one partner runs down the stairs to the 3rd floor then runs up the ramps in the garage to the 5th floor, the other uses the bricks to crank out as many Tricep Extensions as possible. Switch
That’s one Damn It.
We had 15 minutes left, so we did half of another Damn it (we made it through the Damn and skipped the It). The runs were a little shorter but included lots of stairs. No one got lost on this set. Acorn suggested running to his car and leaving his partner doing Newton’s Cradles but guilt brought him back to the 5th floor.
No Mary…there was no time. Plus 2 PAX were passed out on the floor of the parking deck at this point and were unable to move. Lots of panting. Commodore wasn’t here so there were no lakes (plus it may have been too cold for a lake to be generated).
Fun was obviously had by all!
Happy Saturday!!!