Weather: Too warm for this guy. In fact, I’m still sweating from Saturday.
Thang:
Warmups. Pretty standard really.
Mosey down 3rd Ave turn right on Road to Bottom of Oakwood Cemetery. At least that was the plan. About 20 steps into that mosey I heard several Are you ok?s followed by some You sure?s. Looked back and everyone was still moseying as far as I could tell. Stopped at the corner to find out what happened. Turns out that our boy Deuce lost a quick fight with a telephone pole guy wire. He was apparently running on the road when someone called Car Back, so being the safety conscious man that he is, he jumped off the street into the sidewalk….only to jump full speed into the guy wire across his chest, smack his leg and then throw him down on the sidewalk. Then the dude landed coconut first but luckily hit the grassy patch between street and sidewalk. Thank goodness for that. Which reminds me: BE SAFE OUT THERE PEOPLE. If we include the time that Flamer got taken out, that brings 3rd Ave’s total kills to 2.
Quick regroup, then we continued the mosey to the bottom of Hospital Hill. Short ladder called: 5 merkins at bottom, 1 star jump at the top. Run the hill and repeat till 1 merkin/5 star jumps.
Once done, your choice was either burpees until the 6 was done or go pick up the 6 and finish with him.
Indian Run to the 2nd level of parking deck ramps.
1 Merkin per parking space.
Phlegm took over the Q. Indian Run to the next level. Wall sits w/ Joe Fraziers, Ali’s, and Wonder Brah’s (yeah, technically it’s Wonder Bra). Then the dude calls a combo of Bear Crawl/Crawl Bears up the ramp. Not going to lie: Cousin Eddie crapped out on this.
Mosey’d up to the top of the parking deck for ab exercises. I believe they included Boxcutters, American Hammers, LBC’s, etc.
Time was almost up, but we found enough time to mosey the long way from the top to the shovel flag.
WOD/COT/Announcements
ETC:
- I’m not sure which relay it was, but I do recall this conversation via text w/ Jordache. Went something like this, Sometime on a Sunday/Post ______ Relay 2017’ish:
CE: you know we have to post to ER right?
Jo: Yep. Can’t look like a (cat) licking our wounds on the couch.
CE: Exactly
Jo: See you in the morning, (cat)
Since then, I’ve made it a semi-formal tradition to shame all CSAUP go’ers to get them to post on the next Monday’s ER. It usually sucks and I typically feel like a zombie for at least 43 of the 45 minutes, but it’s fun. Plus it gives another chance for some good old fashioned shaming of those that CSAUP’d but chose to stay in bed the following Monday licking their wounds like a (cat). Note: Zero chance that I’ll be at ER after TRU50K, so go ahead and shame me for that.
- Hard to imagine that we’ve only had 2 dudes wipe out during a run from a guy wire. Glad our boy is safe. The ‘after’ shots he shared on Slack looked terrible.
- Still on a Post-BRR High. Great times w/ great dudes. I’m thankful that they waited on my slow self to get up those hills and super thankful for the way they helped me run my last leg, the dreaded Mountain Goat Leg 31.
- Someone described that one like this: Run 2 miles to get to something that’s just slightly worse than the Bear. Seems pretty accurate.
- Except for the slightly worse part. Me thinks it’s way worse.
If you haven’t done a relay or ruck yet, you should. They are just lots of stupid fun. Can’t wait for the next one.
Ed out.