Date: 2025-03-22

AO: rumble

Q: CDC

PAX: Spirit Fingers, Sharpie, Schnitzel, SpeedWalker, Yogi (Florence), Bionic, Bishop, Dunkin

FNGs: None

COUNT: 9

CONDITIONS: 39F (colder than expected), pollen count astronomical

Pre-Workout Ruck: Yogi, Sharpie, Schnitzel

Pre-Workout Run: Speedwalker

WARMUP:

SSH x 10 4CT IC

Little Arm Circles x 10 4CT IC (Forward, Backwards, Forward Claps, OH Claps)

Merkins x 10 4CT IC

Imperial Walkers x 10 4CT IC

Mountain Climbers x 10 4CT IC

THE THANG:

Indian Crab Walk

Everyone lines up on their six. PAX in back crab walks to front of line. Rest of PAX are doing LBCs. Rinse and repeat. *We made it most of the way around the parking lot with each PAX getting 4 crab walk opportunities.

Indian Run to bottom of Rumble Hill.

10 Burpees OYO

Indian Run up Rumble Hill and to back of school.

Ladder Down

5 Burpees at target point.

5 BBS at start point.

4/4, 3/3, 2/2, 1/1

Indian Bear Crawl

PAX lines up in plank position. Last PAX bear crawls to front while rest of PAX does merkins. Rinse and repeat. *Some merkins devolved quite a bit, but everyone made it to the end of the walkway.

Indian run to launch pad

Plank Challenge

If everyone lasts 4 minutes = no burpees

OR:

Winner: No burpees

2nd Place = 5 Burpees

3rd Place = 10 Burpees

Everyone Else = 15 Burpees

*It pays to be a winner! Everyone made it past the 4 minute mark! Next time, I need to make this a little harder.

MARY:

Flutterkicks x 20 4CT IC

Protractor

Hello Dollys x 20 4CT IC

Boxcutters x 20 4CT IC (Predicted by Spirit Fingers very accurately.)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

– Kickball for Leadership Florence has happened, but hope it went well!

– May 17th is our 11th anniversary. Be at Scrooge, or be a stooge.

PRAYER REQUEST:

– Prayers for Bishop…wisdom navigating modern adolescence.

– Prayers for a friend of my daughter who has been dealing with psoriasis and alopecia.

– Prayers for my colleague and her family during family vacation.

BOM: CDC

MOLESKIN:

“People really showed out today!” Great turnout for your Q!”…all words spoken until PAX one by one bid farewell, and thus, missed out on any proposed penalty reps for not getting to the warm-up on time. As I lamented, the remaining, the few, this happy few, this band of brothers, reminded me of what we still had. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. Anyways, in COT, Spirit Fingers began reminiscing and providing a history lesson for Bishop of younger CDC and his multitude of Qs and past BackBlast prose. A proposal was made that I should write a BB in the style of Robert Frost…:::clears throat:::…so here goes:

Two paths diverged on a yellow lot,

And sorry I could not bear crawl both

And be one PAX, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

Thinking of the impact on my shoulder growth;

Then thought of crab walks, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because they’re hated and deserve a share;

Though the Q’s damage to shoulders there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In pollen no step had trodden black.

Oh, it was yellow, thick as clay!

Though knowing a Q leads without any pay,

To Rumble I still knew that I’d be back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Some AO post and workouts hence:

Two paths diverged in a lot, and I—

I took the most painful with a cry,

And that has made all the difference.

Thanks for letting me lead you today brothers, and for indulging my non-analytical side!