AO: The Chieftain
When: 09/01/2021
PAX:
Number of Pax: 8
Pax Names: Double D, Dutch, Foxhole, Lowes, Pinto, Sand Trap, Strudel, Woody,
Number of FNGS:
FNG Names:
QIC: Pinto
The BackBlast:
8 HIM met in the Indian Valley Gloom for a Pinto led “Training for the Hammer” beatdown featuring exercises to prepare the body for Monday’s Lehigh Valley Manniversary competition and an abundance of rain complements of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Ida; but hey, “if it ain’t raining, we ain’t training”! YHC modified the original beatdown to prevent the PAX from melting; lucking wind was not a factor, so there was no danger of a house inadvertently landing on their noggins.
The Disclaimer was Given …
The Warm-Up:
| Side Straddle Hops | IC | 20 | |
| Arm Circles | IC | 15 | |
| Circle Arms | IC | 15 | |
| Abe Vigoda | IC | 20 | |
| Weed Pickers | IC | 20 | |
| Small Mosey | |||
The Thang:
(All done under the Pavilion aside form the Mosey) … Four Times (with a small rep reduction on the last round to allow time for the Mary)
| Carolina Dry-Docks | IC | 15 | |
| Mountain Climbers | IC | 20 | |
| Squats | IC | 20 | |
| Merkins | IC | 15 | |
| Step-Ups | IC | 20 | |
| Burpees | OYO | 10 | |
| Small Mosey | |||
6MOM:
Mary led by committee featuring: Flutter Kicks, American Hammers, Box Cutters, Boat/Canoe, Annie’s, LBC’s, Freddie Mercury (and one or two others than I can’t recall.
COT:
Prayers for positive health, family struggles, and wishes for PAX in their career paths.
Reflection:
It isn’t easy to pry one’s self out of bed at 5 am for a rainy morning butt-kicking, and for many of us probably didn’t want it when the alarm went off. With that said; we all certainly needed it. The esprit of shared pain, the comradery, the shared fellowship.
Today we did it in the rain just like we do it in the sun. Today was truly the gloom; dark, wet, but it’s a constant reminder of what we’ve built and what we’re building.
“If you build it they will come”; and we do and will, in droves!