On Sunday the men of the Thicket were issued a problem to solve that would reveal a clue to the morning’s workout. A variation on the Fox, Goose and Bag of Beans riddle. The promise of 2 less burpees for those who solved the puzzle had a gaggle of men furiously hacking away at a solution in the hopes of receiving less burpees. Little did the men know that the riddle had nothing to do with the workout, but ‘at least you kept them entertained!’ DOI stated.

I met DOI about 3 years ago at the cougar. Through the years we’ve become good friends, and he’s always been someone YHC could go to in good times and bad times. Together we’ve laughed, we’ve cried and we’ve delt out beatdowns. DOI and YHC decided to go dutch on this morning’s Q, so we took turns trying to lay down a real smokefest on the men. If YHC knew that DOI was going to dish out 80 Ic overhead seal claps, I might have recosidered my co Q offer.

23 men wandered from out of God knows where and found themselves at the Thicket at 0545 ready to work, so we got down to it. The following story is true…

Warm Up
SSH
Overhead Seal Claps ICx80
WMH
Merkins

Problem/Resolution
Indian run up to Great Meadow

Break up into teams of 6
Problem: Travel with your group all the way around great meadow, about .4 mile.
Rules: 1 must BC, 1 must CB, 1 must do Traveling Burpees, the others can lunge. Switch when needed.

We made it half way before we realized that father time was breathing down our necks and you what they say, Father Time is undefeated. In order to fend him off we would have to get back to AO at a quicker tempo. Changes were made, moans were heard, plan was a go.

Split into 2 groups.
Problem: Get back to the AO quickly with a little bit of pain
Rules: Group 1 must travel to the next intersection, group 2 must do an exercise while waiting for group 1 to get to the intersection, group 1 will perform same exercise while waiting for group 2 to arrive.
List: Travel/Exercise
bear crawl/merkins
bear crawl/burpees
AYG Run/squats
Bernie Sanders/Merkins
bear crawl/Overhead Seal Claps(courtesy of Horny Toad)
AYG Run/squats
AYG Run/plank

Mary
Freddie Mercury

It’s always a pleasure to lead and I never take it for granted.

COT
The Big House is closed on Wednesday – convergence with The Earl!
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Bright Idea won the 10,000 pullups challenge. Rambler presented him with a shirt, a very pink shirt.
Stevie Ray’s son’s band playing The Cats Cradle. Rumor on the street: Stevie Ray might make a guest appearance.

BOM
We are problem solvers, for our community, work, neighborhood, friends, and most importantly our family. It can be frustrating at times, but those who look to us to solve problems trust us and have a belief that we can ultimately help the situation get better. Go out today and solve problems, your kids especially need you to solve problems and they need to see you solve problems so that one day they can emulate that with their community and family. Solve problems to make this a better place. Till the next time we meet in the gloom, Aye!

Moleskin
Great to see Rudy, DOI and Stevie Ray out at the Thicket.
Grunge was oblivious to the puzzle issued on Slack, 10 burpees for him.
Rudy gave YHC his 5 second in-parking-lot professional diagnosis for YHC’s ailments. It’s not looking good.