The dawning of April brought 0545 temperatures of 60 degrees—quite a contrast from that three-week run of consecutive readings at 17-18 degrees around the holidays. So it felt great for 10 PAX to work up a sweat running the stairs in Kenan Stadium Monday morning.

The Thang:

Warmup SSH x 20, Willie Mays Hays x 10, Windmills x 10, Jump Lunge x 10, Arm Circles front and back x 10 each, Carolina Dry Docks x 10 and Merkins x 10.

Mosey into the stadium and open with a jog around the field.

Then we made nine round-trips up and down the stairs, one PAX taking off, the next waiting for a 10-count to go, and so until all 10 ran. While waiting to run, the PAX on the field did designated exercises for the duration—bows-to-toes planks, merkin/CDD combos and squats, rotating that trio through.

Thus each man got his cardio-vascular system pushed as well as core, shoulders, chest and quads/hams.

Then we bear-crawled one width of the playing field in the west end zone and walk-lunged back and then ran another lap around the field.

Six Minutes of Mary was Dealer’s Choice: LBC, Heels to Heavens, Peach-Pickers, WWIIs, Freddie Mercurys, Box-Cutters and Flutter Kicks.