Today marks 28 years of life for YHC. Never would I have imagined myself soberly up at 5:00 am and exercising on a birthday, but here we are, celebrating 28 with 13 other PAX.

Some fun facts about the number 28: It is a perfect number, meaning it is the sum of all of its positive divisors, excluding itself. (1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28). It is also a pyramidal number (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 = 28). Just to add to its awesomeness, Twenty-eight is the only known number which can be expressed as a sum of the first non negative integers (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7), a sum of the first primes (2 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 11) and a sum of the first non primes (1 + 4 + 6 + 8 + 9). Wow math!

Now that my brain hurts from using more numbers than I have since Calculus A in 2008, let’s get to it.

Warmups:
1 – Jog a lap around the field
28 – SSH
14 – Imperial Walker
7 – WMH
4 – Frog Jump
2 – Twisting Right Angles

The Thang:

In honor of 28’s perfect properties, the PAX would complete exercises in pairs of the divisors. All of this would be done in a pyramidal fashion, honoring 28’s pyramidal properties.

The first divisor represents the mode of transportation, the second represents the exercise performed. After PAX took the alotted amount of movements, they completed the second divisor’s amount of that exercise in place before continuing the mode of travel. For instance – PAX take 2 bunny hops, then drop for 14 LBCs, rise and take 2 more bunny hops, drop… etc until they reach the other side of the field.

1 x 28 – 1 suicide, 28 shoulder taps
2 x 14 – 2 bunny hops, 14 LBCs
4 X 7 – 4 lunges, 7 body weight squats
7 X 4 – 7 bearcrawls, 4 drydocks
14 X 2 – 14 gorilla steps, 2 burpees
28 X 1 – Audible called as we were running low on time – 1 hard run around the field followed by 28 flutter kicks

Mary:

– V up Roll ups
– Ring of Fire

COT:

– the Bull coming up this Saturday – come for some or all – sign up on the F3churham mega doc

– still could use some guys for tar heel ten miler on 4/21

– conjunction junction off to a great start on Wednesday’s – come on out to Seawell Elementary at 5:30!