It had been a while. Shangri-La, Hillsborough’s premier calisthenics park (which technically we can only use if Buffay is with us), was free for the taking, thanks to some freezing rain. Denali and Dinghy were absolute soldiers, taking the Merkin beatdown and run in stride, and keeping our humble mumblechatter going despite the numbers… to quote Shakespeare, “and gentlemen in Churham now a-bed shall think themselves accursed they were not here. And hold their manhoods cheap, whilst any speaks of us that fought upon the freezing rain day…”

WARM
Squat-Drama x 15, Flying Nun x 30, I’s T’s and Y’s x 10 , mosey up the hill, then Donkey Kicks x 15, Imperial Hillbilly’s x 15

The Thang

This actually began at the half-way mark of our warm up: 6 bench press merkins EMOM for the entire workout. YHC made up this merkin- it’s a merkin that moves diagonally instead of up and down such that head is in line with hands in the UP position, but lower part of chest is in line with hands in the DOWN position. 254 total after 42 min (sorry fellas, didn’t need our bonus 2 merkins at the end there).

Moseyed our way up to Shangri-La, where we filled the rest of our Merkin minutes with several stations: Pull up, Bonnie Blair, Row, tricep extension, Bulgarian Split Squats, Body Curl, and 3-Bar Bunny Hops

Traveled back home.

Prayers for Denali’s niece, great reminder to WEAR HELMETS on all riding sports!!!

An honor to lead two gentlemen YHC has the utmost respect for. Aye!