YHC turned 25, and decided start the quarter century celebration off right. And “off right” meant 25 of the world’s worst merkins. So, we gathered at the Devil’s Ridge lot, and once EC had made it from the pullup bar, we got to it.

Warmup:

• Slow merkin x10
• Overhead claps x10
• LBACs and reverse x12
• WMH x10
• 5 burpees OYO

The Thang: 

There were four phases of merkins with a brief intermission. All of these were done in the Science Drive parking lot.

Brief (d)erkin set to warm up outside the parking garage:

15 derkins, 15 erkins, 10 derkins, 10 erkins

Phase one: Interval sprints with pushups. PAX ran down to the end of the pillars in the parking lot and back, and did 10 merkins. Remaining time was for rest. We started with 1 minute intervals, and quickly shifted to 1:15 so we didn’t start coughing up blood. Merkins were as follows:

– merkins
– hand release merkins
– tricep push-ups
– crucible push-ups
– fingertip push-ups

Phase Two: Run up each level, do a set of 10 merkins at each level.

– one legged merkins
– EKG merkins
– Carolina drydocks
– widegrip merkins
– diamond merkins

Intermission: Ran to the top of the parking deck and did a round of howler monkeys. I thought that my pecs would see the worst of the workout, but 15+ guys doing 10 count howler monkeys made me rethink the notion.

Phase Three: Run back down, stopping to do 10 merkins at each level.

– Spiderman merkins
– plank-jack merkins
– opposite staggered 1
– opposite staggered 2
– boyahs

Phase Four: Bear crawl down the garage, stop at each pillar to do a set of 10 merkins:

– clerkin
– knerkin
– Floyd Mayweather
– Superman merkin
– Mountain climber merkins

Grand Finale: Finding some wall in the garage, we did 10 handstand merkins, and then partnered up for 10 perkins each. Ran back to AO, for 5 of the world’s worst merkins. All told, we did 25 different types of merkins. It was awesome.

Mary: 

20 Flying v’s
20 Freddie Mercury
20 LBCs

Thanks for coming out to celebrate fellas, it has been a wild ride to be part of the F3 Churham community. Can’t wait to see what comes next. SYITG.