Borrowed a fun Q style that Banana Split rolled out at the Falcon a couple of weeks back. Basically, a series of team relay races where one PAX travels as quickly as possible while the rest of the team does exercises. YHC enjoyed participating in that format as it pushed me throughout but also kept the group together, so he decided to lead a variations this morning at Animal House

Warm-up

SSH x 20

WMH x 10

AC x 15

Reverse x 15

MC x 20

Merkin x 10

Slow Squat x 10

Mosey down the hill to the track/field with a clunky KB Indian Run. PAX were good sports and gave this a good effort, but it was poor on the fly concept by YHC, that he would not recommend repeating.

Once down at the field, we took a lap around the track and used our finishing order to determine or team make-up for race 1. (B/c we had 7 PAX, Team of 3 always had one member go twice, so that each team was completing 4 trips)

YHC had laid out 3 sets of cones at round 25, 40 and 50 yards. The only problem YHC hasn’t been to Animal House very much and miscalculated the amount of light (moon must have been shining bright during my last post). So we couldn’t really see the cones and YHC’s attempt to shine is headlamp out onto the field only made things worse. Never the less, we persevered.

Each team lines up one behind the other to start the race. At start first man in line takes off and does a sprint suicide – 1st cone, back – then 2nd cone, back – then 3rd cone, back. While he’s gone second man does merkins, third man does WWII’s and fourth man does pull-ups to exhaustion then hangs. One first man is done, he goes to position four and everyone else moves up one with second man now running his suicide. Race continue until all four PAX complete their suicide.

Winning team got to pick an exercise: Losing team does 20 reps of that exercise & winning team only has to do 10.

Race 1 winner chose Burpees.

Race 2 we mixed up the teams and repeated the same sprint/exercise combo.

Race 2 winner chose Squat Jumps.

At this point, YHC asked if anyone knew what time the sun would be gracing us with it’s light (because, you know it was still pitch dark and YHC found himself running past the cones on his sprint because he couldn’t see them at all). When he heard that sunrise was supposed to be around 7 a.m. he decided to audible to a more well lit location. We moseyed back up the hill to the basketball courts to continue the races.

We used first goal, second goal and far parking curb as our 3 distances for the next race.

Backwards run out, sprint back to start. Remaining PAX to Carolina Dry Docks, LBC’s and Air Squats.

Winning team chose donkey kicks.

Next relay was bear crawl out and back, but only to the 1st goal (no suicide component) – same exercises for rest of the team.

Winning team chose Monkey Humpers

We moved on to a bunny hop to first goal and back with teammates doing KB swings and Hello Dolly’s (no third position need as Harbaugh had to peal off at this point).

And we had our first tie! All PAX completed 15 derkins in unison led by Red October.

Final race, crawl bear out and back. Teammates doing KB overhead press and Flutter Kicks.

Mosey back to the parking lot for Mary: American Hammer, Superman holds, Freddy Mercury

COT

Prayers for Red’s brother as he faces some family adversity in Germany. YHC took us out.