Fourteen PAX gathered at the North Gate of Kenan Stadium pre-dawn Monday for the official transition of the 3.5-year Fetzer workout to another home on account of construction that begins later this month on the central campus athletic complex. With the temperate a balmy 70 degrees, it was one of the better opportunities to break a healthy sweat of the spring.
Warm-up: SSH x 20, Windmill x 10, Squats x 10, Irkins x 10.
Run to Rams Head Plaza on east side of stadium, circle up. Merkin pyramid: 5-6-7-8-9-10-9-8-7-6-5.
Split into four groups and relocate the four corners of the plaza. Ten burpees, then bear-crawl to the next corner. Ten more burpees and repeat with burpees/bear-crawling until you”re back in your starting corner. Then circle up in center for SSH and planks while rest of the PAX finish.
Head toward Morrison Dorm with stop for 60-second Preacher”s Chair on side of Student Fitness Center.
Then run along pathways skirting Morrison and through the woods to the southeast side of the stadium, doing walking-lunges for the last 75 yards to the South Gate.
The group stopped along the stone walls outside the South Gate for two sets of 15x Dips, the second set at a significantly slower and more difficult cadence.
Continuing our clockwise tour of the exterior of the stadium, we stopped at the railings outside the southwest gate for three sets of rows x 15, two overhand and one underhand.
Then to the amphitheater to the west of the stadium for a 50-yard crabwalk to the stone wall followed by 10x irkins, 10 x diamond irkins and 10 x step-ups.
We hopped up the stairs to the brick plaza outside Gate 3 and circled up for Mary, including two sets of bows-to-toes planks and 15 x LBC, Parker-Peters and Freddie Mercuries.
Then jog through the woods back to the North Gate for COT.