5 wayward PAX showed up for an EC run.  The plan was 5k, but one wrong turn made it 7-8k.  Unfortunately, YHC was in the mix and showed up late to his own party.  Lesson learned – bring a phone to help navigate unfamiliar routes.

Thankfully, Boucher / Prancing Horse and others were there on-time to start things off right.  As I crested the hill, I think I saw some pull-ups going on and PH assured me that everyone was warm.  So, without further delay we jumped in The Thang.

Today’s theme was taken from the recent “The Art of Manliness” Pod featuring the F3 founders.  In that episode, they mentioned 5 things that every workout should test.  There were 4 very worthy components, which I struggled to remember, and then there was Endurance.  Endurance is a component of fitness that I’ve always struggled with and also something that can be easy to neglect in a 45 minute post.  So, today’s ME was focused 100% on Endurance.

The basic set-up is that YHC calls an exercise and all PAX perform that exercise til failure.  Once you’ve had enough of the assigned exercise, you are to do merkins, air squats, and SSH (OYO) until the last PAX has waved the white flag on the assigned exercise.  PAX were also advised to call out “LAST” once there was only one PAX remaining, so that individual (cough, cough…Cardiac…cough, cough…Harbaugh) would know they were victorious and we could move on to the next challenge.

The order of assigned endurance exercises went as follows:

• Balls To The Wall
• Low Plank Hold (Boucher, PH, and Shake It crushed this one)
• People’s Chair (Ocho, Harbaugh, Cardiac, and Pedialyte put on quite the show here)
• Arm Hang (Cardiac lapped the field on this one)
• Partner Carry (Most PAX each got in a full lap around the track in – w/Shake It, Boucher, Looney, RB, PH pushing even further)
• Superman (Harbaugh and Shake It put on a clinic)
• Hollow Hold (on 6, hands and feet straight out and 6 inches off ground) – universally agreed that this one wasn’t much fun
• Crawl Bear (T-claps to Harbaugh who was crowned the Grand Endurance Champion after he completed an entire lap of Crawl Bear – everyone else Bear Crawled back to our starting point to cheer Harbaugh on and also to feel a little better about of ourselves compared to his unmatched prowess)

Using my own lackluster performance as a barometer, I’d estimate that throughout the workout, each PAX completed 150 merkins + 150 air squats + 150 SSH.

Some of us may have started late, we all made the most of the short time and got after it!  The effort could be seen on the faces as we moseyed back to the parking late for COT.

No announcements or prayer request this go round.

Apologies again for the Q’s tardiness.  It falls squarely on me to be prepared and next time, I’ll make sure I plan all aspects (including EC route) in advance.

SYITG