I initially planned to travel burpee from the bottom of the hill to the top of the next hill. What stopped me from doing so? I wanted to test another segment of my workout more than finishing the burpee fartlek. I’m glad that I did it, too.
Maraschino was supposed to Q today, but travel took him away. He’s the one that made this a tax day themed workout. I just modified it for my purposes.
ME: I’m practicing what I call the anti warm-up, lately. Why? It gives me more of an opportunity to experiment with the ME. My workouts are often as much of a psychological experiment–sometimes sociological–than they are a bootcamp.
We moseyed behind CHS and did a couple of movements while we discussed Emma Goldman. Goldman was an anarchist–not my brand of anarchism, but an anarchist nonetheless.
When I was a distance runner, we did fartlek regularly. I then revealed to the men that we were doing a traveling burpee fartlek. We started up a large hill that was unmown and wet. We did a minute of traveling burpees and a minute of hand-release burpees for rest. I believe we went about 12 or 13 minutes. This segment is already Churham legend (read Splashback’s response on Slack).
The next segment was the one I was most excited about.
A theory of value—run around parking lot—first half of group that finishes first must complete 10 hand-release burpees; the second half continues to run; second group continues to run and does five hand-release burpees the second time around.
After each round first group adds on 2 burpees (12) unless they lap second group and must add five; second group only needs to add two burpees each time.
Going down in the tax bracket–paid 40 IC monkey humpers and then bernied around parking lot (symbolism was free)
Finally, gas pumps for gas tax; more monkey humpers because that’s just what the IRS does–you should get the point.
Notes: Catskill loves Ayn Rand, so the second segment was taken (generally) from The Fountainhead. Funyun ended up in the second group during the first lap. I know this easygoing guy is fast, so he ended up bumping up in the tax bracket and was penalized with the 1-percent burpee count.
