Weeks ago YHC signed up to Q Hurricanrana. Having never Q’d in North Durham, he made the classic mistake of “I think I remember that Hurricanrana is a Thursday AO so rather than taking 47 seconds right now to verify that assumption, instead I will toss it on my calendar and confirm the day later.” You don’t have to try too hard to guess the ending of this story.
Fortunately this story has a second act! To alleviate his shame and pay his penance to the North Durham faithful, YHC put his name down for the next available slot on the Hurricanrana Q sheet – April 7th. After quintuple checking the date, YHC was ready.
Like the friend who always says he “might show up” to your social invitations then delivers with a 50% hit rate, YHC’s 4/7 Q surely (he assumes) stirred up a sense of suspense and suspicion among the Hurricanrana regulars – “will he or won’t he show up this time?” Fortunately, and after only 2 wrong turns on the dark North Durham roads, YHC found the AO with 3 minutes to spare. One brief self-congratulatory back pat later, YHC exited his vehicle pleased that all expectations were already exceeded.
With that ridiculous and unnecessary abrogation of responsibility out of the way, onto the workout!
Stationary Warm-Up
10 reps of: side shuffle hop, windmill, good morning, overhead clap, and arm circles.
Dynamic Traveling Warm-Up
Travel the length of one parking lot bay via the following methods: bear crawl, crab walk, backwards lunge, inchworm (aka traveling burpee). Alternate 1 length of travel method with 1 length of jogging back to the starting point.
Main Event
Mosey to the Swing Set (my favorite playground element when I was a child…and my favorite playground element today…maybe today I am still a child). Complete the following with feet resting on the swing: 12 derkins, 12 bulgarian split squats per leg, 10 derkins, 10 bulgarian split squats per leg, 8 derkins, 8 bulgarian split squats per leg,
On the school’s brick wall, complete 2 rounds of: people’s chair (ring of fire 10 count) and balls to the wall (ring of fire 5 count).
On the picnic tables and benches between the swings and the wall: box jumps, dips, step ups, and derkins (I cannot remember the specific reps and sets).
Mosey to the bus loop. Split into groups of 2-3 PAX and perform a Dora: 150 merkins and 250 jump squats for groups of 2, 200 merkins and 300 jump squats for groups of 3. The running partner ran down the hill and around 2 soccer goals prior to returning to the bus loop.
Mary
Dealer’s choice – each PAX chooses a core exercise and leads the group through 15 reps of it