Cosmo dubbed today “Founder’s Day” because Brick traveled down from Hillsboro to spend a beautiful morning with us before his baby comes in September and he’s not sleeping any more. In honor of Brick’s appearance, we pulled out some of the Piranha’s greatest hits. It was also YHC’s birthday on Sunday—the big 32—so that number may have showed up once or twice.
Warm up:
- 32 SSH IC
- 32 “Piranha Jacks” IC (like Seal Jacks, but with munching jaws … switched at 16 to give the upper jaw arm a break)
- 10 slow merkins, SC
- 10 WMH
The Thang:
- WeedNFeed lap—one of the first things YHC introduced at the Piranha. Involves running around the Filbert, frog jumping every pilon. Air squat until everyone finished.
- Mosey back to the flag for a Teddy Roosevelt—a carry over that was originally introduced at Tobacco Road. A manly piece of literature serves as the timer for alternating exercises. Each PAX took a turn reading, while everyone else did Bobby Hurley’s and Carolina Dry Docks.
- Mosey down “Mount Crumpet” to the basketball court for an escalator around the four corners. Walking lunge along the sides. At each corner do 10, then 20, 30, and finally 40 merkins. YHC definitely dropped to his knees near the end.
- Mosey to the blacktop for 7’s: 6 squats, run, 1 burpee, run, all the way to 1 squat, run, 6 burpees, run.
- Assemble in the parking lot for some “Weed Says, Brick Says”. The PAX were too good at listening, but the idea was to trick them into doing burpess. SSH as default movement until Brick or YHC shouted out exercises with the proper prefix.
- Mosey back to the flag.
CoT:
- Site cleanup next week after the regular workout. We noticed lots of trash accumulating.
- Thoughts and prayers to One Directions family, who just lost a grandmother to Covid-19.
- Prayers for decision makers, from the nation and world, down to hotel managers in the triangle. Hard decisions are coming, and we hope they make the right ones to lead us out of this pandemic.
- Cosmo and Brick reminisced about the great blessing this AO has been to all the participants.
As always, it is an honor to be associated with such a friendly, good, manly group of men. I feel constantly challenged to be better—physically and socially. Thank you for the fellowship!