I targeted The Big Dance for stop 8 on my Global Post Challenge. Sweats was tee’d up to Q, but asked for a last minute sub. Apparently, the pax didn’t know they were stuck with me, cause we had a solid 19. I reviewed the BBs and realized this AO plays hard, so I showed up early to scout the AO and focused on the attempt to fill Sweats shoes. Unfortunately, I failed to focus much on a much more important matter.
We hit a nearby hill for Burp-back Mountain. It was a culdesac and I didn’t give much thought to street traffic until a Tesla came silently flying around the corner. Just imagine if there was only a handful of pax in place of the 19 present. While there is safety in numbers, there’s even more safety in actual safety precautions! Below are good suggestions courtesy of Knope. Let’s make a concerted effort to make safety a priority at all our AOs.
- Safety is important for all PAX, but even more so for the Q, the site Q (if he’s there) and the 1st F Q if they are there. It takes a village.
- If the exercise is near an intersection, then it should be in the intersection, with designated traffic monitors.
- Ideally Road work should have cones upstream from traffic if they’re available.
- For Hill Road work, the start or stop should always be at the top or bottom, not the middle.
- If we are going to be on roads we need to be in the intersections so cars coming up can see us from a distance. Even designate two guys as traffic patrol (in today’s case two pairs).
- We also should be cognizant of compound intersections that involve a couple intersections in close proximity, people tend to power through those.
- Hi-Vis/reflective clothes are important
- For Road work, use headlamps if available.
Warm up
Arm circles, Willy Mayes, windmill, hillbillies, SSH, imperial scott walkers, slow merkins
ME
Moseied to a near by hill for Burp-back Mountain(partnered up to take turns with burpees and backwards run up the hill until 100 cumulative burpees was accomplished).
Batwing(20IC each without lowering arms arm circles, reverse, seal clap, hold, overhead clap)
Aiken legs(without rest between- 20IC box jumps, 30 alt leg step ups, 15 single leg squats, 15 other single leg, 20 squats)
On the tennis court we traveled the width stopping after each for 10 count exercise. 4 stop in all.
RD 1: bear crawl and merkins
RD 2: bunny hops and donkey kicks
RD 3: lunge walks with smurf jacks
Mary
Without putting the feet down 20IC flutters, 20IC hello Dolly, 20IC box cutters, 20IC flutters, 10 count hold 6″