Cardiac joined YHC on a brisk EC 5k around Euclid and down Revere. Among other things, we talked about recent efforts to reestablish good eating habits. Never forget, you can’t out-King your Queen!

We returned to the AO to meet the crew, diligently preparing for the main event. With little fanfare, we jumped right into it.

The Thang

• 20 SSH IC
• 10 Hillbillies IC
• 10 WMH IC
• SSH with random merkins thrown in for fun
• High knees with random super men thrown in for fun (in honor of super Tuesday)

Mosey over to the lower parking lot to revisit some of the pain that OneDirection introduced us to recently. YHC has dubbed them “25s”. Like 11s, but every cycle the reps should add up to 25. Start with 20 burpees, run to end, do 5 merkins, then 15 burpees and 10 merkins, etc, counting by fives. Cosmo sang for all of us about how poor his merkin form was looking there at the end—all our arms were smoked. But the PAX pushed hard and we were out of there within a matter of minutes.

Thoroughly warmed up, we took a mosey down to the sheltered tables at the heart of the Piranha and opened up YHCs new F3 Workout Deck. You know your M has accepted the F3 lifestyle when she gifts you a workout deck for Valentines day. Love my M!

Despite all the possible ways to use the card deck, this being the first time YHC used them, we went with the plain vanilla version: take turns drawing cards and doing what they say. The card provides an exercise. Reps are determined by the following complex formula: Number + 10 , Face Cards = 25 and Ace = 100.

Cosmo volunteered his expert shuffling skills and we did two rounds of each PAX selecting a card and counting the resulting exercises. We drew a few more merkins than the Q would have done on his own, which was good, especially the Chuck Norris merkins. Traveling cards took us back to the parking lot and down to the black top. After two rounds, we took a mosey back to the flag. Kia hung back to help clean up—a true gentleman barbarian.

Mary

Again, in honor of Super Tuesday, we completed a super man ring of fire. Everyone held a back-burning superman pose while each PAX took turns doing 10 plank jacks. Cardiac threw in the wrinkle that they had to be in cadence … more back burning excellence. Ended with 40 heels to heaven.

During the CoT, we discussed Cosmo’s comment on slack about the awesome Q sheet sign up at our AO (really, really awesome!). We have a great culture at The Piranha, and should make a focused effort to invite friends and neighbors to partake. Start the EHing!

YHC took us out.

P.S. Headed over to the fire station to do a little voting and saw Bellhop ahead in line. Good example of doing his civic duty.