Is Heat Lightning The Next Chapter?

YHC decided last night to bring an old friend out to #WestSideStory for his Q… “Choose Your Own Adventure.” Shot out a tweet and got some HCs for the workout and for EC. YHC, Haavaad, Tip, Fruity, Patch, NoIDeer and Ratched got a little ruck in at 0440. Circled up at the flag at 0530 and were joined by Tap (aka Small Sack), Backhoe and Pothole. Disclaimer given and we were off…

WarmUp

Good Mornings x11 IC

SSH x11 IC

Butt Kickers x11 IC

The Thang

All PAX have been through a “Choose Your Own Adventure” series here at WestSide so they were familiar with the ground rules. PAX would choose their location or “chapter” and YHC would provide the beatdown upon arriving at the location. The first PAX that got to choose a chapter was the oldest PAX which was Spinal Tap (beat Patch by a month) so Tap chose…

The “Pain”Ground

Partner Up and each partner performed the following exercises while the other partner ran from the painground to the flag and back. Each partner will perform AMRAP of all exercises;

Step-ups

Swerkins

Pull-ups

Dips

For the next chapter the PAX who got to choose was the PAX born in the State furthest away from NC. Somehow Fruity got disqualified so NoIDeer took the prize here (NJ) and chose…

The Baseball Field

PAX would partner up again (different partners).

Partner A performed People’s Chair at home plate while Partner B back peddled from home plate to foul pole. Partners flapjacked. Next Partner A performed BTTW while Partner B ran the entire perimeter of the OF from foul line to foul line. Partners flapjacked again.

For the next chapter, the PAX who had the most kids (that they claim) got to choose. NoIDeer won again (with 4) but YHC did not allow him to choose again so Patch took this one with 3 and he chose…

The Church Building

We had a little 4 corners fun at the building. Corner one, performed the following exercises;

(5) SkiAb Merkins

(10) Mountain Climbers

(15) Carolina DryDocks

(20) CopperHead Squats

PAX would run to each corner and perform the same exercises but increase the number of reps by 10 at each corner. So at the end of all corners, PAX performed a total of 80 ski ab merkins, 100 mountain climbers, 120 drydocks and 140 copperhead squats. This chapter was a true beatdown. At corner four, even Tap struggled a bit with all those SkiAb Merkins.

Had about 10min left and was going to let a PAX choose another chapter but Tip upset YHC by slowing down the cadence on the last round of squats so YHC called an audible and chose his own chapter…

The Side Parking Lot

Here at the parking lot, YHC introduced the PAX to Lt. Dan’s long lost cousin, Lt. Brown Bear. Lt. Brown Bear would be similar to Dan but instead of lunges and squats, PAX would perform bear crawl and merkin (4 bear crawls, 1 merkin… 8 bear crawls, 2 merkins, etc). PAX complained that this was not in the lexicon but guess what, it will be now! Lt. Brown Bear all the way to the last light pole and then Lt. Dan all the way back.

0615 was upon us so moseyed back to the flag…

Prayer Requests

• Patch’s 2.0 traveling to South Carolina this weekend
• Praise for Patch and some work news
• SoftShell’s 2.0 diagnosed with diabetes

Announcements

• Rafiki has the Q next week out at WestSide
• YHC has the Q Thursday at The Clydesdales

Moleskin

Happy to breakout the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series again here at WestSide. Luckily we got done before too much lightning and the rain came in. Throughout the EC and workout, lightning was in the distance and there was some serious discussion if “heat lightning” was truly a thing or just “Fake News.” Good push today by all PAX and really enjoyed the mumblechatter! Until next time…

Stabler Out