Luck of the Draw

Last Thursday, YHC volunteered for the Clydesdales Q and spent the next few days pondering a good beatdown.  I really wanted to get creative and incorporate more of the entire stadium, while also sticking to the non-running philosophy for the AO.  I decided to do something a little different, and mix it up a little, and have ol’ Lady Luck take us on a tour around the Fick.

Using the face cards from an an old deck of playing cards, YHC assigned a set of exercises and reps to each one.  We would take a lap around the stadium, draw two cards at each gate and complete the exercises on the cards.  Hearts = plank jacks, clubs = jump squats, spades = merkins, and diamonds = WW2’s. Jacks x10 reps, Queens x15, Kings x20, and Aces = Burpees x number of the gate we were at.  For good measure, I threw in a few “wild” cards for lunges to the next gate and 20 side straddle hops.  Since Clydesdales is non-running, the PAX were instructed to mosey or fast walk at their best pace to each gate. 7 PAX huddled around the shovel flag, the clock hit 0530, the disclaimer was given, and the thang was commenced.

Warm-up

Side straddle hops x25
Don Quixotes x20
American Hammers x20

The Thang

Gate 5: 5 Burpees, WW2s x20
Gate 6: Jump Squats x20, SSH x20
Gate 7: 7 Burpees, Lunge to next gate
Gate 8: SSH x20, Lunge to next gate
Gate 9: Plank Jacks x20, Lunge to next gate
Gate 10: Jump Squats x20, Lunge to next gate
Gate 1: 1 Burpee, SSH x20
Gate 2: Jump Squats x10, Merkins x15
Gate 3: 3 Burpees, WW2 x15
Gate 4: SSH x20, Plank jacks x10
Gate 5: Jump squats x 10, SSH x20
(Hopefully, this list is correct…YHC tried to keep the deck in order but managed to drop it at Gate 4 and scattered the cards. Serious breach of Q etiquette!)

By the time we finished back at Gate 5, the clock was pushing 6:13, so we moseyed back to the flag to spend the last couple minutes with our old friend MARY.

Box cutters x20
Flutter kicks x20

BOM

Puppet Master’ chemistry class
Students taking EOGs this week
Carol Keech
Hacksaw and his wife’s pregnancy
T-bone’s daughter, Anna
Coach Will Bland at Rose for loss of their child
Papa Smurf, Crack Corn, Steamy

COT

GrowRuck sign-ups
Sasquatch coming up
Volunteers to help Papa and Mary Ann
Recruiting 8th graders for Early College (contact Puppet Master if you know anyone that’s interested)

Moleskin

Absolutely great work by the PAX today.  One of the things we talked about this morning was how the Gate 5 site was originally conceived by Papa Smurf as a non-running AO.  The Clydesdales are working to uphold his idea and provide a quality beatdown!  For those guys that aren’t runners, that are on the mend from various injuries, or have just been fartsacking it and need to shake the rust off, come on out to Gate 5 on Thursday mornings.  The Clydesdales will put you to work!