Back Blast – Wisteria @ Pleasantville – LEG DAY! – July 26

Friday morning I had the pleasure of Qing for my birthday Q. As announced in the pre-blast, it was leg day.

We all assembled at the flags and on the way Airplane snuck up behind in his truck still advising me that he had to go find a restroom. No worries, I told him – just meet us at the school for the first part of the workout.

PAX:

Fridge, Jitterbug, Skirmish, Captain Crunchberry, Viking, Speedbump, Peach, Grinder and Jolly Rancher (Q).

Notice that Airplane is not listed. Although a sighting happened, he gets zero credit.

COP:

After introductions in which I advised the PAX that with a name like Jolly Rancher that surely they knew that I was not a professional and they should modify as necessary, we set off for a mosey to the school parking lot. There we completed:

• SSH – 38x in cadence (in honor of my birthday)
• Runners Stretches
• Imperial Squat Walkers – 15x in cadence
• Mountain Man Poopers – 15x in cadence (new one to me, which is hands straight to your sides, bend and touch your toes on one, squat down and raise hands straight in front of you is two, touch your toes again for three, and stand up hands down your side is four)
• Toy Soldiers – 20x in cadence

No Airplane sighting yet after COP. No worries, he’ll find us at some point.

Thang 1:

Route 66 with a Modified Paula Abdul.

We moseyed to the circle and the Q juice was strong to quite strong at this point. We split into two groups – one 5 and one 4 (Airplane would have made it perfect numbers). Goal was to mosey in opposite directions of each other and:

• Mosey to third light pole – complete 10 groiners

• Double back in reverse to second light pole – complete 10 plank jacks

Rinse and repeat five cycles which got us to the amphitheater side of the circle for Thang 2.

Still no Airplane sighting. We saw one guy running the circle who resembled him, but as he got closer it was a false alarm.

Thang 2:

Lieutenant Dan.

What is leg day without it? It’s a Jack Webb cadence with squats and single jump lunges. Start with 1:4 and then 2:8 all the way to 10:40, which we completed on the stage of the amphitheater. We stopped for a few ten counts but powered through and prepared for Thang 3.

Still no Airplane sighting. At this point it was clear to me that Airplane went AWOL after his Code Brown.

Thang 3:

Stairway to Heaven – Paula Abdul Style.

Goal was to start on the bottom of the amphitheater and:

• Box jump up two steps – complete 10 Bobby Hurley’s
• Step down one step – complete 10 dips (a little upper body on leg day)

Rinse and repeat until we hit the top. T-claps to Fridge for pushing me on the last few cycles at the top as the Q juice was all gone.

We had some left over time for Mary at the flag – honestly can’t remember what they were, but let the record stand that Viking led one round and it was not Pickle Pounders.

COT:

Count-a-Rama. Name-a-Rama. Announcements and Intentions.

In hindsight, we didn’t include Airplane in intentions but perhaps we should have because he was AWOL and we didn’t really know what to expect. Oh, well. Maybe next time.

In my pre-blast I mentioned the top ten reasons to post at Pleasantville. Well, there is now an eleventh at least for the time being in that Grinder (no, not really) has graciously placed four port-a-pots next to where we plant the flag. If Airplane only saw those, maybe he would have earned his Hometown Pizza.

Jolly Rancher out!