Four Stations of Pain + Bagel Station

Four Stations of Pain + Bagel Station

Date: 4.9.26

PAX: Zephyr, Frostbite, Lamb Chop, Zima (RIRO), Rollback, Slowpitch, Bevo, Greenspan

The pax returned to the site of some historically brutal WIB beatdowns at the Peace Haven Harris Teeter.  Sadly, today’s version did not meet that standard, but everyone should feel comfortable having a bagel afterwards.

Warmarama:

SSHs, Abes, Whirlies, Standing Hammies, Cherry Pies

The Thang:

Four stations on the north side of the Harris Teeter parking lot coupled with a 0.25 mile running stretch around the rest of the parking lot.

Station 1:  Broad Jumps to next island

Station 2:  Divebombers x 5 first lap, then 10, 15, 20, 15, 10, 5, etc on subsequent laps

Station 3:  Walking RDLs to next island

Station 4:  Heels to Heaven with alternating twist at top x 5 first lap, then 10, 15, 20, 15, 10, 5, etc on subsequent laps

Repeato until time.

Announcements:

• Seventeen pax posted at the launch of the Cornerstone Project AO at Samaritan Ministries on Wednesday! This will be a weekly afternoon workout at 3:15pm.  See Wooly Bugger if able to Q.
• Samaritan Ministries service night on 4.20, 5:00 – 7:30 pm. We need volunteers!
• Slowpitch has WIB Q next week.
• Zima has Alcatraz Q this Saturday.
• See YHC if interested in Bourbon Chase, 10/1 – 10/4.

Prayer Requests:

• Healing for Huckleberry’s leg.

NMM:

• Most (all?) finished the entire circuit, working up to 20 reps and back down to 5 reps. Strong work, men.
• Lamb Chop was there early and asked, “Have we done this one before?” Response:  “Not this one, but we’ve done WIB here before, yes.”
• Bevo, the last to arrive, commented: “Those have got to be the four closest WIB stations I’ve ever seen.”  No one believed that the running portion was only .25 of a mile.
• Rollback lapped everyone. Including himself.  He and Zephyr led the way this morning, making some of us feel old and washed up.
• Slowpitch, Zima, and YHC commiserated over baseball players & sunflower seeds. YHC shared how the head of Redeemer School recently thought YHC had a wad of tobacco in his mouth, but it was just a clump of seeds in the jaw.  She’s now a pro at spitting seeds after several demonstrations.
• Slowpitch is a beast and laughed at YHC’s attempt to lead something that would cause his heart rate to elevate.
• Zima did a RIRO, 3+ miles in, 3+ miles out. I don’t envy the out portion after all of those walking RDLs.    He also critiqued the form of all paxes’ Heels to Heaven, both those present and absent from this morning.
• Bevo still has the broadest of broad jumps in the DashPax. It took him 2.3 jumps each time to transit from island to island, approximately 110 feet.
• Frostbite thought that the bear crawls after dive bombers were a special treat.
• A group of Teeter employees gathered on a bench in front of the store to goad (encourage?) us on. We’ll take what we can get.  At one point, YHC thought Zima had quit the workout and was just chitchatting with them.
• The smell of Bagel Station permeated the parking lot, making us question our life decisions this morning. For some reason, Lamb Chop left early to go to the other Bagel Station on Oakwood.  He finished the circuit twice before departing.

It was an honor, as always to lead, Zephyr.  We’ll hit up the Ardmore church circuit next time.  Just ask Burns (& Zima) about that one.