YHC has been diagnosed with Tricompartmental Osteoarthritis in his left knee due to an old football (and tennis) injury where he tore his ACL at age 15 and then his PCH at age 17.\u00a0 Now much order, the knee joint is “trashed” which is the official diagnosis from Dr. David Pollack.\u00a0 Whereas he will eventually recommend a Total Knee Replacement, we are going to put that off for a while, so his current Rx is to “stop running”.\u00a0 So, YHC has an official doctor’s excuse from running.\u00a0 To celebrate, we loaded up a playlist of Doctor tunes, grabbed a sandbag and a couple of jump ropes and got after it this morning at Purgatory.<\/p>\n
Warm-O-Rama<\/strong><\/p>\n Walk down the hill and lineup.<\/p>\n The Thang, Part One:\u00a0 OSTEOARTHRITIS from an ACL Tear and before a TKR<\/strong><\/p>\n First two pax in line each take one end of the sandbag and walk around the traffic circle in front of the rec center and back as our timer.\u00a0 Third pax and last pax jump rope for the entire round while the other pax perform the called exercise AMRAP in the following order:<\/p>\n When the sandbag buddies return, pax rotate positions and move to the next exercise in the order.<\/p>\n Walk down to the picnic area next to the pool<\/p>\n The Thang, Part Two:\u00a0 People’s Donkey Bear Balls<\/strong><\/p>\n Walk back to VSF…picking up sandbag and jump ropes on the way back.<\/p>\n COT\/BOM:<\/strong>\u00a0 YHC took us out<\/p>\n FIN.<\/strong><\/p>\n NMM<\/strong><\/p>\n @D-Day’s daughter’s boyfriend’s dad is @Sheldon.\u00a0 He posted this morning and announced that he was new so the pax forced YHC to give mission statement, core principles and full disclaimer before we got going.\u00a0 #NailedIt even though he was not technically an #FNG as he had posted with @D-Day in MB.\u00a0 And he went home with the virtual blue ribbon for being the Best Jump Roper.\u00a0 @D-Day was a close second.<\/p>\n @GreenAcres was less enthused by the jump rope portion of the workout but resisted the temptation to #Omaha to straight merkins (at least once he saw that merkins were listed later on the agenda).<\/p>\n @Burlap claimed to be only 55 years old during COT.\u00a0 #F3Works\u00a0 He is also apparently composing a juke box musical featuring the greatest hits of Steely Dan.\u00a0 #DeaconBlues<\/p>\n We prayed for aging pax along with aging parents.\u00a0 We also prayed for @BAM who had HC’d to #Purgatory, was actually headed that way this morning when his phone reminded him that he had the Q at #ImpossibleSituation this morning so he rerouted and fulfilled his duties there instead.\u00a0 We were worried about him, for the record.<\/p>\n @Splash correctly predicted that #DrFeelgood would be on the playlist and exhibited tremendous patience waiting for it to come over the speakers.<\/p>\n @Tarzan nearly bailed at the beginning of the workout and went to his car but then returned and proceeded to kick this workout’s a$$.\u00a0 He was the #WarBaby at the tender age of 48.\u00a0 #WeAreGrowingOldTogether<\/p>\n @ThePonyExpress would not let #WarmORama go by without getting #MichaelPhelps in.\u00a0 Fearing an #AngryPony, YHC obliged.<\/p>\n @Boomerang was a most excellent sandbag partner this morning.\u00a0 Except when he was with @GreenAcres because they were slow as molasses as we were performing way too many of the called exercises.<\/p>\n Here’s the playlist:<\/p>\n\n
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