On a crisp December morning. Well not so crisp but it was December 20 HIM congregated at Possum Trot for the 2020 South Wake CSAUP..Ruck Style. That’s right all of us were carrying rucksacks with the appropriate weight inside. Trust me I checked. Cadre Breach was joined by Cadre Blue Hen and Cadre M4L. We kicked off the first workout at the Trot with Fonzie at the helm.

@Farva, @Dawgpound, @POTS, @Blue Hen, @M4L, @Finkle, @Bondo, @Alpine, @Flannigan,

@Fanny Pack, @Dauber, @Bingo, @Pikachu, @Latiner, @16-Bit, @Sprinkler, @LED, @Fonzie, @H1N1 and

@Breach on the Q

Possum Trot Q #1 BB (Fonzie)

25 days of Christmas

Chestnuts Roasting (Chest press with the ruck)

Hanukkah Billes ( Hillbillies)

Reindeer Rows (Rut Rohs)

Imperial Nutcrackers

Santa Squats

Taint Tinsel (Swings with the Ruck)

Merry Merkins

Abominable Snowman (LBC’s with the Ruck)

S-Hat Burpees (10)

After the Trot workout, we hit the pavement for our trek to Mutiny. There were 5 coupons in play 2 Firehoses, 2 Pain Sticks, and a sandbag. The load had to be shared by all so everyone took turns embracing the suck. Sprinkler decided to take a dive in the ditch and almost took himself out before we got to his Q. The pax only racked up 2 violations along the way.

Mutiny Q (Sprinkler)

Arrived to have 2 penalties. With pack 20 merkins, took the pack off for overhead press for the second penalty. Off to the parking lot. Lined up to do Irkins, Derkins and dips on the curb with crab walk and lunge walks from one side to the other for a total of 4 rounds.

Moseyed to Rockpile and claimed a partner. Partner 1 curls, bus driver, rut rows while partner 2 ran to 2nd light poles. Rinsed and repeated. Ended with 5 burpees OYO.

The Pax was given 5 mins to rehydrate, refuel and repack before getting back to the action. The pax were allowed to leave 1 coupon behind and they voted to get rid of a pain stick so we left that behind in the support vehicle. We pressed on to the next AO..The Nest. Upon arrival at the nest we grounded the coupons and the packs for the Nest Q via Finkle, there were no violations on this part of the trip.

Nest Q (Finkle)

Pax was taken down to the walls and the fence line for some Balls to the wall and people’s chair sets. On the first set we counted to 25 for Balls and seal claps to 25 till we got all the way around and then set 2 we did shoulder tap Ball and overhead claps. This continues till we got down to decreasing by a 5 count each round.

Second activity was bears and dans.  Bear crawl two parking spaces than did Lt Dan Taylors building each time up to 10 squats and 40 lunges.

Pax was given another 5 minutes to rehydrate and refuel, we lost H1N1, Fonzie and LED after this AO. The decision was made to leave the sandbag and a pain-stick behind for good behavior. Onward to Casino Royale. Along the way Cadre Blue Hen decided to have the pax do some Indian Runs. The back 2 guys run to the front and tuck in behind the flag bearers. During the journey he had them try to beat his timer, Flannigan with wings of glory ran ahead of the colors which resulted in a violation for the pax.  Which was assessed by him when we arrived at Casino Royale. 22 Diamond Merkins with the packs on.

Casino Royale (Fanny Pack)

BOMBS at the Casino. With a lot of the wall working and bear crawling already taken, YHC had to go to a hybrid plan C. @Dauber knowingly chose a number of reps to start with (15) and @Farva unknowingly chose B1 -Burpees rather than B2- bench presses with the ruck. 2 groups Indian run with no rucks in opposite directions. When groups meet, we did BOMBS. 15 burpees OYO, 25 Overhead Press with a ruck, 35 merkins, 25 big boy sit-ups, and about 3 minutes of squats.  Both groups got around the large track twice. YHC did call an audible and chose mercy over punishment and ended the squats about 20 seconds early. Honored to be a Holly Springs Pax and allowed to lead today with my brothers in the Quay!

Pax was given the last 5 min break of the day for hydration and fuel before stepping off for the final leg back to Possum Trot. Once we got to the railroad tracks Blue Hen decided to take the pax down the iron highway. The trek was slow going as the town of Fuquay did not place railroad ties very symmetrical to each other. We got a bit spread out due to the uneven terrain, but we got back in line for the final push up the hill and back down to the trot. We dumped our packs and coupons for the final time and headed to tennis courts to get smoked one more time by 16-Bit.

Possum Trot #2 (16 Bit)

PAX lined up on one sideline of the first tennis court to perform what I’ve named a Crab Boil. PAX crab-walked to the corresponding sideline of the next court where we performed 15 crab cakes in cadence. Resumed crab walk to the next court and did 15 crab bumpers (inverted pickle pounders). We were supposed to crab walk to the same sideline on the next court but a silver sneakers tennis tournament was starting to show up and that last court was getting occupied so our last crab walk was only to the sideline on the other side of the court we were on. When we got there we did 15 crab jacks in cadence.

The aforementioned tennis tournament stopped us from being able to rinse and repeat so we audibled to batwings which consisted of 10 of the following, forward arm circles, reverse arm circles, seal claps, and overhead claps.

We headed down the hill towards the baseball fields and circled up for Mary. We started with 20 American hammers in cadence and then went to Dr. W’s. These are one of my favorites but always cause a lot of confusion. It’s an 8 count exercise that we lost count during so I stopped after 7 or 8 of them. We finished up with an LBC circuit of regular, reverse, and side LBCs.

We ended in a very large COT with some great messages passed about our involvement in the community and our impact on others. We closed in prayer and got back to the front of the park for some very much needed coffee and biscuits courtesy of Forceps.