4 men posted on a beautiful Leap Day morning. While warming up YHC relayed a few fun facts. First, is that the Gregorian calendar specifies that there will be a leap year every year that is divisible by 4, UNLESS it is also divisible by 100, but not by 400, in which case it is not a leap year. The UNLESS is necessary to align calendar years with solar years because there are 365 days 5 hours and 48 minutes in a solar year which is slightly less than an even 365 days and 6 hours. Second fun fact. There is an Irish tradition dating from the 5th century that on leap day women are allowed to initiate dances and propose marriage. If the proposal is refused then the man was/is expected to buy a silk gown. After some mumble chatter we continued with…
Warm-O-Rama
Butt Kickers x 10 IC 4CT
High Knees x 10 IC 4CT
SSH x 20 IC 4CT
Sun Gods x 10 IC 4Ct (Forward and Back)
Downward Dog
Thang
We Moseyed to the track where we found 4 cones placed 50 yards apart in the shape of a diamond which was perfect for a 7 of Diamonds. We did the same exercise at each cone with the number of reps growing by 7 each round. We did 7 Burpees, 14 Merkins, 21 WWIIs, and 28 Squats. This gave us a total of 280 exercises with only 85 left. Merkins were selected with a ¼ run before each set of 20 with the first set having 5 extra to get to 365. We then found the goal post for 5 pull ups, before making our way to the covered area for 48 Calf Raises to complete the “year”. At the covered area we also did 20 Dips, 20 Step Ups, 15 Irkins, & 10 Derkins before Lunging to the back for a few Raccoon Crawls before moseying to the front for….
Mary
LSF x 20 and various stretches
COT/BOM
We counted off and closed with a short prayer.
I appreciated the opportunity to lead and hope that everyone made it through the day without having to purchase any gowns :-).