Old School

HISTORY (1917 - 2010)
E. Rivers has the distinction of being one of Atlanta's oldest public schools. Originally called Peachtree Heights School, it opened its doors in 1917 as a two-grade schoolhouse on land that was donated for this specific purpose by Atlanta developer Eretus Rivers.

PRUMC Boot Camp has exclusive use of the campus for basic training. The campus is tailor made for Boot Camp. There is a Track. stairs, huge yard, basketball court, playground and courtyards.

This morning we warmed up on the track then began with some stretching on the basketball court. A few of us did pull ups on the playground. We ran up two sets of stairs to the stump garden (an outdoor classroom in a courtyard.) We exercised our repetition count up to 200 doing stair step aerobics, dips, push ups, and squats. We ran around the front of the school and through the parking lot to the driveway and back down to the track. We did a set of 8 count body builders on the grass. We ran up the stairs again back to the stump garden for legs raises, leg presses, and a set of plyometrics. We circled again back to the track and after a few push ups we split into 3 groups. One group was either on the track or the bleachers. They did lunges or V sits. Another group was on the basketball court doing core exercises. The third group was on the swing set doing crunches, leg curls and squats. After 20 reps, each group switched stations.

We ran a Muscogee mile at the end of the workout. The square block that sits on Peachtree Rd and Ptree Battle is exactly a mile (how did they know we were coming?). We call it "the Muscogee mile" because the 30 degree hill we climb from its base on Rivers Rd.

700 repetitions. 3 miles.