After stepping out on TR last week to see #whatthebullpenisallabout, YHC was back at the helm at Thursday”s original AO and SoDu (that”s South Durham) favorite. Since I”m still taking flack for the Brodeo, I needed a solid Q – preferably one that minimized mumblechatter, maybe spilled merlot, and avoided contact of any kind, even eye. Since Elf was longing for the Brodeo by 0600, I would say mission accomplished…but not in the W on an aircraft carrier way, more like Easy company in Berchtesgaden kinda way.
Beaker”s Beginnings (The Warm-Up)
The time warp that exists between my watch and the clock in my car meant that screeching into the parking lot with a minute to spare ended up being a two-minute late start to the workout. Jog around the peanut to midfield of the soccer field for a half-order of penalty burpees (5 OYO), followed by:
10x IW
10x LBACs
10x Windmills
20x SSH
Stretch out what you need to for:
Beaker”s Beatdown (The Thang)
With Floyd having been in Vegas for pretty much all of Q2-17, I was inspired to let lady luck dictate our workout today. From midfield, flip the Official National Parks All Bronze Collector”s Edition Coin (TM) until you get a heads. Then, 75% to a corner of the field, 10x the number of tails tossed of an exercise at the corner, and jog it all the way back around and to midfield, 6-inch leghold until everyone is back. If the first toss was heads, 1 burpee.
Exercises at each corner were: merkins, burpees, merkin climbers, and imperial planks.
To say I was disappointed in the fairness of this coin would be a huge understatement. I had envisioned a streak of at least 5 or 6 tails, with the entire PAX holding their collective breath as the tally kept mounting, wondering how it could be that a 0.78125% probability event was actually occurring before their very eyes, and how on Earth they were going to survive 70 burpees. Alas, we only ever reached 2 tails before the old cowboy reared his head, but both times it was on burpees, so there was still some joy in Mudville. As mentioned above, at some point during our second round through, Elf was speaking fondly of the Brodeo, so I figured there was time for a collaborative, if not partner exercise. Jog over to the rock pile and have Cardiac pick out…well, a Cardiac-sorta rock. Line up on the pavement, shoulder-to-shoulder. One PAX holds the rock up, PAX to his right sprints two lamp-posts and back and takes the rock, repeating down the line. Everyone else is in plank awaiting the rock or the sprint. When it was all said-and-done, Cardiac was loathe to put away the rock, so everyone had to grab one for…
Beaker”s Bellies (The Mary)
On sixes, rocks in the air for Rosalita, Hello Dolly, Heels-to-Heaver, and over to Avalanche for the kill shot with the Hammer. Put ”em back, we”re done. At least my watch says we”re done, I don”t care what the car says.
Beaker”s Benediction (The COT)
Name-o-rama
Announcements: F3 Dads this Sat at TBR in Churham and Bond Park in Carpex. Take your pick, but give your kids a taste of the hard work and fellowship that brings you out at crazy hours over and over again. My boy has been begging to go for awhile now and I”m excited to bring him into this fold. It”s the sort of thing I hope and pray he seeks as he grows more and more independent of me. Well, until he can out-merkin or pull-up me, then there might be a problem.
Prayers: Chubbs and his father-in-law. Lo-Pair”s ongoing battle with cancer.
YHC took us out.
Always challenging and fun to lead. And yes, Mad Man, I promise to remind you of that feeling of not working out in three weeks. every. time. I. Q.