This was my VQ at Tobacco Road. I generally post at Paradise and used to switch between them and The Moose, until I worked myself into a nice case of plantar fasciitis over the summer. TR has been on my radar for a long time. This was the fourth stop during birthday hell week. I was already tired, but I committed to EC to prove to myself that I really felt like 32 and not 42. Ruck EC was fantastic and we had a solid group of PAX that showed up. However, I made a bonehead mistake during EC because I decided to race with Count and ran into Bellhop. Thankfully, BH is twice my size and very strong. If it would have been someone my size, I’d probably be writing this in a hospital because I was moving. Bellhop kind of pushed me off of him (thankfully), BUT, he’s so strong that it caused a deep muscle bruise/contusion. That’s my fault, not his. As of writing on Saturday, I can’t laugh or cough without wincing on my left side. Note to self–don’t race in dark places.

This is my third birthday hell week. I started doing it in 2019–and mostly did it in Briar Chapel. The first year, I believe, was all Briar Chapel AO’s. 2020 was a mixture of AO’s mostly located in Chapel Hill. This year, I added a Durham site and mystery co-Q’s. I asked Count to be the mystery co-Q.

I had originally planned an entire 45 minutes, but called an audible because Castaway wanted a 2022 calendar of Churham men. I believe this conversation was created on Slack somewhere. Cast asked me for 9 months worth of pics of Swamp, but I only had 6 months worth. I’m not sure what’s going on there. I thought an easy way to work on the calendar was to sort trick guys into doing 34 burpees, while also asking for dudes to do a “calendar pose” on the second called burpee.

The original workout I planned was tougher, but I heavily modified probably because I was and am still tired from BHW. I am posting the original workout below.

Middle of Field: 5 seal burpees; then bear crawl to end and crawl bear back; 10 seal burpees; crawl bear and crawl bear back; 15 burpees; bear crawl; 20 burpees crawl bear; 25 burpees bear crawl; 30 crawl bear

Warm-up included the burpees poses, windmills, and a few other things.

Count did some kind of roll and merkin combination that was fun, and then he took Mary.

COT: I rarely ever say something in COT that is very personal.

That’s probably because I grew up consuming a plethora of mafia films that said to never let anyone know what you’re really thinking. I did give a message about the difficulties of this world, and overcoming them. Everyone hugged in the end, Count cried, and I felt like the angel from One Magic Christmas.