A loaf of bread, a quart of milk, and a stick of butter

A loaf of bread, a quart of milk, and a stick of butter

No SF…apparently the happy Nebraskan or DK is holding it hostage and never relinquished possession. Trivia question: can anyone name the other original tri-Q that led to the AO’s name?  Anywho, the veteran Hydra pax was summarily disclaimed and off we went.  Did I mention to modify if necessary?  Mermaid would not have been pleased.

The Thang & Moleskine:

YHC said follow me and off we ran to Colony Place – about 0.6 miles to the far parking lot.  Circle up for COP.  Wait a minute, where’s Ironsides?  Q failure….and we’re only 5 or 6 minutes in.  There’s Ironsides.  YHC found out later that he was feeling his oats, not due to the Q’s regimen, rather due to the flu.  More on that later.

COP:

IW x 20 IC

H-R Merkin x 20 IC

At this point, Curd started talking junk about who was my favorite #20 for the Cubs or other teams.  Somebody said Ryne Sandberg was #20.  WRONG.  Purple Haze – where are you?! Puddin’ Pop made the correction on Ryno’s #…..23, of course.  T- claps to the site Q.  The Mayor is a fountain of useless sports trivia much like YHC.  Puddin’ continued to list some other noteworthy #20’s such as Kurt Coleman, who signed a 3-year deal with the Panthers. #keeppounding  Someone else in the pax adroitly mentioned Chris Gamble was #20 as well.  The unfortunate commonality is not that they are/were both DB’s for the Panthers; but unfortunately both played at Ohio State.  Ohio State is like a bad penny or Celine Dion….they just won’t go away….and they’re everywhere.

Where was I?  Did I digress?

Squat x 20 IC

Flutter x 20 IC

At this point, Champagne had not corrected YHC’s form.  #miracle  He did call me an angry Q later, which was true…sort of.  That was after Gummy called me out for poor form on CDD’s.  Really?  Some made up exercise named by Dredd?  Is there a correct form?  Ok, YHC’s form on those is terrible.  I’m coachable, but perhaps the shredded rotator cuff is holding me back.

Ok, so we’re still in the far parking lot at Colony Place, and it’s a pretty big one…much smoother than the meatgrinder at OPES.  Let’s take advantage of that, shall we?

Bearcrawl the length of lot – 50 or 60 yards?  No idea, but some of the pax were bitchin’ something fierce.  Stop at every third line and do 3 merkins.

Burpee broadjump back the length of the lot.  #refuseniks aplenty out there….not sure if that was necessary modifications or folks were already mailin’ it in at the 15 minute mark.  Curd was mailin’ it in and Gummy called him out.  Thanks for the assist from Area 51’s most sarcastic pax.  Love it.

Lunge walk the length of the lot, stopping every 3rd line for 3 squats.

Jog to the fountain for the following:

5 Jump Up’s and 5 CDD’s x 3 OYO

5 Jump Up’s and 5 Widearm Merkins x 3 OYO

Plankorama to work the core – just as important for you BRRers…according to someone?  We did various plank, including but perhaps not limited to: Southern Gentleman, Yankee Aggressor, Chilcutt & 10 alternating leg lifts while in Chilcutt.  Need to name this one.  Suggestions: Gummy? Mayor? TR?  Horsehead?  Damn – forgot to call Makthar N’Dijaye’s.

Run back past OPES to the Methodist church on the other side of Rea Road for some rock work.  Lifting only, no running.  Took the pax about 5 minutes to procure a rock.  WTH?  And The Mayor was playing in the creekbed forever.  Don’t remember exactly what we did as we were “interrupted” by several women arriving for some early morning 3rd F at the church.  But we did overhead press a couple times, some bicep curls, tricep extension, and some sort of upright row while in squat.  Absolutely certain YHC had incorrect form on this.  Champagne was merciful.

Run back across Rea all the way to back of OPES to the only hill, if you can call it that.  You really can’t call it that, but we did Triple Nickel on the ant hill with 5 H-R Merkins at the top and 5 Jump Squats at bottom – Backwards bearcrawl up the hill in between.  #crowdpleaser

The pax then ran back to the launch lot.  Everybody said we were done, but YHC had to finish with 10 6-count burpees in cadence.  Done.

Gummy took the pax out in prayer thanking God for strong bodies to workout and then hedging with a “well… most of us that is.”  Good humor.

More Moleskine

A couple more noteworthy items:

Curd ran in – 2’ish miles roundtrip.  Also, he was excited to announce after the downpainment that his longboard/skateboard was due to arrive tomorrow.  WTH?  Anyway, he promised to ride it into Hydra soon.

Ironsides left just prior to the rock work.  He was about to spill merlot, and wanted to make an exit gracefully.  He’s on Q next week…assuming he’s not still green in the gills.  Get well brother.

F3 Golf tomorrow – come on out to play at last minute, just donate some $$ to F3Leap and heckle the pax, very few of whom have any business getting near a golf course.  Current odds on Brown wearing a Fishnet golf shirt and purple shoes are at 5:1?  And odds of Poptart – aka Beer Miler extraordinaire – donning an Ike Turner for the round are at 3:1.

I need to stop writing.  You need to get back to work.