Planning is for Planners

Planning is for Planners

It had been a long time since I put on my Q spurs, but when Abacus sent out a note on Friday asking if anyone wanted to take the reins at Area51 this past Saturday I decided to go for it.  While I hope to never “mail it in” with my Q duties, I really can’t say that I’m much of a workout planner.  I like to be inspired in the moment.  Unfortunately for the PAX, that usually means that I revert to some of my old favorites… including station work at the playground.  I did my best to change things up a bit on Saturday, so hopefully it wasn’t too predictable.

What we did…

• Joker arrives in parking lot at 7:01AM… a wee bit late for the workout Q… 13 guys were assembled in a circle, probably asking, “well, who wants to lead today?”
• Once I parked my BMW [inside joke], I jumped out and started running immediately… thankfully, everyone followed
• Started with a standard warm up… SSH, IW, Squats.  Noticed that Pop Tart was his normal chatty self.  Listen, the guy has a lot on his mind, and he likes to share.
• Noticed during warm up that McGee was wearing branded F3 apparel.  A very unusual sight.  It was a yellow F3 shirt, and he reminded me that years ago there was an idea that workout Qs would wear yellow shirts.  #F3Trivia
• I think the next thing we did was run over the Knox Road.  We partnered up, then we did the following:
  • Partner 1 runs to end of Knox and back [roughly 1/2 mile] while partner 2 does merkins; flip
  • Partner 1 backpedals to end of Knox then runs back while partner 2 does dry docks; flip
  • Partner 1 does karaoke to end of Know then runs back while partner 2 does squats; flip
  • Partner 1 does bear crawl for 100 yards then runs back while partner 2 does… I don’t remember actually; flip
  • During this part of the workout we ended up in front of Cold Cuts house.  Cold Cuts had an early morning softball game, so he wasn’t at the workout, but we did heckle him as he left his house.  He tells us it’s his daughter’s softball league, but we noticed him carrying a pink softball helmet that said “Cold Cuts” on it, so he may be in a local women’s league.
• Ran back to the school for some station work… sorry, couldn’t help myself… pull ups, merkins and dips… you know the drill
• To the parking lot for a series of speed laps… did 3 or 4, at full speed
• Spent some time doing People’s Chair
• Finished with Mary

Other observations

• Huggy Bear is still wasting away… could be in skinny jeans by XMAS
• Donkey Kong is in his 30s now… I remember when he first came to F3, as a young lad
• Squid has impeccable form, especially with his pull-ups [slow a steady, with periodic bicep kissing]