Bagpipe Burpees for McGee (100)

Bagpipe Burpees for McGee (100)

WORKOUT SUMMARY

So YHC pulls up into The Vine American Kitchen Parking lot at ~5:20am, and had to park in a totally distant spot, just to get a space! That’s how packed the lot was this morning. What was going on? Did The Uptown Cabaret just open a Ballantyne location behind The Vine? Possibly… Frehley’s car WAS in the lot with a bunch of rubber bands used to wrap dollar-bill wads flapped on his dashboard (he wasn’t there for a prerun).  Nope, sadly quite the opposite was true… 20+ men had showed up early for a sausage party prerun to follow the big kielbasa Bratwurst before SWIFT.  Cars kept on pouring into the lot, and by 5:30am a total of 49 lovers (run away = SWIFT) and FIGHTERS (stay & bang = Bagpipe) were ready to throw down.

YHC has been on IR for a few weeks (thks Hairball & Turkey Leg #400mRepeats #BADidea), but agreed to Q Bagpipe last minute because Mr. Bean was originally on Q, and YHC felt terrible that Bagpipe PAX would have had a pathetic workout and an even worse backblast #NONEwritten. Not to mention YHC owed my boy Cheddar for volunteering for Team Panda @ Ragnar #HIM.  Was great to see so many F3 Brothers out there for either workout… including an FNG Catheter.

THANG

Nothing fancy today… hey if you wanted running, you should have posted at SWIFT, but Bagpipers still covered nearly 2 miles of turf.  YHC was intent on completing at least 100 burpees in solidarity with McGee (100 burpees for 100 days challenge) whose mother just passed away after losing the battle to ovarian cancer.  YHC hears she was a true public servant and quality individual, RIP.  It was great to see the men of Fast Twitch honor McGee’s mom with 100 burpees as well yesterday, and again at the Maul with another 100. None of it coordinated, just brother thinking about another brother.

We did a bunch of single leg squats, reverse burpees, proper squats, bulgarian deadlifts, wide arm merkins, narrow arm merkins, hip slappers, planks, ab crunch thingamabobs,  walking lunges, most in slow civilian cadence count. We even ran up Bagpipe Hill backwards…. twice.  Somehow the workout managed to knock out Chippy with a injury.  YHC owed him revenge for smashing my kids soccer team which YHC coached on the way to a win-less season in a church league, but taking you out Chippy wasn’t intentional payback … promise… heal up.

MOLESKIN

Great work out there today fellas. YHC definitely feeling some of the single leg squat after-effects today. Not much messing around by me during the workout, since YHC needed to make sure I could complete it to begin with. It was great to post with some new guys that aren’t in YHC’s normal workout rotation.  YHC enjoyed Q’ing Bagpipe for the first time, and appreciate the hard effort put in today.

YHC would write my normal extended backblast, but the bond market consumes all my time in January… kind of like tax season does to Madame Tousseau, when he can’t assign his work to Flint and Gump.  Or like Haggis, when he actually needs to sell/build a patio when Bean and Hard Hat are lolly-gagging flashing each other in their company kilts. Or like Bunker, when he has to fan himself with leaf fronds, get his own lunch, and do his own financial analysis when Tuck is at home making more babies, or trying.  You get the idea….

PANDA’S PARAGRAPH OF PONTIFICATION

Alright, I’ll shoot straight…. Where are you Bagpipe/SWIFT guys on Saturdays? There were a great group of 49 guys out there today, and I would love to see you guys come out and get to know each other and more fellas at a coffeeteeria on Saturday. There are two great options in SOB-land: Stonehenge meets at The Vine American Kitchen @ 6-7am (JRR Tolkien / Wild Turkey) and DaVinci meets at Blakeney Chik-fil-A @ 6:30-7:30am (Tuck & 777).  YHC has made some very close friends from spending just a few minutes after the workout eating a cream cheese coffee cake across from a dude who’s eating a everything bagel with Nutella and banana.  You’ll be home likely before the family wakes up. At the very least, you may realize during coffeeteeria the guy that you’ve been encouraging in the workout has the same favorite CareBear as you, also doesn’t have a man-card, has a matching leopard print hairband to your leopard jock strap, or is an absolute prick, and you should leave him the $%^& alone #kidding… maybe.  You get the point… #postonSaturdays

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• F3 Dads go to the Charlotte Checkers Hockey Games on Saturday 2/25 @ 6pm . JRR Tolkien is organizing tickets, which should be ~$22 a person as a guesstimate. Please let me know ASAP.
• Speaking about posting on Saturdays, sign up to Q the legendary Saturday SOB workout Stonehenge followed by coffeeteeria @ Einstein Bagel: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090d4aaba729a46-stonehenge
• Please continue to keep McGee and his family in your prayers, if you would like to show solidarity with him, consider McGee’s “100 burpees for 100 days” Challenge”. YHC is HC:  http://f3nation.com/2016/12/31/just-a-hundred/
• Church on the Street (COTS). sign up and serve https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/20F0D4AABA82CA7FE3-church
• F3 Nutrition Challenge… interested? Read this: http://f3nation.com/2017/01/19/warrior-nutrition-challenge-pre-blast/
• CSAUP Savage Race OCR 5/13/2017… look for a discount code before signing up under team ‘F3 Nation’… Its the weekend BEFORE the traditional SC Mud Run, run one or run BOTH:  http://savagerace.com/event/charlotte-2017/?gclid=CNr5r8yQ29ECFYY8gQod4P0MQQ

SYITG ~ JRR Tolkien