Crossing the Border

  • When:03/04/17
  • QIC: Paper Jam
  • The PAX: Bullwinkle, Shake & Bake, Smokey,Madison, Hairband, The Count, Shepherd, Manziel, Woody, Double E


Crossing the Border

10 PAX ignored the freezing temperature to get swole at my guest Q in the Valley of the Sun.  Since Madison, Scalper and Champagne ran me into the ground this week, I was concerned about becoming a runner and developing soccer arms, so it was time to focus on arms and abs.

After a quick disclaimer it was a short mosey to the baseball diamond (spring training has begun) for the:

COP: SSH x 15, IW x 15, arm circles x 15, toe tap crunch x 15 and 5 merkins OYO in between each of the exercises.

The Thang:

Mosey across the street to the Goddard School parking lot and grab a lifting rock: 3 rounds of 20 reps: curls, shoulder press and triceps extension, triple lindy between rounds.

Mosey back to the middle school and find the tennis courts for ab escalators. At each corner perform the given exercise: flutter (10), heels to heaven (20), toe tap crunch (30), LBC (40)

Mosey to the benches near the yellow buses. Round 1: Dips (25), incline merkins (20), Round 2: Dips (25), incline merkins (20), diamond merkins (10). Round 3: flutter (20), heals to heaven (15), TTC (15).

Mosey to the playground in between the elementary schools for pull ups and decline merkins. Three rounds: 5 pull ups, 10 decline merkins. Then circle up for some abs:protractor (chosen by Smokey) then back scratchers (chosen by Double E).

Mosey to the practice football field for Field of Plank. Jog to a line, perform the called plank. Elbow plank, regular plank, elbow plank, right arm high, left arm high, elbow plank, reverse plank and finish with 10 reps of Makhtar N’Diaye (some trivia: his middle name is Vincent).

Return to the launch site with some time left for 3 Rounds of supline pull ups and merkins 10 of each and finish up with LBCs. (Forgot to mention: on the way back found a small hill for 10 more incline merkins)

Moleskin:

When Madison reached out to me for a guest Q slot he told me that this was a fun AO.  He was not kidding, I felt like I only scratched the surface of all the fun that a Q could have at this site. This location rivals Hugh McRea Park in Wilmington as one of the best sites that I have visited.

I appreciate Madison and Double E taking me for a “tour” of the grounds right before we launched, I had performed a drive through and looked on google maps, but there is nothing like running around the site to make sure what you had planned would work.

I discovered some interesting things in Union County (1) Madison likes to wear running tights but no shorts, (2) Woody wears a scarf to an F3 workout, (3) Shake & Bake doesn’t follow me on Twitter or he wouldn’t have showed up with a Boston Red Sox license plate (10 burpees for that), (4) Bullwinkle likes to make an entrance, showing up late and triggering a UC tradition of a  5 burpees penalty for everyone (I am an SOB so I respectfully declined), (5) Manziel is a proud Browns fan (maybe he should go see Fraizer for that issue).

For those involved in the pull-up merkin challenge, the final numbers are 135 merkins and 45 pull ups.

One of the blessings of Qing outside of your area is meeting other great F3 PAX and realizing we are all part of one big community.

Thank you Smokey for taking us out and I am always  humbled and honored to serve the men of F3.

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Madison
Madison
7 years ago

Awesome workout today PJ. Thanks for reminding the Outland PAX that running tights are different than yoga pants

Hair Band
7 years ago

Tight pants are still tight pants, and as a whole should be left for the Ms.

Thanks for coming out PJ, great to have you Q!

Paper Jam
7 years ago

Forgot to mention Smokeys footsie running tights

Double E
7 years ago

Great Q Paper Jam!! Awesome to have you in UCo this morning and hope you come back again sometime to experiment on the rest of the AO. You brought some new flavor to the site and it was a great beat down for sure. Smokey’s Footie Pajama-Gram Tights were legit. Madison did finally put on some tights cover up shorts sometime during the workout which made everyone in the group much more comfortable. I really do not know what to say about Woody’s Scarf. It was very strange but he rattled off 58 different uses for it to try to rationalize why it was a good idea to wear a scarf to a workout #stillnotevenclosetoconvinced. Bullwinkle thinks it is funny to make the PAX perform penalty burpees for arriving late. #funnynotfunny #getupandgetgoing. But good work by all today! And the fellowship of 2nd F at McD’s was just icing on the cake!

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