- When:06/24/2017
- QIC: Boerewors, Hoover, Rachel, Ickey Shuffle
- The PAX: Gummy, Hops, Deep Dish, The Wall, Farah Farah (R), Geraldo, Purple Haze, Alf, Jet Fuel, Blazing Saddles, Boerewors, Hoover, Rachel, Ickey Shuffle
Powdered (dough)Nuts
14 men gathered in a church parking lot this morning, ready for the well-promoted relaunch of RockZero 2.0. Wait, Flipper isn’t coming? Apparently he realized late in the week that his M was out of town this weekend, leaving him in charge of his young son. So we got the four-headed Q of Boerewors, Hoover, Rachel and Ickey Shuffle. The astute reader might ask why I am writing the backblast when there were four Qs who could’ve done it. Because Boerewors asked Hops (who led 90 seconds of Mary at the end) to do it, then Hops texted me and Haze around noon asking one of us to do it because he ended up on the road today. Haze had a lame excuse about leaving his laptop at work. So here we are. Nevertheless…
Joined by a member of the Jacksonville PAX (Farah Farah – apparently a JAX personal injury law firm), Boerewors disclaimed us, then led us across the parking lot to the High T area where Hoover and Ickey were arranging the gear. Standard warmup of SSH (which I, Haze and Hops wisely refused), MC, IW, and Merkins. 38 SSH in honor of Cheech.
We picked a partner, allegedly of the opposite speed (if you’re fast, pick a slow guy), then divided up never to see our partners again. Also, Haze and Ickey ended up in the “fast” group, so something went wrong.
The slow group moseyed over to the rockpile near the ball field where we selected a rock, then did 20x curls, lap around the field, overhead press, lap, triceps, lap, squats, lap. Ugh. Back over to the hill at the end of the big field for sevens (merkins at the top, LBC at the bottom). In the meantime, the “fast” group appeared to be mostly standing around. Haze was grunting loudly as he lifted, excited to be free of the Lunk Alarm at Planet Fitness. Apparently the fast boys got a little crazy with the talcum powder meant to keep their hands dry. Ickey warned them not to adjust themselves after applying the powder – hence the backblast title.
The groups switched places. The slow group did various things with weights (squat, overhead, bus driver, dead lift, lawn mower), while the fast guys ran around the parking lot doing things. I saw Haze across the parking lot apparently keeping up with Alf and Rachel and got excited for him – turns out that he had just been lapped. We met back near the cars for the aforementioned 90 seconds of Mary. Done. There was a competition of shirt wringing out of the BOM which I clearly won. Farah Farah was a close second – apparently as infamous as our Mr. Brady for his post-workout shirt splash.
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1 set of partners apparently couldn’t deal with parting ways as there was eight in the “slow” group and six in our group. Evidently there was some collusion; understandably so as being in Rachel’s group is cause for concern especially since we had no idea what we were doing…. good thing I was in the fast group…… Rachel lapped me…twice.
Reasonably certain that was the first time I lifted weights since ’94, other than sporadic KB workouts. Felt like Vasily Alekseyev during but already now feel like the 90 year old lady on the Medic Alert commercials.
Couple other random comments:
Flipper was AWOL after what Alf correctly called his overhyped soft relaunch/rebrand.
I must call out Mallcop who HC’d and then once again had a lame excuse about his alarm clock #epsteinsmother
Perhaps Runstopper, Hopper, Radar, Prohibition, and Hairball can join Flipper next week for the re-relaunch of Rock T Zero.
Appreciate my partner Geraldo’s constant encouragement during the downpainment….
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