Rain, but not Delay

Rain, but not Delay

POSTED FOR ADOBE… COPY AND PASTED

13 PAX assembled at 0530 hrs in the South Charlotte Middle School Parking lot at Base Camp despite a soggy forecast.

After the usual preamble, which included the welcome, disclaimer, and plea not to sue F3 or the Site Qs, first-time QIC Adobe led the group around the parking lot for a warm-up lap.

Fireman Ed wondered out loud how “virgin” Q Adobe had managed to get by without Q-ing until now, some two years after his first post. It was attributed to a mix of schedule conflicts and stealthiness—but his cover is now blown.

The exercises started with:

Side Straddle Hop  x 25

Imperial Walkers     x25

Mountain Climbers  x25

Merkins                   X25 (in cadence, so 50 merkins)

A few of the PAX thought that x 20 merkins were enough and started to call out “Halt,” which was promptly ignored by the QIC.

Next, the group ran a half mile in the dark to Rosecliff, stopping at every speed bump to do 5 burpies.

At the entrance to Rosecliff, Pax had the “privilege” of doing a Ladder workout: burpies at the top of the hill and low slow squats at the bottom. This is when it started raining in earnest. Undeterred, Base Camp PAX pushed on.

Divided into two groups, the PAX huffed it back to the SIX doing Indian Runs. The idea is that each group stay tightly together, but the train looked more like an accordion, expanding and contracting with irregularity. Finally Deep Dish had enough of the nonsense and picked up the pace. There was some discussion about which group was the fast one and which was the slow one.

On the way back to the parking lot Tweetsy and Insomniac showed off their BRR pace.

Next, the PAX did some Balls-to-the-Wall. Insomniac gave a strong 10-count, but later complained about scratching himself on the brick—he might have taken “balls-to-the-wall” too literal. Only he knows.

Smash also gave a strong 10-count.

Some Arm Raises finished out the wall portion of the workout.

With a few minutes left, Base Camp PAX partnered up and headed down to the slick track for “Catch Me if You Can.” Partner 1 starts off running, and Partner 2 does 10 LBCs and then sprints to catch Partner 1—then switchorama.

The group only had time for once around the track, then it was moseying up to the SIX for some MARY.

MARY:

Heels to Heaven

Freddy Mercury

0615 hrs: By this time the rain was pretty steady, but was almost welcomed after the PAX pushed themselves.

Moleskin:

The Namorama revealed that it was Jello’s 1 year Anniversary. Congrats!

New to F3 was Isaac VanDyk, son of Smash (VanDyk). Multiple name options were thrown out, but the group eventually settled on “Chim Chiminey.” Welcome!

Soggy, but happy to start out the week with a post, Base Camp PAX delivered a solid workout, despite the rain.