Fire Engine Red Pill

Fire Engine Red Pill

14 of Charlotte’s manliest men, and 1 beast from Winston Salem opted for the red pill (which is a thing that should only be used for “The Matrix” IMHO). “You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”

Popping That Pill

Doing nothing, then doing something. That transition is one of the hardest in life for many people. Folks see something challenging and are paralyzed as they overthink it, fear it, wait for it to start. Going from a group of standing PAX to the inevitable “Let’s go” is good practice overcoming a challenge by taking the hardest step: starting it.

• Mosey out to the side lot next to the playground.
• 15 SSH, in cadence
• 15 Low Slow Squat
• 15 Merkins, in cadence
• 15 Mountain Climbers, in cadence

Care To Join Me

“Grab a partner, speed doesn’t matter”, that was the call. A freudian imperative followed by moral platitude. Partner work keeps us honest. No one wants to let their partner down, so we hustle.

• Partner A: 10 pull-ups
• Partner B: run forwards across parking lot, run backwards to return.
• Partner A goes to relieve Partner B

Complete 5 rounds. 50 pull-ups each

Volunteering

There were no actual fires to fight this morning. Our run up the road to the firehouse was merely to support first responders by exercising on their driveway and creating the impression for the passers by that “the firemen are exercising to keep you safe”. We all have ways we do our civic duty.

• various plankings waiting for the six
• Burpo, 4 slow ones in demonstration.
• 10 Burpos, in cadence.
• 10 count (Young Love)
• 10 Squat Jumps, civ count.

Burpo: A low burpee. Starting position is bottom of a squat. Then reach hands out to ground, legs fire back into a plank, chest to the ground, pushup, draw legs back into a squat, final position is the bottom of a squat. No standing up for the duration of the reps.

Squat Jumps: Differs from a regular jump squat in one way. Land each time in the bottom of a squat. No standing and locking out legs for the duration of reps.

Quiet Qadence

From the firehouse, we headed back towards the launch but took an unexpected and abrupt turn down Knox Rd. Knox Rd has a nice little hill, we moseyed down it about 400 meters. Shhh. We kept a tight circle on a piece of road that was uncomfortably close to someone’s bedroom window.

• 20 low squats, civ count.
• 5 squat jumps (see note above)
• 400 meters, max effort up the hill back to the main road.

One More Time with Feeling

“Grab a partner, a different one”, that was the call. So we did. Once again, YHC was left out in the cold, partnerless. Such is the lonely existence of the visiting Q.

• Partner A: 15 diamond derkins (feet on curb, barely qualifies as derkin)
• Partner B: alternate between pull-up and toes to bar.
• Partner A relieves Partner B

Complete 5 rounds. 75 derkins achieved.

Track, no Field

Very few things get the ole heart pumping like some maximum effort runs (no, not those runs). We moseyed over to the area near the “Track for the Vertically Challenged” (or whatever you call that little 2-laner that the elementary kids run on).

• Hot 400m -ish around the track enclosure on the sidewalk, bus entrance, and back.
• 30 secondsish of walking recovery to the straight away.
• 100m -ish sprint down the straight away (after several false starts)

Gettin’ that Left One

No one likes an unbalanced set of reps. That theory was tested this morning. We shuffled over to the wall at the entrance of the school and did some windshield-wiper-esque leg lift things. We made sure to go back for that one lift on the left that was missed.

• lay on your back, head facing the school wall, with hands and fingers under the concrete rivets.
• On Q call, lift legs, and body up: Center, Right, Left, etc.
• ~ 30-40 slow reps with some negatives (10 count slow release)

Power. Off

Off we trotted back to the car lot, each PAX dripping with stink and sweat. All were gathered, only one injury (Orange Whip blew a tire on the 100, hope it heals up soon man!). Squid took us out, here are some announcements:
– Speed For Need event on October 7 (Heather’s Heros). Contact Madison for details.
– Winston Salem Sufferfest, 90min of pain, followed by beer. Contact VanGogh for details.
– Kinetic Heights, back in action on September 13th. Obstacle training. Contact Argonaut for details.

– the Moley is sort of mixed in above, the clock has run out on this BB. Feel free to add observations below.

Poptart, thanks for for the opportunity to lead.

Argo Out