What? Are you sure…

What? Are you sure…

Last night around 8:30 I logged into Slack for the first time of the day and saw a note from Tagalong and One Niner.  I reacted like one of my kids when I tell them to take out the trash…wait what? I don’t remeber volunteering for that, where are the bags, when you say out do you mean outside? Like it was their first time…or mine.  So a reminder of my Bagpipe Q was a good thing.  Thanks guys!  I sort of remember telling Bucky I would take the Thanksgiving Bagpipe Q.

Here’s what happened after writing a short Weinke last night.

Thang: Mosey from Vine to Med Specialist

• 11 Merkins
• 16 Mountain Climbers
• 20 Low Slow Squats
• 20 LBC

Parking Lot Shuffle Suicide:  Line up at curb facing Vine

• Shuffle left side to first parking line
• Sprint back
• Shuffle left side to 2^nd line, sprint back
• Repeat to far curb
• Flap/Jack
• Shuffle right side to first line
• Sprint back
• Repeat to curb

Parking lot: plank-o-rama (6 inches, left arm, left leg, right arm, right leg, 6 inches)

Mosey over to the Indian Grill (grab some wall)

• 10 Bulgarian Squats right foot, flap jack left foot (one foot on the wall backwards)
• 10 Derkins
• 10 Incline Merkins
• All Civilian Count

Mosey out and down steps to Ballantyne Commons, head straight accross to Durant. Mosey up Durant to fountain (Costigan Park)

Mary:  Box cutters x 20, Flutter x 20, LBC x 20

Bear Crawl “ring of fire” around the fountain. – Dang, forgot about this…

Starfish (Split into 5 groups):

• 1^st Arm, 5 Jump Squats
• Back to Fountain, 5 burpees
• 2^nd Arm, 5 Jump lunges
• Back to fountain 5 burpees
• 3^rd Arm, 5 merkins
• Back to fountain, 10 dips
• 4^th Arm, Carolina Dry Docks
• Back to fountain, 10 dips

Mosey out over to parking deck lower level for ramp runs and more squats.  Up 1st ramp, 5 jump squats, backwards up 2nd ramp, 5 jump squats. Rinse and repeat to top.  Hops led some mary waiting on 6.  Fun times, back the way we came, backwards, jump squats, forwards, etc etc…back to lower level.  More Hops mary, thanks bro.

After a brief look at the grass hill in back of the parking garage, lowere level.  “Anyone done this before?” Kirby or Mighty Mite or maybe Loogie said “Well there it is, we can go now” or something similar.  We had plenty of time to get in 6’s. 1 merkin at the bottom, scale the wall, err I mean hill, 5 squats at top, repeat.  Encourage everyone to get one last climb, so Bucky got an extra hill in.  Head out of the Village and towards home from there.

Check Time…couple minutes remaining: Audible to BoFA, Partner up for Wheelbarrow races (sort of) 5 parking spots, flap jack, repeat.

Head Home – time!

Mole: 17 great guys showed up this morning, glad I put a little thought into this Q. Doc started the morning w calling me out about an accent comment I made (about Chicago folks).  He expects only the best in a Q before and during the workout I suppose.  Frehleys was not there so Fire Hazard decided to take up the designated chatter (the whole time) guess that means he likes me?  There’s always guys you like to see come out to share the gloom, I don’t get to see Loogie and Pat Pending enough, Paper Jam and Teddy are crowd favorites and mine.  Tagalong and Hops are  strong out there staying in front and pushing always.  You guys rock, thanks for keeping the pace up.  Billy goat and War Eagle show up a lot now and the positive attitudes are infectious, maybe you guys can drop back and hang with Fire Hazard?  Kirby is actually a pretty good comedian for that early in the morning. Mighty Mite too, but you have to be paying attention or you’ll miss his one liners.  Cooter keep coming out my man, it’s good to see you each time.  Can’t say enough for Madame T. and my friend Bucky always a positive, bright spots in the gloom, thanks for the encouragement.

It was a honor to lead you guys, really hope I didn’t leave anyone out.  Thanks to Tagalong, One Niner (and Bucky) for having me.

Lots to be thankful for this week.  Take the time today to tell someone.  You’ll make their day and feel better too.

Fredo –