John Adams and his friends come to Bagpipe

John Adams and his friends come to Bagpipe

16 pax mustered for another Tuesday morning assault at Bagpipe.  Tagalong gave YHC not only the opportunity to Q but also let YHC plant the shovel flag.  A real shovel flag.  Somebody came in really late…methinks it was Cheddar, and off we went.

Ye Olde Moleskine & The Thang:

Actually, we didn’t launch until after the pax failed the first U.S. Presidential trivia question of the morning.  Question:  What 20th century President’s birthday is February 6th?  Can’t remember who answered nor what the answer was, but it was wrong.  Answer:  Ronald Reagan (of Tampico, IL #heartland).  So we did 7 H-R burpees OYO.

YHC threw out Presidential trivia questions throughout the downpainment.  Correct answer from any of the pax meant a reward of 3 H-R burpees.  Wrong answer “reward” was 7 H-R burpees.

We jogged to one of the lots in the bullring for COP.

13 slow jump squats IC

13 H-R merkins IC

13 Flutters IC

Next Trivia Question:  Who was the 16th President?  Somebody guessed incorrectly.  Answer: Abraham Lincoln (also from smalltown Illinois  #heartland).  7 H-R burpees OYO

Jog to the traffic circle with the orb, and the Raven affixed atop.  Plank on the curb and plank walk left while one of the pax AYG runs the opposite direction back to their spot in the circle.  Proceed thusly until all 16 pax ran; we reversed direction at some point meaning when YHC needed to switch.  We also did 10 merkins OYO at one point.

Next Trivia Question:

What famous American poet was born and died the same years as Abraham Lincoln?  YHC gave a slam dunk clue by pointing to the bird atop the statuary in the aforementioned traffic circle.  Not sure who – but some body nailed it.  3 H-R burpees OYO.

Mosey over to the sidewalk that encircles the small pond, and partner up for the following:

P1 AYG run around pond, P2 Freddy Mercury.  Flapjack.

P1 AYG run, P2 Widearm Merkins. Flapjack.

P1 AYG run, P2 Squats.  Flapjack.

Elbow plank and 13 Dancing Chilcutt’s IC

Mosey to the nearby hill below the lot for a little hill work.

But first another Trivia Question:  Prior to Ronald Reagan, who was the longest living U.S. President?  (not including living Presidents, as I think George H. W. Bush has now outlived his former running mate, but somebody should fact-check me on that).  Somebody guessed wrong.  Correct answer: John Adams (2nd President and first to occupy the White House…from Braintree, MA #nottheheartland).

Anyway, we ran up the hill AYG after 7 more H-R burpees & did 5 jump squats at the top.  Mosey back down.

Backwards bear crawl back up the hill & then 5 more jump squats.

Jog over to the fitness trail to the rock pile.

Next trivia question:  Was not entirely sure I was right on this one, but I fact-checked it and I was right.  Who was the only President to serve 2 non-consecutive terms?  Probably the toughest of the morning, and the pax did not come up with it.  Answer: Grover Cleveland (Grover Cleveland, the only President to ever serve nonconsecutive terms, was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States (1885-89) (1893-97).  7 more H-R burpees

We did 4 sets of 13 squat thrusts with rock overhead.

The other trivia question during the rock sets was:  Who are the 2 father-son President combinations.  This was the easiest of the morn, and several pax nailed it.  Answer: Adams (John and John Quincy) & Bush (George HW & George W).  3 H-R burpees

We then jogged to closest lot between fitness trail and the launch lot for some Mary.   Can’t remember exactly what we did, but I think the following:

Dolly x 13 IC

Slow flutter x 13 IC

Makthar N’Djaiye x 13 IC

Jog back to launch lot.

One last trivia question:  How many children did the Father of our Nation (George Washington) sire?

Someone nailed this one quickly.  Answer: Zero. 3 more H-R Burpees.

Done.

COT with the Swift Pax.  Name-o-rama and announcements with a takeout prayer from PJ asking for strength and courage.

Great work by the pax.  Good to have the 19 year-old Chunder back out, and he even partnered with the old man Q.  I like backwards bear crawls, but need to find shorter hills so we can repeat but YHC admittedly smoked himself…was planning on 3 sets of that.  You’re welcome fellas.

Always enjoy the camaraderie of the the Bagpipe pax.  Thanks for tapping me Tagalong, even if it is due to Ringer bailing on you.  #planb

Don’t forget to EH someone, and then keep EH’ing until they come.

CPR class on Saturday, Feb. 17th – see Madison for details, or Twitter and/or several Slack channels.

2nd or 3rd Brolympics coming soon at Weddington HS – see Wild Turkey for details or someone(s) else?

See you at DaVinci Saturday for more trivia — this time it will be sports trivia.