Mary interrupts Mary

Mary interrupts Mary

The looooooong way around how the Conviction PAX finally met Mary

Slight back story:  Spent the weekend driving down to Huntsville AL then to Birmingham AL for my daughter’s LAX games.  In the back seat of the truck was my 2.0 (Choppa) hacking away with a mild end of Winter cold.

Fast forward 5 days:  Alarm goes off at 4:45 and the last thing I want to do is get up after spending all night coughing thanks to 2.0, but YHC has the Q and telling this PAX in the UC that I fartsacked a Q for a little cough is not something I was willing to take harassment for.  (I will hold that card for one of those 40-degree nasty raining mornings) Any way, pour some coffee, grab the weinke, I load up the Gypsy-truck with the gear (yup gear for the boot camp) collect Christmas and off we go.

5:30 time to make announcements. In recent conversations regarding moderate AOs, if the attending pax are all long standing F3 members with no injuries, the site modification is converted from a “moderate” to a standard F3 Boot Camp.  Looking around I take note that all members in the PAX have Qed at some point and as such, I declare the site is not moderate today.  This was perfect because it was cold and extra running added in would help keep everyone warm.

Time to mosey:

It did not take much time for the PAX to realize I was a little out of it from not feeling well when I pointed the direction we were going to run and took off the other direction.  Whatever, I knew in my mind we were circling around, but words were not working yet for me after about 3 hrs total sleep.  Finally getting where YHC pointed, we circle up for warmup as we hold for whoever that was that came screaming in on 2 wheels.

Warm-up:

• SSH: forgot the number, just kept doing them until who ever that was pulling in caught us.  (Look, here comes Woody.)  He indicates the light at the intersection of 74 and Stallings held him up, so in UC fashion of course we had to do 5 Burpees in honor of such a wonderful delay.
• Low Slow Squats: x 15
• Michael Philips x 10 seconds
• IW: x 14

Mosey around the school to the back bus lot where the YHC’s truck is waiting for us with some fun coupons in the back.  Each pax picks their chosen coupon after being told they will be for lifting and not running.  (we had concrete blocks of 3 sizes and few different weighted kettle bells).

The Thang: Deck of Death (WIB)  PAX divided up into 2 groups

Instructions:

Clubs = Hand Release Merkins

Hearts = Squats (with coupon)

Diamonds = WWII sit-ups

Spades = Over head press(with coupon)

Number = number of reps
Jacks = 11
Queen = 12
King = 13
Ace =14

• Draw card and perform said exercise
  (Exercises are performed as a PAX in Civilian count)
• PAX mosey to designated location and return to draw next card.
• pax can begin performing said exercise, but count as PAX does not begin until the 6 is back from the mosey

Mubblechatter was very light with the constant movement by everyone.  Not much to discuss on this one as the PAX got to work knocking this card game out with the only general complaints that YHC did not shuffle the deck very well.  However, I deflected to Bullwinkle since he cut the deck before we dealt out the 2 stacks.  ? Ended the card game at the awkward time in the beatdown where it is not enough time to repeato  (although I mentioned it and the PAX declined) but too much time to start Mary.

Not a problem… because YHC may not be a Professional as declared at beginning, but I am a Professional at not being a professional and this ain’t my 1^st Q, so we mosey over to the playground for some impromptu.  Not enough time for finding Dora, but the tables look great for a quick round of DIPs, Derkins, and step-ups.  15 each.  Finish up and mosey back to the flag from some classic core burning Mary.

Mary:

• Hold legs at 6 inches for the 6 to arrive. (mubblechatter starts on this one wondering if the six was out looking for Dora)
• Dollies
• Rosalittas
• Heels to Heaven (IC on this was all over the place… oh well.. just do them)
• Protractor (in comes Mary) Imagine this if you will: Here we are at the end of a Boot Camp beatdown counting out cadence as we laying in the middle of a parking lot and out of the Gloom comes a lady’s voice (Mary) asking what school we are at?  . I stated at the start I was not feeling well so it might be a hallucination.. Nope.. its real….  After all this time doing F3, YHC finally gets to meet this Mary person every Q always talks about and she is lost.  She is looking for Butler High School and we are at Stalling Elementary.  Bullwinkle tries to give her directions but wow.. ummmm.. lets just say YHC will not be asking Bullwinkle for directions unless I’m looking to go the looooooong way.. at least now I know why he will not run a 5K.  If he gave the directions it would be a 15K instead.  We get Mary headed to Butler and finish up.

Naked Moleskin:

Thanks to the PAX for helping through this one.  It was a tough one for me since I literally went home after and drank some Nyquil went back to sleep for the day.  Solid work by all. YHC trialed a new technique for the Conviction AO with extra exercises for the PAX while holding for the 6 vs. ping ponging back to collect.  Since we stay on campus for this AO and YHC informed the PAX where our next stop point was, I felt like we were adhering to the Credo of leave no man behind but leave no man where you found him.  This approach appeared to work well and YHC will continue to incorporate it into the weinke.

Announcements:

• Woody (R) as of 3/15 (HAPPY Half Century BIRTHDAY!!) has Conviction Q 3/21
• Sparta AO on 3/29 will have Speed for Need Chairs for race training
• Eleventy billion March Madness brackets for F3. Check Twitter, Facebook, Slack, Twitter to pick which one you want to be part of.
• Union County Happy Hour at Hickory Tavern: 6400 Weddington Rd, Wesley Chapel, NC 28104

Respectfully,

YHC Gypsy