90’s Rock Party



90’s Rock Party

24 pax came out to partake in a 90’s rock party.  The music was good, but the rocks sucked.

This was my first time Q’ing Dromedary and only my third time at this AO.  Most of the workout was planned via googlemaps which made for some longer runs than I had expected.

 

WARM UP

Disclaimer given as a few pax rolled in on two wheels.  Mosey up the hill towards the school and circle up for:

  • 25 SSH (I decided to do an extra 5 just to piss off Big Ten – who I then realized wasn’t there).
  • 20 T Merkins
  • 12 Mountain Climbers
  • 12 Peter Parkers
  • 12 Parker Peters
  • 20 LBC’s
  • 10 Potato Pickers

THE THANG

Beat the Q to the rocks with burpees on the line.  I ended up beating 4 (by my count) so after getting a lifting rock we did 4 burpees on your own.  Quick audible by Goodfella to go to upper parking lot to spare us a car scramble.  Rock Exercises:

  • Military Press & Hold Ladder.  Military Press staring at 10 going down.  Hold staring and 1 and going up.  10, 9 hold for 1, 8 hold for 2, down to 1 hold for 9.  Got to the end and decided we need another 10 presses to end on.  Not going to lie….my arms felt that one.  Rocks down and move to the right. (Heard some mumble chatter about rock choice at this point.  Apparently some peoples lifting rock choice was the equivalent of a 5 pound pink hand weight (Cough Cough Zinfandel).
  • Squat & Row Ladder.  Squat for 10 Row 1, Squat 9, Row 2……….Squat 1, Row 10.
  • Curls.  10 Full Curls, 10 Bottom Half Curls, 10 Top Half Curls, and 10 Full Curls.
  • Tricep extensions.  With the different rocks this was was hard to do.  I wanted people to go until they burned out…but that would have taken forever with some of the 5 pound rocks out there.   Rocks up and Mosey to the front of the school (My apologies to the Clydesdales….it didn’t look that far on Google Maps)

Partner Up.  Partner 1 does inch worms (no push up) towards the Globe.  Partner 2 runs to the globe and back.  (Again, Q fail here as the globe was a lot farther than I had imagined).  I attempted to modify by placing the speaker on the sidewalk but had Q fail number 2 when I ran back to my partner which was out of range of the speaker.  Some very confused pax returned asking where the speaker was they were modifying to.  My bad.  After everyone got 2 rounds in, I audibled due to time and we mosey’ed past the globe for the next round of work.

Arrows were 5 jump squats.  Crosswalks or speedbumps were 10 Merkins.  Continue around the snake parking lot to middle school entrance.  Dancing bear attempted to skip some merkins.  I called him out (Bread Bowl would be proud).  Another pax asked if it was double (20) merkins at the crosswalk/speed bump combo.  Normally when I Q and get asked these questions I am a real dick and tell them to do the harder of the two….in this case I didn’t know the guy well so I was nice and told him only 10.  As usual, Dasher was leading the charge and I and several Pax were struggling to stay within ear shot.  I had everyone behind me modify to catch up then did a time check and realized we needed to speed up.  I had everyone meet at the middle school just in time to watch Dasher and Nutter Butter finish.  Nice work Gentleman.  Next time I Q I will make sure to bring a 50 pound ruck sack to handicap you.

Goodfella lead us to the buses were we played a quick game of would you rather (insert your favorite inappropriate f3 joke here).  Would you rather:

  • Do a burpee at each bus while your partner runs to the end and back alternating until the end or…..
  • Partner push to the end of the buses.

Surprisingly more people chose burpees.  I would have though it would be the other way around…..or perhaps this AO just pushes hard and doesn’t take the easy way out.  My partner shop dawg gagged on some diesel fumes, but other than that…no casualties.

Quick time check and it was time to go.  Another beat the Q with burpees on the line.  Rockwell attempted to channel foundation and hold me back but it was a weak attempt.  Perhaps he felt how sweaty my shirt was and wised up.  By my count I beat 7……7 burpees on your own.  I heard a lot (I mean a lot) of groans at this point….I wonder why….Oh yeah!!!! 3/4 the group just finished doing a load of burpees….whoops.

2 minutes left for marry.  Posse let us in dead cockroaches (I think he likes that exercise because it resembles his rivals Stadium – gamecocks).  Jinles lead us in protractor…..and we’re done.

MOLE SKIN

  • Good work today by all the pax.  Some people pushing their bodies to the limits today.
  • Good to see Dirty Bird out again.  I imagine with football cranking back up he will be out more for trash talking about Georgia.
  • Shop Dawg working hard and noticeably loosing some LB’s.  Good work.  Thanks for not puking on me.
  • Dancing Bear’s merkin form is improving each week.  He looks less like a wounded cat on the ground and more like a man doing push ups.
  • Good to meet a few of the Dromedary guys that I don’t see at my normal Western union AO’s.
  • I enjoy the Clown car rides back to Briarcrest after workouts.  Lot of trash talking going on in those cars.  Its how I found out Zinfandel’s choice of rock was more of a paper weight than lifting rock.
  • Shake N Bake killing it even with a 3 mile pre run in advance.  Dudes been killing the Pre Runs lately.  I guess he’s trying to get in shape for a late season bathing suit calendar or something.
  • Glad to see two Wolfpackers out there supporting me today in Chicken Little and EHarmoney.  Keep it up guys.
  • Some good comments on the music today.  Glad yall (or some of yall) enjoyed the music selection.  It was extremely awkward carrying that speaker around so I’m glad to hear it was worth it.  It was a tip of the cap to Goodfella who always seems to have a playlist going during his Q’s.  Good or bad, the music helps break up the monotony (or mumble chatter about how slow I am).
  • Thanks to Goodfella for allowing me to Q.  We did a Q trade off with him leading at The Floater recently.  Which speaking of…..If you are interested in leading a workout in downtown waxhaw on Thursdays….get with me or Money Ball.   And with that…..I’m out!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Soft Pretzel gave some of the new guys some insight into the Sandbox charity we have been supporting.  A reminder that they are still looking for Security help for their big prom event which is the Friday of Labor Day weekend.  Also a reminder that they still need volunteers to cut the yard in Indian Land, SC.
  • No hope challenge takers today, but there have been some good ones the last few weeks at the AO’s I attend.  If you need some one to talk to, but don’t want to talk to an entire group, reach out to one of your brothers here in F3.  We all go through things and guys tend to bottle emotions up (me included), but I do think it helps to talk things out sometimes.  I offer my ears to any that need them….and I will even buy the first round of beer.

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