With Q school quickly approaching (This Saturday), I pose the question – What is the biggest Q fail?….easy. Over sleep and miss the workout entirely. And since I almost did that very thing today, I deserved some punishment…unfortunately for the pax, they endured it with me.
I woke up this morning, rolled over and saw 5:23 staring at me…..Oh no!!! Jumped out of bed, quickly dressed and out the door to the car only to realize…..I forgot my keys, wallet, and phone back in the bedroom. After sprinting up the stairs, and surely waking the entire house up, I was back in the car by 5:26 and on the road. Quick detour through Damascus’ neighborhood will get me there right on time….NOPE! Gates closed. 5:29. If I drive around I will be late. If I hop out and run I may just make it…..I run. Leaving all the equipment I had planned to use behind. I get within eye site of Brooklyn Pizza to see the last group of pax take off around the loop and a faint murmur of trash talking about yours truly. I meet the pax on the other side of the loop, apparently to some pax’s surprise and others disappointment.
WARM UP
Continue moseying to Target parking lot and circle up.
- 25 SSH – just kidding, lets make it 50. I had intended to do 25…but I felt good so I kept going. We got to 40 and we were too close to 50 to stop.
- Reach for the sky Merkins – 4 count, no 8 count, no….just count on your own. I asked the in shape pax to do 20 and the rest of us to do 15. Someone asked how you know your in shape….I will leave the answer off of this Back Blast….had to be there as it is not repeatable. Thank goodness for the 50 SSH or the mumble chatter would have been way worse (most pax were still breathing hard). Posse did have enough lung capacity left to remind pax of Q school coming up.
- 10 Peter Parkers
- 10 Potato Pickers
THE THANG
Mosey to rear corner of Target and alternate 5 Merkins and 5 jump squats at each tree. 50 LBC’s at the end and then bringing it back for alternating merkins and jump squats back to start. Halfway in….(in my best Joe Dirt voice) “dang that’s a lot of trees”…may need to modify. Get to the end and holler out the modification….no return trip. Apparently Mad Dog didn’t have his hearing aids turned up this morning as he started back.
Mosey to my car parked behind the gate to grab bricks and rope. Presses while we waited on equipment gathering. Run back to Brooklyn pizza. At this point I realized there were way more pax than I had planned for which severely inhibited my plans (I also left two keddle bells I had planned to use). That mixed with Shake N Bake’s constant “I Hate You”, “Did I tell you I hate you?” talk made for an interesting mosey.
Split into two teams. 1 team ran the loop while the other team performed brick exercises and rope work. 2 people from the bricks did rope work and we rotated rope work through out the rotations. Switch out when the runners returned.
- Presses & 2 people rotate out squat hold with rope waves (hands out front lifting ropes back and forth to create wave motions)
- Curls & 2 people on rope
- Tricep kickback or press & 2 people on rope
- Bent over fly (Reverse fly) & 2 people on rope
- Presses & 2 people on rope.
Once everyone had their turn on the rope we caught our breath with some ab work.
- 25 4 count LBC’s.
- 10 each side side crunches.
- 20 Heels to Heaven
Back to team work. Bricks & rope for one team and run the loop for the other.
- Presses & 2 people did low slow squat into a jump squat with a rope slam
- Curls & rope
- Tricep & Rope
- Bent over Row and Rope. By this time enough people had left early that we didn’t need a 5th round to get all the rope work in…..and it was 6:15. We done.
MOLESKIN
- My apologies to the pax for running late. From what I understand I gave Doughboy a little scare that he may have to run the workout. I set the time, but failed to set the alarm on my clock. My lateness mixed with the number of pax required several audibles this morning.
- Chicken Little called himself Dancing Bear during COT. Dancing Bear was nowhere near him which promps the question….why was Dancing Bear on Chicken Little’s mind? Hmmm…….
- My plan was to keep us moving so the Gazelles didn’t get upset, while also incorporating some gear. I believe based solely on that very limited goal, I achieved it.
- The Rope was a nice adder today. I’ve got a lot more planned for it at Chiseled. Big thanks to Dasher for that donation.
- Good work by the group today. I through some new stuff at you and you kept up.
- Legalized becoming a regular and his endurance is improving. Keep up the work.
- Briarcrest contingent was strong (as usual).
- Shake N Bake has been working his tail off and somehow talking deadwood and Rubbermaid into joining him. Good work on the pre run guys (I can only assume yall preran since I was late).
- Doughboy thanked me for showing up and preventing him from having to Q on the fly. Thank you Doughboy for allowing me to Q. Sorry to give you a scare this morning.
- Almost a swamp round 2 this morning with Bread Bowl, but unlike his brother…he found a portajon close enough to avert disaster.
- 19 pax at watchtower is impressive. I love that we as a group are growing and bringing in new blood. Lets keep it up as we begin expanding the number of workouts in our area. Ask your neighbor, your co worker, the baseball dad that sits near you at games and doesn’t judge that you cracked a cold one at 10:30 on a Saturday.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Q School this Saturday at Cuthbertson at 6:30. If you are looking to get better, learn how to Q for your first time, learn how to write a Back Blast, get credentialed to write a back blast, or just want to go give Money Ball a hard time…I suggest going. This is a once a 6 month event so don’t miss it. I would include a link to sign up but Posse’s link is to a used car site. I guess he is sick of the Prius.
- Chiseled is starting a week from tomorrow (Sept 26th) at Five Stones Church. This is a gear focused workout intended to add some muscle on the pax. We have a lot of skinny pax running around from boot camps…not its time to put some muscle on those frames. There will still be running at this site, but reduced as compared to a typical boot camp. Looking to to 1- 2 miles vs 2-3 miles at a typical workout. Banjo and myself are Site Q’s. If you have gear you would like to donate to the cause (either temporarily or permanently), please get with myself or Banjo. We can never have too many plates, dumb bells, or keddle bells. Sandbags, large stones, weight ropes, ect. are also welcomed.
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