- When:02/28/2019
- QIC: Revlon
- Pax: Clover, Gummy, Harley, HIPAA, Jetfuel, Leprechaun, Lewinsky, Marge, Nancy Drew, Puddin Pop, Queen, Revlon, Scratch & Win
Spring Training
Spring (fog) was in the air this morning as 13 PAX, including 1 FNG, came ready to get in shape for the season. YHC was honored to lead and gave a quick disclaimer which included a waiver reference for our FNG. The mosey began and took us around the front of the school over to the bus parking lot.
The Thang
Circle up in the bus parking lot.
- Side Straddle Hop x 15
- Imperial Walker x 15
- Low Slow Squats x 13
Mosey to center of 4 baseball fields
SEVEN OF DIAMONDS
- 7 burpees at exterior wall of center field for each of the 4 fields
- Plank back at the middle and wait for the 6 and my call
- 14 4-count flutters at exterior wall of center field for each of the 4 fields
- Plank back at the middle and wait for the 6 and next call
- 21 merkins at exterior wall of center field for each of the 4 fields
- Plank back at the middle and wait for the 6 and my call
- 28 squat jumps at exterior wall of center field for each of the 4 fields
- Plank back at the middle and wait for the 6 and my call
- 21 merkins at exterior wall of center field for 2 fields (audible due to time)
- Plank back at the middle and wait for the 6 and my call
- 14 4-count flutters at exterior wall of center field for 1st field (audible due to time)
- 7 burpees at 2nd field (audible due to time)
Mosey to cafeteria wall of school for a few minutes of wall sits
Mosey back to starting point for Mary
- LBC x 16
- Freddie Mercury
- Heels to Heaven per Jet Fuel
- American Hammer per Leprechaun
- Dying Cockroach per Scratch & Win
Recover and count em off.
Moleskin
Clover, after pointing out multiple times that the mud hole at field 1 looked like home plate, promptly slid his face right into it.
HIPAA and Puddin made some comment at field 2 of the squat jumps that they liked workouts that were more entertaining than tough. I took that as a compliment for a second before realizing it probably wasn’t. Welp.
Good to see the Wessex Square clown car in action with Lewinsky, Scratch & Win, and Leprechaun. Though I’m not sure how Lewinsky convinced them to show up early for a mile run prior to the workout, and then leave early forcing them to have an extra run back in. Heck of a sales pitch.
I heard a couple mentions about Dabo claiming Trevor Lawrence would have to earn the starting spot this year. Equally, FNG Davis had to earn his nickname today. We tossed around some ideas based on the name Davis, the Citadel background, etc., but because of some PI experience in his background, the PAX landed on Nancy Drew. Welcome aboard, Nancy Drew. Glad to have you!
Announcements
- Beer Mile is coming up…something about beer and running, which sounds great and terrible. Details should be on Slack. Gummy can help as well
- Mission Uprising is coming up March 14-17. This is a powerful weekend that I got to experience a few years ago. Go to missionuprising.com or check with Scratch & Win for additional details.
- Be praying for one of our brothers, Red Rocks, who is continuing to recover from a stroke he suffered a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks to Gummy for the strong takeout.
Thanks to Marge and Queen for the opportunity to lead #F3Hydra today as well. Always an honor.
Revlon author
Well done Revlon…the weinke allowed for a good sweat/dirty as well as good fellowship. Let me (for the record) clear up something to those PAX that read every backblast. On behalf of myself and HIPPA, we were saying that outstanding workouts are those that test BOTH being tough AND entertaining. So much that HIPPA might come up with a scale for toughness and entertainment. Had to get that in there before dudes started asking us to watch stand up comedy re-runs at 5:30am rather than show up for workouts. Thanks
To be fair, I didn’t denigrate (Puddin that means talk bad about) the difficulty of the workout. Merely said in addition to the Herman-Willink Scale we might need a scale of Entertainment Value, and on which scale this workout would rate highly.
We talked about that Entertainment Value (EV) scale for a while and concluded that Richard Pryor is probably the “10” on the scale. Eddie Murphy was slotted there for a moment before getting dethroned. Leprechaun suggested Kevin Hart (I think) who was quickly ranked as a 3 or 4 max, behind the entire cast of Caddyshack. This bears further research and analysis.
I’d give the workout a Duke Basketball or a Michael Scott Survivorman on the Herman-Willink Scale, BUUUUUUT like a Chevy Chase on the EV Scale. We still did about 2.7 miles, which is strong. AND got dirty. So I think I settle on Survivorman.
Revlon thank you for your leadership and creativity! I enjoy it when people try new things out there.
Marge coming off of the flu bug and still took Site Q-level leadership on the impromptu counting along the outfield fence. Queen the silent killer as usual.
Heard a Vince Howard (QB of East Dillon) reference out there but can’t recall what it related to.
Quite a lot of futbol/football talk out there. Lots of mentions of “nil”. Must have been an exciting game to watch. DYK that Elton John is a big supporter of Wofford College? I’m 99% sure that is at least 25% accurate.
I knew we were in for a high mumblechatter workout when we were throwing around quotes from Airplane! before we got started. “A hospital? What is it? It’s a big building with patients, but that’s not important right now.” It was a sneaky 2.6 miles this morning. Solid. Hat tip to FNG Nancy Drew for hanging in – Harley doesn’t ever talk during a workout, so the rest of us had to pick up the slack.
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