Perfect weather for a little South Charlotte workout this morning at the original South Charlotte Wednesday F3 boot camp… the same AO that YHC got his VQ back in early 2013. Tried to find the backblast from that one, but just not tech-savvy enough to navigate this ever changing website…so I brought a new plan for today. Once Puddin’ Pop strolled from his car to where the other 9 pax stood and waited to get rolling, YHC gave a brief, if not repetitive disclaimer and we were on our way…
Mosey to parking lot in front of Daycare Center for warm-up:
COP: SSHx25 / IWx20 / Squatsx20 / Merkinsx10 / MCsx10 / Peter Parkerx10 / Parker Peterx10
Run to Davie Park
Playground – Partner up.
Partner 1 does called exercise while partner 2 runs loop until exercise reps are complete: Pull-ups x 50 / Step-ups x100 / Derkins x150 / Dips x200
Grab Smokey’s hat and mosey up to soccer field for suicides: 10 merkin chaser each time we returned to the end line.
Mosey back to SCMS – stop for some Mary exercises along the way (Heels to Heaven, Freddie Mercury) – and finish with a sprint to the launch point.
Moleskinny:
Nice to return to this classic AO with a great group of guys this morning. Even though I got my VQ at this site, it hasn’t been on my regular rotation as of late and I realize how much I miss it. We reminisced about the early days when we rolled around in the dirt on the baseball field after a good rain or an adventurous hike through the dark woods to get to Davie Park instead of taking the roads. Almost every workout required a headlamp – and I can remember in my first Q doing COP on the football field with about 30 headlamps shining on me. We were young and dumb back then… ah, memories.
Lots of mumble chatter from the PAX as we got started with COP. One other person helped me with the count and Header pointed out that nobody was listening to me… things quieted down a bit once we got past Gummy least (SSH) and most (IW) favorite exercises and got on the ground for some merkins, mountain climbers and more. Then we took off down Hwy 51 toward Davie Park. The Q-drenaline got me going this morning…Stone Cold had to reel me in a bit on the way to the park. We all made it to the destination of the Davie Park playground as a group.
One of my first observations as we got started…these are not the same swingsets that were here 5-6 years ago. Maybe Jet Fuel, Geraldo, and Dolly could reach them, but they were not built for vertically challenged guys like me to do pull-ups on. A few of us wasted time looking for an reachable pull-up bar as our partners ran, and I had just enough time to get in a single pull-up to get Tulip and I started on our first set. Sorry Tulip… great job getting us back in the game!
Geraldo had an identity crisis this morning… not his identity, but for his partner. Initially he thought YHC was his partner instead of Header, then he called me Header, before finally getting clear who Header was and that he was his partner. Don’t worry Geraldo…we’re all getting older with you.
There was some interesting talk about Schmedium’s umbilical cord, a hernia operation, and an affinity for breast feeding. Just going to leave that right there.
Dollywood had to make an early exit. That guy is sneaky… one minute he’s there and the next minute…poof!
Pax should take note that I do know some Futbol terminology… correctly calling out the parts of the soccer pitch when describing which lines we will be sprinting to during the suicides.
Puddin’ left something unspeakable on the soccer field…which segued into Geraldo’s announcement during COT of the new F3 Beer – Puddin’s brown ale.
Great work by all out there this morning! Thanks Dollywood for the opportunity to come back and lead this group of fine men this morning. Thanks Puddin’ for taking us out in prayer.
Announcements:
F3 Beer Release at Stumptown Park
Prayers for UNCC students, faculty, and family following yesterdays shooting.
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