- When:06/25/2019
- QIC: Alf
- Pax: Alf, Billy Goat, Geraldo, Hammer, Hopper, Laronda, McGee, Puddin Pop, Semi-Gloss, Snowflake, Spackler
A Backblast on Tuesday
Relatively low number today at the ‘Nest. Maybe its the hot temps, or the family vacations. Or maybe its the Site Q’s threat that I would run and lift during a boot camp and who the heck wants to do that?
5:30 Disclaimer-ish. Then Mosey. Up to the new parking lots by the new fields, next to the newer fields they are fixin’ to build. Nobody says you don’t get your money’s worth at Latin.
COP – The Standards: Merkins, Squats, Mumble Chatter, Complaints about the .3 miles it took to get to COP.
Mosey up to pavilion. Little Hazes at the top and burpees down the hill. 3 Rounds. Followed up with the Triple D – Derkins, Dips and Donkey Kicks. 3x of course.
Over to the pile of rocks. 15 Thrusters run track with merkins at each corner. 2 stops for hand release and 2 stops for exploding merkins.
Wall sit for the six, then repeat.
Back to launch to say Hi to Gummy who was so fast at Fast Twitch he made it back 15 minutes early to towel himself off.
The Moleskine:
Puddin’ Pop puddin’ pooped himself after the first track lap. He was gracious and moved 10 feet upwind before he did it. He was eyeing Geraldo’s extra long socks and wishing he had a pair at that point.
Spackler was doubled over in a dry heave position when I rolled in. He’s a pro and popped right out to get out for the launch.
Semi-Gloss ran a lap by himself in the reverse direction because he needed “private time.” On the other hand, Hammer seemed to have mind reading abilities on initial mosey. Cut off a section of the hill and just met us back on my way around. Veteran move.
Hopper is turning the big 5-0 this week. Wish him a happy birthday, compliment his sweet new shoes he was wearing, and ask him to drop and do 50 burpees. He had to modify the DDD a bit. Apparently Donkey Kicks aren’t in the PT recommendations for shoulder re-hab. I am as shocked as you are.
Good to have LaRonda back out – even if he only joined us for the last 20 minutes. Missed the launch and took the private tour of Latin on his own. Come find the man soon – he leaves in 4 weeks to go to med school. T-Claps.
Shout out to Billy Goat who reached out this week and said “Cerberus Q is vacant, you need me to step in?” We do, thanks for leading and come out Friday to Cerberus and have Billy Goat chew you up like a tin can.
McGee was back out. He wore yellow. And all things are normal again.
Thanks to Snowflake for the takeout and for Hop(s/per) for the Q invite.
-Alf
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Hop(s/per), eh? I knew we would earn some Bradgelina or Bennifer type name eventually…..A few things:
1) Hammer didn’t take a shortcut to COP. There is an atmospheric and magnetic force which pulls Hammer to any outhouse/port-o-jon/mens room at any given AO. It’s involuntary and the only difference this morning was he didn’t have a code brown alarm when he was pulled toward it.
2) Are we going to talk ANY more about how Gummy was wrapped in a towel, half-naked and just watched us do mary exercises? Anyone else feel violated?
3) New shoes didn’t help me in pole position at all during running exercises today! I’m returning them.
Thanks for Qing Alf! Challenging as always!
It’s always an honor to be mentioned in a backblast for a workout I didn’t attend. Listen, Gypsy gave us route options. I picked the 5.5 mile option and stopped when I got back. That’s plenty for me in this humidity.
Since Fast Twitch never has a backblast anymore, I’ll offer some thoughts here:
Bless Prohibition and his headlamp. As we left campus and made a left on Providence, his light hit a spider web with what in my nightmares will be remembered as a giant tarantula right in the middle. Yes, Pro screamed like a 4-year-old girl, and yes, I jumped into oncoming traffic to avoid it, but we made it out alive. Joker claims he was scared by Pro, not the spider. Sure. The spider web was gone when we got back 45 minutes later, so somebody had a bad morning. I also ran hard into a tree felled by the storm this past weekend – shout out to the Raintree homeowners for just leaving it across the sidewalk. I’m not fast, but I was letting gravity do its thing going down the big Raintree Ln hill, so it was dicey. There was also a dead, stiff baby deer on the Providence Road Hill. That’s exactly what I wanted to see at the top of that hill. So yeah, I stood around with a towel and watched other guys workout for a few minutes after all of that.
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