I thought BLC was on Q?

I thought BLC was on Q?

When YHC got the text from Geraldo on Friday afternoon for a Q on Saturday morning, I figured I’ve been riding free at Rock Zero long enough to say no.  Also, fartsacking just to skip out on a Q isn’t an excuse.  So, I promised nothing creative and plenty of “filler” for our hour together.  (However, this would provide a good excuse to stop working for the day and start putting something together.)

After a weak disclaimer to this veteran group, we were off.

Mosey around the parking lot towards the baseball field and circle up.

Warm-up

• SSH x 20
• Hill Billies x 15
• Mountain Climbers x 15
• Merkins x 10

The Thang

Head to the baseball field to celebrate America’s pastime being back (for now).  Starting at Home Plate, perform exercises along the outfield fence, returning to home plate after each for more exercises:

• Left Field Foul Pole : 10 x Carolina Dry Docks
• Center Field : 10 x Big Boy Situps
• Left Field Foul Pole : 10 x Merkins
• Home Plate : 10 x Squats

We did 3 Rounds in total, and YHC could already tell it would be a battle breathing in the humidity this morning, and not just for the asthmatic Q.  Let’s do some Mary to wait on the 6 and allow me to adjust to breathing through a straw.  (Strike 1 – At this point, a more seasoned and smarter Q would have adjusted the planned workout, but YHC pressed forward with somewhat of a plan in mind.)

Mosey over to the rock pile by 51, grab a lifting rock, and head to the parking lot next door for some rock/island work.  Line up abreast with the first island with your rock (where it stays) for a pyramid of sorts:

• Island Exercise : Merkin
• Rock Exercise : Thrusters on the way up, Lateral Burpees on the way down

(Run to first island, do 1 Merkin, run back to the rock and do 1 Thruster.  Run to the second island, do 2 Merkin, run back to the rock and do 2 Thrusters.  Keep going to the last island, then, return to the 7th island and start working your way back down changing the rock exercise to Lateral Burpees).

After making sure Alf had a murky idea of the goal, since he was going to be out front, we were off.  After about the 3rd island, YHC noticed the mumble chatter was minimal, at best, and most looked like they smoke a couple packs a day as they’re trying to breath.  Time to “read the room” and call an audible.  Plank up after the 7th island on the way up for some Mary (Boone crunch, Dolly, etc.).  Strike 2 was calling any type of burpee at this point.  We substituted for Curls and Tricep Presses on the way down.

Return your rocks and find a spot for some Plank-O-Rams (check the box for my promised “filler”).  Slow mosey back to launch for some crab walk, lunge walks, and 10 hand release merkins until time.

In all, just over 3 miles on a muggy morning to start our weekends.

Moleskinny

• Cheese Curd started off the morning with some trash talk to the guys at Olympus about who would have more people show up and invited them to join the Boot Camp.  (They may have made the right call to stay in the parking lot.)  Also, called YHC out for ending at 7:59.  I think his watch is still on vacation, it was 8.
• Boererwors told me he was “phoning it in” due to some lumberjacking he did the previous day before he knew I was Q’ing.  Exactly what I wanted to hear…..
• Hoover blamed his cat and dog for missing his pre-run.  I wish I wasn’t focused on figuring out the workout at that point because I have some follow-up questions….
• Geraldo asked me multiple occasions if the exercises we did were part of my promised “filler”.  Surprise!  All of it was.
• Levi and OT put in some strong workouts without much mumble chatter….or I was just in my own head trying to figure out what we were going to do next.
• Floor Slapper looked disappointed when he pulled in and we hadn’t launched yet.
• Alf had the quote of the day saying “running in this humidity makes the pace feel at least 2 minutes faster than it is”.  If that’s how Alf felt, I was at least at 5 minutes.  Also, Alf ignored my audible and still did the burpees in the parking lot.  McGee called it correctly last week “Alf is hard”.