Over promise, under deliver

Over promise, under deliver

5 pax got their last 250 (plus an extra 50) swings in for 2020 at this week’s episode of Meathead.  It was a late start and an early finish, but always over promise and under-deliver.

The Thang & the moleskine

YHC, in an epic fit of brilliance/boredom at 1618 on a Tuesday, was deciding where to post on Wednesday.  With holiday hours in full swing for some AOs, YHC prodded Voodoo for an 0630 start.  Give the pax an opportunity to sleep in or double-down with an 0530 Anvil or 0515 SACS post and then pack on some muscle at Meathead.  The trade-off?  YHC had to Q it.  So, with that thought in mind and delivering an HC to a Meathead site Q / A51 nantan.  Bad decisions were made, a weinke was drafted, the alarm clock was set, and the rest is memorialized below for your bathroom reading.

YHC posted at SACS at 0515.  Hate to interrupt the Cheese Curd / Wild Turkey weekly lovefest but with Geraldo Q’ing at Anvil, it was YHC’s responsibility to make sure these two behaved themselves.  You can read Wild Turkey’s backblast for those gory details.  After SACS, YHC headed down 51 to Calvary passing two runners in the gloom, likely Voodoo and Flipper (speaking of a lovefest).  YHC pulled into the Calvary parking lot with 10 minutes to go, played the parking lot version of musical chairs and didn’t get out of the car until 0630.  YHC thinks we officially kicked off around 0632 where a weak disclaimer was delivered along with an explanation of the activities du-jour.

Warmup – simple stuff to limber up not trying to break a sweat here

15 rounds, 90 seconds each with a 5 second break between: 20 swings, 5 merkins, 5 squats, 5 OH presses, and 5 lawnmowers (per side).  This was quickly amended to alternating rounds of merkins/squats and OH presses/lawnmowers.  YHC had grand designs that just didn’t translate very well with timing.

60 seconds of carries with 15 seconds rest in between sets.  (Farmers carries, rack carries, and waiter’s carries both sides for all three)

60 second plank/hollow body hold/glute bridge for the finisher

Finished at 0712, where YHC suggested the pax do burpees for 3 minutes.  No one did a burpee so we put a bow on it and considered it a wrap.

The playlist today was a mix of 90’s and 2000’s grunge-ish rock.  YHC was snooping for the greatest hits of 2020 but after a long battle with Amazon Music there was just nothing there worth really listening too.  One notable exception is a new track from Bush.  If you’re into that genre of music, Flowers on a Grave is a pretty decent track I pulled from 2020.

Much like the year 2020, couldn’t find too much that was really worth re-hashing.

On that note, we all have bitched about 2020 and the suck-fest it’s been.  It’s easy to put on a brave face for a day or two, but as the days dragged to weeks, and weeks to months, and now looking down the barrel of a year of this “new normal” the cliched hashtag, #TheStruggleIsReal takes on a new meaning.

But looking back and taking stock YHC had the constant support of the pax across this region and other regions out there constantly pushing ourselves.  Trying to find new ways to better ourselves in the gloom.  YHC appreciates all the offline conversations, those few extra minutes in the parking lot after a workout where pax laugh off some of stress, the CSAUPs, and the encouragement through our community.  There are others who have faced far worse than YHC this year and for some 2021 won’t get much better, so YHC’s complaints pale in comparison.  At the end of the day, it’s mostly gratitude YHC feels because without F3 there’s no telling how much worse this year would have been for YHC.

Thank you, men, for all that you do and continue to do.

#SYITG