Where’s Ralphie?

Where’s Ralphie?

5:14 struck and Loafer joked that he hoped the Q showed.  5:15 and there was no Ralphie so I jumped in and started the disclaimer hoping he would arrive on 2 wheels.  5:16 we took off.

WARM UP

Mosey around Pet Smart over to the Target parking lot.   Pax got a sneak peak at a dynamic stretching warm up I have planned for the Floater.  Glad I tested it on them as I was able to work out some kinks.  I was trying to figure out a way to keep heart rates up during the much needed stretching portion so this was my first try (since the Workout I debuted it at – Black Hawk didn’t count since there was only 2 of us).

Circle up in plank position.  Calf stretch right over left with a merkin circle.  Four rounds then we flap jacked for an additional four rounds.

Downward dog with a Carolina Dry Dock circle.  I think we did 5 rounds.  Lets go.

THE THANG

Mosey into the neighborhood up the hill to what I consider the road leading to the main road.   Alternating 10 Ranger Merkins and then 10 Wide Arm merkins until you reach the “main road”/ stop sign.  Swimmers, Smokey, and Sugar Daddy leading the way and doing a good job of circling for the 6.

Cross “main road” and alternate the following exercises at light poles:

• 10 Monkey Humpers & 10 Jump Squats
• 10 Sister Mary Catherine’s & 5 (each leg) Russian dead lifts.

Clarification question from Swimmers – so 20 total at each light.  Yes sir.

I was worried throwing this many exercises at the pax along with a different number on one of them would throw them into a tail spin.  But Kudos to the group as everyone jumped right it and nailed it.  I think it helped that Damascus continues to fart sack.  Speaking of Damascus….where in the hell is he???  Several pax have heard from him an excuse about coming out once he gets new shoes.  Are they still on a slow boat from China???

Made it almost to the end of the road before I decided that was enough legs.   Found a slightly up hill cul-de-sac for 7’s.  Burpees and Dry Docks.  Only got two rounds in before I realized we only had 20 minutes left and it will take us as long to get back as it did to get where we were.

Quick Mosey to another intersection before partnering up Gazelles and Clydesdales for Leap Frog.   P1 Reverse lunges backwards while P2 Jail Breaks to a mailbox.  P1 then “leap frogs” by sprinting to the next mailbox while P2 is reverse lunging backwards.   Continued back to the “main road”.

At each light post up to the stop sign stop for 10 dry docks.  Swimmers (I think) lead Mary.

Short Mosey to the hill leading out of the neighborhood back to Target.  Run backwards up the hill and jailbreak back down.  We completed twice with the Gazelles Squatting up top waiting on the 6.

Divided group into Gazelles and Clydesdales (sorry to the two guys that identify at Gazelles that I pulled in as Clydesdales… I needed even numbers).  Clydesdales got a 2 light pole head start.  If Gazelles catches them before COT – Clydesdales have 10 burpees.  If no Gazelle Catches a Clydesdale – Gazelles have burpees.  Apparently 2 light poles was not enough of a head start.  Clydesdales did burpees with Sugar and a few other (but not all) gazelles jumping in too.   30 seconds left when I finished my 10 so I had everyone continue burpees until time.

MOLE SKIN

• The Gazelles were able to take the reins off today and scamper….and scamper they did.
• Smokey was begging for Ralphie to show up mid workout so I guess I will take that as a compliment.  However….
• I didn’t hear any “Oh Yeah’s” out of Loafer today so I’m assuming it was a bad Q.  I judge my Asylum Q’s based on the number of Loafer “Oh Yeah’s” (again in that midwest accent in which apparently Loafer has never lived).
• Ex Lax putting in some serious effort today on the runs.   He’s getting faster with a 2021 goal in mind and I love seeing the progress.   Keep pushing.
• Schnitzel was his usual silent assassin self today pushing hard with zero complaints.
• By Pass gave me a dirty look when I pulled him into the Gazelles with me.  He was in front of me the entire day so yes it was unfair….and no, I don’t care.
• Per the Mash Channel, it appears Penalty Box put quite the beat down on Bunyan.
• Sledge still rehabbing the knee tore off on a walk on his own only to be seen again at COT.
• Great discussion afterwards at “Q Source” where we are covering the book “Extreme Ownership”.   This weeks discussion focused around the idea that there are no bad teams, only bad leaders with both a military example (Seal Team Hell Week Training) and a corporate example (A CTO that constantly pushed the blame on others).  Join us next week for Chapter 3 – Believe where Loafer will be leading us.  Sugar Daddy with a great example pulled from his peach basket days on the hardwood.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Blood drive is January 30th from 9:00 until 1:30.  Use the link below to sign up and post it across your social media channels (I’ve found in the past that neighborhood facebook pages tend to bring in the highest number of signups).  If you haven’t seen this posted in your neighborhood, take a minute to go post this up now please.
  • https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=f3
• During the prayer I asked pax to take some time today to reflect on Dr King’s message.  What can we do to be a light in the darkness.  How can we improve our community.