Uncle Si’s VQ – a Tour through the AO

Uncle Si’s VQ – a Tour through the AO

Posted on behalf of Uncle Si.

The Thang – Uncle Si did his a little different so read below and let the story speak for itself.

YHC was the first one at AO (which is the opposite of the norm) with his extra strength breath right strapped on and anxiety streaming through his blood stream. YHC heard it quoted once that “the night before you VQ you don’t sleep”, surprisingly the quote was correct. YHC woke up probably 5 times throughout the night and gave up around 4:30. YHC first action item of the morning was to set up a few cones for an exercise or two later that morning. After the cones got positioned, YHC headed back to the parking lot where Tiger Rag sat sitting in his car pondering which pair of shoes he should wear for the morning – his old faithfuls or his “pretty oranges ones”… Luckily he went with old faithfuls.
After the remaining PAX showed up YHC designated Fluties Flakes as his designated time keeper because the YHC wasn’t about to spend 10 dollars on a wally world watch that would be used once. At exactly 5:30am the morning routine kicked off. Here’s what we did:

Mosey around the parking lot, did a few side straddles, ran backwards, and then ended with short karaokes.
Continued our mosey down to the track where we ran one lap and then met in the middle of the field for morning circle of pain.
Being YHC’s first time @ Q’n, he kept the COP pretty simple and was surprisingly impressed by how well he could count out loud and not lose his breath.
After a few side straddle hops, merkins, imperial walkers the team hustled over to the baseball field where YHC set up a make-shift “Angels in the Outfield” routine. Where the entire group split into 3 smaller groups and then group 1 did crab walks to first base and then ran to the outfield did 10 burpies, group 2 bear crawled to second base then ran to the outfield fence and did 10 burpies, group 3 did lunge walks to third base and then ran to outfield fence and did 10 burpies. Each group rotated twice so each set of exercises was completed once by each group.
After angels in the outfield, the group mosied over to dirt field (patch) next to the parking lot after group 1 grabbed cinder blocks for the exercise. Now the title of this exercise was called “Suicidal Block Tosses”, however the idea of this exercise end immediately as soon as YHC demonstrated the exercise and shattered a cinder block on site in front of the crew. Laughs broke out in every directions, as they should have because it was flipping hilarious. For more information on how this exercise was supposed to turnout please see the visual illustration link above.
After the crew quietly all agreed to CANC the suicidal block tosses, YHC called an audible exercise which consisted of simple suicides and merkins/leg raises. This went over as well as a flock of dogs. We cut this shorter than YHC had liked.
After dropping the cinder blocks back off at their secret hideout, we headed around the outside of the nearest baseball field where we stopped short of the bleachers next to the giant storage container and did what YHC called the “Trinity of Awkwardness” – that is three groups exercises where one group did monkey humpers, the other group did horizontal hip raises, and the last group did handstand merkins against the storage container. This also failed in my opinion. Oh well, better luck next time.

After the TOA, we headed to the epicenter of the baseball fields where we split into three groups with group 1 doing derkins off the railing, group 2 doing leg raising stand-ups on the bleacher, and the last group running up the stairs looping around and running back. Each group rotated twice so each group did every exercise.
The second to last leg of the morning workout consisted of a 50 yard leap frog (exactly how it sounds and the look on Bulldogs face was priceless as he tried to make sense of both the exercise routine itself and the legitimacy of the YHC to ever lead another morning workout), where basically each group lined up and leap frogged each other till they got to the 50 yard line where they then sprinted to the end zone. Once there we turned around and did “Back to the Futures” my attempt to workout some muscles I don’t ever workout. Back to the futures consisted of 15 yard backward sprints, then 10 yard backward lunges, and repeated this cycle until we got to the other side of the field.
After leap frogs and back to the futures, we headed to Semi-gloss’ morning sanctuary (the building with the bathrooms) where we closed our morning routine with wall-sits and arms raises.
All-in-all YHC felt fairly good about his VQ, few hiccups hear and there but no total meltdowns.
Any other observations, please chime in on the comments.
Until next time,
Uncle Si

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