A bears gag reflex

A bears gag reflex

Showing up almost late for your VQ does not instill confidence in your PAX – as I could see it in their eyes as I wheeled into the parking lot. Little did they know, I was saving my energy for the pain I was about to bring! That and the fact that my 2.0 bailed on me at the last minute, causing confusion and delay (a little ‘Thomas the Train’ reference there). After a very shortened stretching session (for the Q), the PAX was raring to go – as they could smell blood in the water with the new fish leading things. After a relaxed HairBand mile around the parking lot, we circled up for formalities. My disclaimer of not being a professional, was met with shouts of ‘refund’, but I stayed the course.
Staying true to form, we jumped into some of our mainstays

COP
SSH IC x 35
IW IC x 30
LSS IC x 30

Needing a change of scenery we mosey to the side of school for a little station work:
OYO:
20 Step-ups (10 per/foot)
15 dips
10 merkins
Rinse/repeat x 3
Once completed plank up

Another change of scenery as we mosey back to front of the school, to the HILL:
Pair up
P1 performs LBCs while P2 runs up hill & performs 15 CDDs (1st round)
Flapjack
P1 performs Dollie’s while P2 runs up hill & performs 10 Burpees (2nd round)
Flapjack
P1 performs Freddie Mercuries while P2 runs up hill & performs 20 CDDs (3rd round)
Flapjack
Plank up while waiting for everyone to finish

After a quick 10 count, time to move again.
We line-up single-file for a Lunge-walk to the front of school with a bear-crawl Indian-run to make it a little more interesting (or painful depending on your view of things). Speaking of interesting, the mention of bear prompted CT to share a story of a man fighting off a grizzly bear by sticking his arm down the bear’s throat and choking it. That provided a good diversion from the pain, especially those bear-crawling across the parking lot with no gloves (looking at you LaMont!).

Now at the front of the school, time to grab a wall:
The People’s Chair – air presses x40
TPC – air presses x60
TPC – air presses x80

We return to the original circle area for a few more exercises:
Jack Webbs x 6 (in cadence) – which were deemed Jane Webbs! Thanks HB!
LBCs x 25 (on your own)
Freddie Mercuries IC x25
Dollie’s IC x21

At this point, my queue was completed, but our time wasn’t – as I had dished out all the pain I could! Thanks PAX for letting me lead!

Handing off to Glass Joe to take us through the last 10 minutes!

GJ: I’m still in awe of CTs story (will give it in full below) so I turned to what I know best, it’s time to run.

Mosey to the side of the parking lot to the parking lines: Run forward 2 lines, Back 1 line and continue down the entire length of the parking lot. During this run, Shepherd mentioned burpees. Context forgotten why but nevertheless…

Burpees OYO x 10

Shepherd appeased so let’s do sprints
Sprint from Island to Island AYG x 2. Chatter about having nothing remaining but the PAX ran hard.

Hairband Mile Indian Run at a quicker than normal pace

Circle up for 3 MOM:
Long-Drawn out Protractor
Burpees until CT gets to 10 burpees

Done!

COT
Thanks for letting me take you guys out.

Moleskine
GJ Commentary:
So, let’s get right to it: Do Bears have a gag reflex? CT basically said he had read a story the other day about some guy who was hunting and comes up on a Grizzly bear and gets attacked. While being attacked, he remembers his grandma telling him that large animals have a gag reflex. So, instead of kicking the bear in the jimmy, he stuffs his arm down the bears throat and sure enough, the bear lets him go and runs off. Due to my fear of what googling anything with ‘Gag Reflex’ in it will bring back, I’m going to go with CTs story and just forever believe Bears have a gag reflex.

I have no idea why burpees are such a thing this week but Shepherd apparently didn’t get enough on Tuesday so he asked for some more. Didn’t want to disappoint him but it caused the Hairband exasperated question “Who keeps asking for burpees?” Shepherd does and CT does and I poked the bear earlier in the week and they do have gag reflexes you know so more burpees it is.

Some angry #mumblechatter when I suggested we keep running even after 6:15. Shepherd reminded the crowd that it is named Overdrive after all. TLS threatened to slash my tires for the 2nd time in three weeks so 6:15 it was.

Great work by The Count for his Virgin Q. It was active and the Native American Lunge Walk Bear Crawl led to the greatest story of Overdrive’s history so far. That’s a solid win.

It was awesome to see Hairband pushing the running harder today on those sprints. Good to see that knee getting stronger and stronger.

Great work by site FNG Lamont. He showed up expecting Happy and ended up with a few laughs and lots of pain. Great job pushing through it and hope to see you back.

Who is that blur on those sprints? Oh, that’s just TLS. Brotha has got the sprints mastered.

Shepherd was on it today. Asking for more burpees and more running. That’s how a #respect leads by example. Awesome work.

And CT, thank you. Just thank you!

Appreciate all the hard work and laughs this morning.