Two Cents’ Worth

Two Cents’ Worth

Suggestions are ideas that can be taken or rejected; it’s up to the person who receives the suggestion.  They can be in the form of advice, opinions, recommendations, tips, proposals, or a myriad of delivery methods.  Suggestions frequently make their way into our morning workout routine.  Sometimes they are helpful, sometimes they are not – usually they are considered ignored by the workout Q, sometimes (but infrequently) for the betterment of the workout.

26 conceitedly assertive pax posted at F3 Kevlar on this fine January morn, many still basking in the afterglow of the man-ball of awesomeness that was fired from the Kevlar cannon a week ago to this day.

What I remember from the workout:

COP at gym parking lot near flagpole – couple of unmemorable things and 5 burpees – defined this location as STATION 1.

2nd COP at base of high school hill – couple more unmemorable things and 5 burpees – defined this location as STATION 2.

3rd COP on soccer practice field – at least one more unmemorable thing and (maybe) 5 burpees – defined this location as STATION 3.  Note the tires all lined up in a row with the cones.

Split in three groups (while planking, you know, to avoid standing around).  Split off to your respective stations.  Rotate through the stations until time is called.

• STATION 1 – 25 big boy setups under the flag pole
• STATION 2 – 3X hill repeats, with 10 merkins at the bottom each time
• STATION 3 – hairburner with the nasty tire to the cones and back (option to burpee broad jump)

If you found yourself amongst strangers midway through, you were either really fast or really slow – or maybe your teammates were.  No worries – you vs. you.  Keep on pushing.

Regroup everyone and head back to the practice field.

Suicides to the cones

• 10X merkins, then 20X
• 10X sister mary catherines, then 20X
• 10X something I forget, then 20X
• 10X diamonds, then 20X
• 10X burpees, then 20X – these were strictly for Hannibal and Steinbrinner (Happy Birthday)
• straight suicide run to both cones – repeat 3 times

Circle up for Mary

After a near mutiny, with 2:30 left on the clock, the Q acquiesced to the rabid calls for the Bangles and attempted an abbreviated Eternal Flame with a couple of discretionary fast-forwards.

DONE

Small burrowing insectivorous mammal with dark velvety fur, a long muzzle, and very small eyes skin

No idea how many to plan for this am, so I set out 9 tires figuring we would have 20 and it would be overkill. Surprised by the numbers, and we had just enough once we split into three groups.  52 combined last week between Joust/Kevlar and 47 this week is some sweet action.  I think the summer merger gave Joust some time to establish itself, while the Kevlar reopening re-attracted some past attenders.  Either way, we are glad to see this.

By the way, setting up all of this junk before the workout takes more time that I thought.  I have always taken the fabled Bulldog workouts for granted, but the little fella gets up at around 3am to set up shop.  He told me I had to make Kevlar different (i.e. don’t just run around and do merkins for 45 mins), so this was my attempt.

The absence of Bananas was noted, but not entirely unexpected.  This hurt deeply after I endured his horrible #brobuster double kettlebell workout at the Meathead and cordially invited him to join us in this mornings festivities.  His response was a somewhat lukewarm “I need to.”  It appears that he yielded not to his needs, but to his wants this morning.  Perhaps this was because I threw up in my mouth and accidentally spit it into his sock yesterday.

Lots of suggestions coming in left and right throughout the morning.  Some of these were audible, and some were just demonstrated by the pax by creating their own version of the workout.  Next week, I will bring a suggestion box that will be located on top of the trash can, barely balancing on the edge.  Some notable suggestions included:

“I thought this was supposed to be Fun Friday!  Can we just do the Bangles thing and some Mary?”

“I’m not going to do any side-straddle Hops, even though they are my namesake.  (this was an implied suggestion) and I think everyone should follow suite.

“Instead of the sit-up station, I’ll just lay here for a while and wiggle my legs a bit.”

“I brought Steinbrenner all the way here (it’s his Birthday, don’t you know) and told him that we wouldn’t do any burpees since you are leading.  There is no basis or historical precedent for this, but you should consider it strongly.”

“You shouldn’t have started that next suicide run, because there is a man still struggling to finish the last one and he looks like he may die”   (note,  suggestion was retracted once I pointed out that it was only Brown)

“I can’t hear you because you sound like you have a mouth full of half-chewed Raisinets – please speak more clearly and/or hire a translator”

“We should really do the Bangles now because it give me an opportunity to stop exercising and just lay there for the rest of our time together”

Announcements:

• Compass on Fridays at 6:30 – Arbo Chick Fil a
• New SOB workout launching at Blakeney 0700 – SOBs will finally see each other in daylight (not sure if this is a good thing or not)
• Outland/Commitment converging at Commitment 0630
• Ascent/Olympus converging for Kettlebell-fest.  The Rock may also be involved in this, but I didn’t listen very closely.  Bring your wallet.
• Alf promising a death-workout at Day Zero tomorrow – at least 13 miles and 800 burpees.

That’s all for now.  Stone Cold on Q next week, so hope to see you fine gentlemen back out.