- When:7/9/16
- QIC: Purple Haze
- The PAX: Hairball, Buttermaker, Prohibition, Red Rocks, Alf, Fault Line, Semi-Gloss, The Mouth, The Swede, Purple Haze
Hey Jeff…
10 men met at McAlpine Elem for some hard work #F3DayZero #HighIntensity
The Thang
Mosey from campus with a right on Carswell, left on Bevington then right on Radner down to the cul-de-sac at the entrance to the greenway. Circle up.
- IWs x 20 IC
- MCs x 20 IC
- Low Slow Squat x 20 IC
- Merkins x 15 IC
From the Radner cul-de-sac, run up & turn right onto Willow Run then left onto Stoney Hill, stopping at the base of South Point Drive. Time for the beast on the South Point hill.
- Round 1 – Jump squats
- Round 2 – LBCs
- Round 3 – Merkins
- Round 4 – Squats
- Round 5 – Flutters
- Round 6 – Burpees
After a little bit of Mary, rup Stoney Hill, left on Bevington then right onto Carswell. We did some AYGs on the Stoney Hill and Carswell hills on our way back to campus.
Pick a partner. Grab a lifting rock. One partner do AMRAP of called exercise with rock while other partner did ~25 yard backwards bear crawl. Flapjack. Exercises were shoulder presses, curls & triceps. Next was same deal but with ~100 yard out & back sprints/moseys…exercises were chest presses, curls & good mornings.
Return rocks and mosey up to parking lot for people’s chair and air presses x 50 IC to finish us off.
After Gloss’ send-off, we embarked on our various journeys.
Moleskine
Day Zero is intimidating. #HighIntensity men are intimidating. A shirt-less Gloss is intimidating. A combination of all three ran off two FIA ladies from the McAlpine track before we even started (even though they did stop to ask Butter where he got his pink shoes). Then our mere presence in the Radner cul-de-sac greenway entrance made two ladies turn around and go the other way…it was funny watching their decision making process while we did our set of low slow squats. Monkey humpers would have wrecked them.
The beast on the South Point Drive hill was a horrible idea in hindsight…pretty much did the Q in. Turns out The Swede lives on the street…good thing he posted or we would’ve been ringing his doorbell. While on the hill, we ran into one of his neighbors. Ignored us all, except for a sultry “Heeyyyy Jeff.” Heard a lot of talk about breaking the rules and not ending the beast with burpees…but I’m a traditionalist.
Back at the school, several complaints about three sets of backwards bear crawls. Your shoulders will thank me later. Think Gloss skipped most of the rock lifting…stayed hunched over in the dry-heave position, mumbling about his Spackler-esque Friday night of One Bourbon, One Scotch & One Beer (x 7). He left cleansed of all shame.
Alf, Fault Line, Red Rocks & Hairball worked hard and led the way throughout. Pro was mediocre, as usual.
Announcments
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Day Zero (Butter) agreed to sponsor a hole.
Purple Haze author
Great Q as always Haze. I never made it to the pool to validate the backward bear crawls real shoulder value. But I was sore all over doing yard work later in the day…so thanks for that! On an unrelated note, during 2nd F at Starbucks, a couple women at a table next to us got up and moved away 6 feet dragging the table with them…I guess they didn’t like all our sweaty bodies 10 inches from their coffees and scones.
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