“Crouch. Touch. Pause….. Engage”

“Crouch. Touch. Pause….. Engage”

After personally having preferred my fart-sack for the past 3 weeks and not posted, it gave Dollywood immense pleasure to remind me that I had signed up a while ago to Q Death Valley this week.  I even set my alarm for 5am the day before, simply to prove to myself that I could still get up at stupid o’clock. I failed the test (true story…long weekend).  But lo and behold, I will not let PAX down, so when that annoying progressively louder chirp started this morning I was up and at ‘em.

I’ll be honest and say I didn’t spend much time planning, as I wasn’t expecting many attendees, with most of you lunatics heading off to BRR for what sounds like a truly horrific weekend.  So I was pleasantly surprised to see 16 of us out there.

THE THANG

• Demo the 10 exercises that will be used
• Mosey down to the track to start the workout
• After one lap, realize it’s too dark to read my flashcards
• Mosey back up to the parking lot
• Random shuffle of the following:
  • Partner Dips (x10)
  • Partner Squats (x5)
  • Clap Merkins (x15)
  • Partner Verkins (x10)
  • Partner Carry (40yds)
  • Scrum Down (10-15sec)
  • PAX Choice
  • Knees to Chest (x20)
  • Russian Twist (x20)
  • Partner Leg Pushdown (x10)
• After 1^st set, hot-lap around parking lot, remove one exercise (or two)
• Repeato

MOLEY

Here’s what we learned:

• Smoky and Dollywood are uber-competitive
• Spackler knows how to quickly make frenemies during PAX choice
• Semi-Gloss has weak knees
• Bounce is stupidly strong (during the Verkins while he was supposed to just hold my ankles, he was actually lifting me up…I honestly could have done them on one finger he was doing all the work)
• Scrum down results in a sore neck for the rest of the workday
• Partner carry seems to be our Area 51 weakness…lots of modification required
• The track is dark at 5:30am

Thanks as always for showing up and reminding me that it’s ALWAYS well worth getting out of bed for F3.  Long live the Queen.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Something about a convergence but no-one knew what the frig was going on #leadership
• Something called PBR or similar this weekend…involves running, running, sweaty vans, and running