Totally selfish Q

Totally selfish Q

YHC spent March rolling through Flipper’s annual March Madness challenge and when the final week rolled around, the task was 300 merkins, 50 pull-ups, 50 starfish crunches and 5 minutes of plank each day. The goal was to work a good chunk of that into the Weinke in order to avoid a second workout later to complete it. (At this point, it is requisite to mention that the author of said Challenge had long since bailed on it this season, dropping before Kentucky even knew what a St. Peter’s Peacock was.)

WARM-UP

Mosey to the Synchrony parking lot for…

• Merkins
• Sprinkler Planks
• Squats
• Moroccan night clubs
  • With squats

THE THANG

• 8x Suicides to the parking lot lines for 5 T-merkins, return for 5 starfish crunches
• 4x (3x Bonnie Blairs then run to the parking lot lines for 5 merkins, backpedal to start)
• 3x raccoon walk followed by 5 merkins

Mosey back to near COT for 3x wall jumps across from COT, run to Sabor for 5 merkins

MOLESKINE

As noted, it was a selfish Q designed to hit a good chunk of the challenge. Unfortunately, as often happens when focused of self, stupidity happens. YHC miscounted the crunches and only hit 40 instead of 50.  We did, however, get half of the merkins and plenty of added pain thanks to the Bonnie Blairs.

Solid mumblechatter as YHC had to explain what a starfish crunch looked like and how raccoons walk in a straight line. There was also good discussion as to what to call the long lines in the parking lot. YHC called them vertical and was soon corrected and informed that none of the lines were vertically leaving the parking lot and pointing skyward. Perpendicular was the desired word, but someone suggested longitudinal and that won the day. Good use of a 5 syllable word, guys!

It was YHC’s VQ at Bagpipe after all these years and it is a strong air with plenty of options and a great crew of PAX, to boot.