Last time I Q’d I barely slept due to nerves(it was my vq.) This time I barely slept because my 17 month old has decided sleep is no longer for her. Coffee and Yerba Mate are dear friends.
The Thang:
Run around the back of Matthews Elementary and stop by the Geraldo Tree for X20 SSH. A few weeks ago Geraldo was assisting Sensei through the workout and didn’t give him a heads up a big assed tree was approaching and Sensei had a small collision with the aforementioned timber, thus The Geraldo Tree.
We continued around the front of Matthews Elementary, onto Trade St. and hooked a right ending up behind First Baptist Church of Matthews to finish the COP.
X20 IW IC
X20 Windmill IC
X10 Merkins IC
Line up at the bottom of the parking lot for one round of suicides followed by ALL YOU GOT up the hill
Recover/quick stretch break
Lunge Walk to the top of the parking lot. That was a long lunge walk.
Bear Crawl back down to the bottom of the parking lot. Lamont CRUSHED the bear crawl.
Line up at the bottom of the hill for another round of suicides and AYG to the top.
Two rounds of Squarefish was next
X15 CDD in the middle
X10 Merkins in Corner 1
X10 LSS in Corner 2
X20 LBC in Corner 3
X20 Russian Twists in Corner 4
Mosey to FBC wall for the People’s Chair which included two rounds of “Pass Geraldo’s Sweaty Ruck.” Slim-Fast(at least I think it was) sang some kinda reggae song while we passed the ruck which would make sense if he had just returned from Jamaica but it was Mexico.
Finished up with Tree, Runners lunge and a short plank series.
Moleskin:
I felt my last Q wasn’t hard enough so I felt I needed to add some more difficult stuff to offset the yoga/stretching portion. Thank you gents for following along.
Freedom brought along FNG Chris. Chris is a former Army man who has had some ministry experience and is a big fan of Tennessee. I automatically assumed we’d call him Vanderbilt but Slim Fast pointed out military men receive strong names so Chris from this point forth will be known as Red Legs.
Thanks to Freedom for the prayer.
Announcements:
Tickets now on sale for the F3 Anniversary party next month and congrats to Nomad whose daughter signed to play soccer for Wingate next season which means she’ll stay local and it sure sounded like that made Nomad awfully happy.
Ten Gentleman of Suburbia rose before the sun visibly crested the earth for a morning of incredible excitement traversing downtown Matthews.
The Thang(I think that’s how this goes, I’ve never done this before.)
Run to Matthews UMC’s front yard since Tang doesn’t spend enough time at his place of employment, circle up.
x20 Side Straddle Hop
x20 Imperial Walkers
x20 Peter Parkers
x30 Mountain Climbers
x10 Slow Merkins
Run to Matthews Presbyterian where Slim-Fast asked for a factoid about the Presbyterian Church. I told him I thought it was founded by John Calvin. A quick interweb search tells me that’s wrong, but he did influence their founders greatly.) Anyway ..
x20 Low Slow Squats
x10 One Legged Low Slow Squats each leg(lots of balance required for these which few of us had. Smokey waited until we had three remaining before telling us it helps to focus on an object in the distance. Great tip for next time though.)
Slow Lunge Walk across the parking lot. Instead of focusing on speed, we made sure we touched the gound on every step. Seemed like a good idea at the start, less so by the time we reached the hedges lining Ames St.
Run to First Baptist Matthews, circle up in the parking lot for core work bonanza/a little bit of yoga
Plank-O-Rama
Iron Man
Air Plane
LBC-O-Rama consisted of 8 LBCs, 8 LBCs with legs at 90 degrees 8LBCs with legs at 90 with feet spread shoulder width apart and back down the ladder.
Rabbit stretches for the IT band followed by Runners Lunge for the Hips/Glutes
Check clock, we’re early. Planned a lap around the campus but punted and headed for the bathroom wall for a short round of the People’s Chair with 50 arm presses
I don’t wear one of those fancy watches but I think we logged about 1.3 miles between Denomination Stations.
Announcements:
EOThirst October 4th at the Whitewater Center. Some trail events along with speakers, etc. More info here.
Mud Run is October 24th. Signups are extended through next weekend. If you don’t have a team, it’s cool. Mermaid will help you find one. Geraldo says F3 has a huge team and takes buses. There was also something about a beer boat so if you like muddy dudes on a bus with beer you don’t wanna miss out on this one.
Happy is working on a new Union Co. AO. They’re trying out Antioch Church Rd. Elementary with a target date the second or third week of next month
Keep Sensei and his family in your prayers. His wife’s grandmother passed away Tuesday.
Drop Thrill having a health issue so please to the same for him. See you soon DT.
Sensei is running a half marathon Sunday which he will absolutely crush.
Insomniac closed it up for us. Thank you sir.
This was my first Q and I was pretty nervous so thanks to the PAX for going along with my offbeat plan. I look forward to the next episode which I promise will include a shorter BB.
Was great to have the regulars out there and to meet Happy who is indeed happy and Volcker who looks nothing like a federal reserve chairman.
Slim-Fast and Sensei logged a 3.1 mile pre-run at a 7:55 pace.