Despite some decent marketing, Ralph apparently fart-sacked and I found myself on Q for Bagpipe this morning. I’m likely to blame anyway as I failed to hit him up and confirm he’d actually be there. Beautiful Fall morning for a workout and 12 strong so let’s get this thing started.
The Thang
Quick disclosures and off we go. Mosey down past the gas station and circle up behind the Marriott for warmup.
Mosey across the parking lot to next set of walls for 15 jump ups and 25 dips OYO. Mosey towards Sara’s Y to another set of walls for 15 derkins and 15 incline merkins OYO. Mosey across the Y lot to railings on the ramp to the entrance. 15 overhand supine pullups on my count. 20 situps on my count. 15 underhand supine pullups on my count. 20 more situps on my count. Mosey across the parking lot and line up for 4-line suicides. Cooter2 for a 10 count and REPEATO! Mosey down to bottom of hill and parking lot by the fitness trails. 5 burpees OYO and then AYG to the top of the hill where the bridge starts. Plank up and wait for the six. Pax is getting gassed so we don’t stop and quickly mosey to the bottom of the hill and take our first right at the bottom and circle up in a large parking lot. Guess who makes an appearance? Yep Jack Webb! Some Pax clearly not familiar with this as I can see the look of confusion on their faces. I start with 1 merkin and 4 air presses and we proceed around the circle increasing by 1 merkin and 4 air presses each time until we reach 10 merkins and 40 air presses. It just happens that Rousey is last to go and leads us on a rousing final count to 40 Aribas!!! This one hurts. Never sounds like much but the reps add up and the shoulders burn. Mosey back to launch for 3 final minutes of Mary til 6:15.
Moleskine
Best time of year for F3 workouts in my opinion. Lots of great mumblechatter and always a great crew at Bagpipe. Great takeout by Soft Pretzel this morning as we always join forces with Swift.
Announcements
Blood Drive
Holiday Party 11/19 at OMB @ 6:00
1st day of Impact 5K training tomorrow at The Maul. Pre-run starting at 0510 with 1 mile and stretching.
A small but hard working group of men this morning. Humidity markedly up. Madison promised us a FNG but alas he was a no-show and assumed to be fartsacking. Funny thing is he apparently lives about a Mickelson 3 iron from the Bagpipe start point. Maybe next time. Disclaimer given and off we went.
THE THANG:
Mosey down to Ballantyne Medical Place, hang a right and up the hill. Cross over Brixham Hill into a nondescript parking lot with some decent lighting.
COP:
Mosey to the front of Sarah’s Y and spread out on the railings for:
Incredibly short mosey across the Y lot for 4 parking lines of suicides.
Mosey down to Ballantyne Corporate Place, past fitness trail and over to parking lot behind Snyder’s Lance building for a game of Blackjack. Blackjack consisted of 1 merkin at starting point, halfway across the lot for 20 squats. Back for 2 merkins, then 19 squats, 3 merkins and 18 squats… Well you get the idea. Not gonna lie – this one was a grinder in the heat and hurt a bit. Very little mumblechatter as we were in our own heads and grinding. Total of 210 squats and 210 merkins.
Time was nearing and we headed back to our start for one minute of flutters before 6:15.
Moleskin / COT:
5 from Bagpipe joined with 13 from Swift for COT. As graduation season is upon us and many of us have worked tirelessly alongside our children to get them to this proud moment, I chose to read a quote from a commencement speech in lieu of closing prayer. I’ll leave it with you as well. From Vernon Jordan in his 2002 speech at Howard University:
“You are where you are today because you stand on somebody’s shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It’s the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give.”