Q: Who did Paul Bear Bryant defeat in his last game as head coach of Alabama in the 1982 Liberty Bowl?
What does that have to do with this morning’s events at Falcon Nest (née Hawks Nest, née Falcon Crest)? You had to show to know, but because you’re wasting unrecoverable time in order to read this…I’ll tell you.
YHC threw out some 1980’s Big Ten Football trivia (more specifically 1983-84). What do Jim Everett, Jim Harbaugh, Chuck Long, Jack Trudeau and Mike Tomczak have in common?
They were all Big 10 quarterbacks (Purdue, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio State) in 1983…though Harbaugh didn’t start until 1984.
Some fact and fiction about these illustrious pigskin slingers from the heartland (actually Trudeau grew up in California and Everett in Albuquerque….but I digress as usual).
Fiction: Jack Trudeau is related to famous cartoonist Garry Trudeau of Doonesbury fame. Siri & Clover were wrong. Garry is married to Jane Pauley, however.
Fact: Jim Everett remains the only quarterback to defeat Michigan, Ohio State and Notre Dame in the same season.
Fiction: Jim Harbaugh owns non-pleated khakis.
Fact: Michigan leads all Big 10 schools with 9 football national championships, Ohio State has 8, Minnesota (yes, Minnesota) has 6 and Illinois has 5 (2 more than Clemson).
Fiction: Alabama leads the nation in football national championships with 16.
Fact: Yale leads the nation in football national championships with 18.
So we did some exercises, and some of the pax, of course, didn’t do many of the called exercises. Spackler, STOP TRAFFIC, did 5 burpees, which were the first he’s done in 4+ years #augustmiracle
Runstopper took his shirt off before the workout. One of the pax asked YHC after teaming with the Stopper for the rock work if I was sufficiently shamed by my shirtless partner and the fact I couldn’t do tricep extensions with the rock Stopper chose. I was, indeed.
Emoji begged for LBC’s, so YHC obliged at 6:12am.
Jet Fuel knows his college football. He asked the question at the top of this backblast. The Answer: Bear Bryant defeated the Fighting Illini of Illinois by a score of 21-15 in the 1982 Liberty Bowl. Bryant died less than 4 weeks later.
T-claps and praise God for Veg-O-Matic’s newest 2.0.
Floor Slapper was on time, and was also getting legal advice from Brokovich during the 6 minutes of Mary. He returned the favor of free expert advice by giving Erin a “turn your head & cough” test prior to Brokovich’s doughnut run for the family.
Brokovich is also a geographical genius. The capital city of Bulgaria is Sofia, and he answered it in a “Rainman-like” 0.87 seconds. Impressive…and also a bit frightening.
Motorboat suggest monkey humper’s in front of the windows at the newly opened gym next to the Lodge. We did a drive-by but no humpers. Next week, perhaps.
T-claps to Slingshot & Bootlegger for running in. Huddle House did not join the OP posse this morning.
War Daddy Snuka put in the work as usual and his olfactory toughness was on display during 6 MoM as the only pax within 15 feet of the rotting refuse in the dumpster.
Grits took us out with prayer after COT; he also was doing a myriad of his own exercises throughout the workout. #trifusenikwannabe
Clemson alums & devotees Deep Dish and Marge kept mumbling something to the effect that they thought the only team in the Big Ten was Ohio State. #erroneous
According to Puddin’ Pop, we went a “legit” 1.65 miles. You’re welcome, boot campers.
We did work in some burpees, some Makthar D’Jaiye’s (did you catch when we did them?), and his brother Walthar. No CCV’s though I did give Erin a demo after the workout. We’ll do them at Hydra on 8/25.
Have a great week, fellas. Go encourage someone as you’ll likely be the only person who does so today for that person.
“encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone” – Saul of Tarsus in a letter to the pax in Thessalonica (modern day Thessaloniki, Greece)
12PAX and 16 2.0s (at least to start), left the city life behind and went west, found a little rain, no cell service, and perhaps one serial killer.
THE THANG:
Roll in on Friday, set up tents, communal area, figure out who is camping where, and get a fire started. The rain moved thru about 1pm and soaked everything for several hours. It did not dissuade the PAX from pushing forward (we had already paid for the campsites and the food) and by late afternoon the rain subsided, most PAX arrived, and the 2.0s were already running around the campsite.
Little did we know that on the way to God’s Country, a wrong turn was taken at a Lowe’s and a new name for one of the PAX was being born.
Upon his arrival, Chuck Wagon FKA Zinfandel, unloaded the food, then promptly informed us that one of his 2.0s did not fare too well and got sick on the ride up. Nonetheless, the promise of good times and sugar was the antidote for a quick recovery. So as the night wore on, with beer and Doritos consumed with reckless abandon, all seemed well…..
As daylight broke, Chastian’s truck was mysteriously parked in Chuck Wagon’s parking space, CW’s tent was gone, his minivan was parked in a different spot, and one stained covered sleeping mat was laying on the ground. As I walked closer to investigate, the minivan started and off it went, into the fog, never to be seen again. Upon closer examination of the crime scene, the stain on the sleeping mat was Dorito’s red, and one could easy surmise that we were down 1 PAX and three 2.0s for the remainder of the trip.
Chastain, as our Nantan, stepped up and took over the food duties. However, he quickly discovered, much to our chagrin, that Chuck Wagon stole the mac and cheese that was planned for dinner. We had 2 options, goto the FoodLion that was 10 minutes away and buy some, or gut it out. We chose the latter.
Saturday morning it was hiking trails for some while others decided to go kayaking. As the hikers were able to witness the clear skies roll out and the rain clouds roll in from the top, the kayakers were able to experience the torrential downpour in the middle of a lake. After hiking, it was lunch at Woodland’s BBQ for most and the coin operated laundry in Boone for the remainder.
After lunch it was more hiking, but this time to the swimming hole and then rock climbing up a waterfall.
With night time settling in, time for hot dogs, brats, and beans, followed by s’mores.
As the sun woke up Sunday morning, time to get rid of all the food, pack up, and go back to civilization.
All children were returned to their Dads without any broken bones.
MOLESKIN
Official rename: Zinfandel to Chuck Wagon, if you can’t figure out the reason, read this backblast again.
Surge made friends with our serial killer, camping neighbor, who we counted as a FNG and gave him the name Dahmer or Manson. We left him a gift of blueberry muffins as a thank you for not cutting our heads off during the night.
I have figured out why they call him Chatterbox, the guy would not stop talking the entire time.
Happy Meal is our professional fire starter and wood finder but he cannot be left in charge of the six.
We are renaming OneNiner’s son as well, it is now Romeo.
Thank goodness for Marta who brought the camping gear that CW was tasked to bring, assign, yet somehow the stuff did not make it.
We discovered that Mad Dog enjoys a good bag of chips a hoy (and so do raccoons).
We all have chair envy over Mad Dogs rocking camper chair, but he will spend most of the week doing an internet search on my Toto.
Sad Puppy provided eye candy for a young hikers (and her mom) at the top of rough ridge.
Hazmat’s wife is going to kill him when she finds out he let Uncle PJ sugar up the kids.
Thank you all for allowing me to organize this chaos and being foolish enough to join me in the adventure.
YHC arrived to find FNG Kyle waiting. As other PAX arrived YHC gave the standard disclaimer and we were bolted faster than airport Bojangles through intestines. Oh, wait, is that Mic Check coming in hot? We circled back for him and then it was game on for real this time.
Moseyed to 131 for warm up. SSH, IW, low arm circles, and merkins.
Moseyed to the lot behind the nail salon, stopping on the way for some Mary at the bank. Once at the lot, partner up, each partnership grabbed a rock. One partner ran, one did reps. Each partnership did 50 combined reps of thruster, burpee over rock, curls, and rock merkins (one hand on rock, other on ground, switching sides each rep).
Moseyed back to the bank for some mary and the first in a humorous series of Loogie expressing his deep appreciation for all the running in today’s programming.
Moseyed back to Blakeney for a series of 10 merkins alternating with 10 LBC at each storefront until reaching Target.
Next, a short jog over to the stairwells behind the fountain. Hey, those guys look familiar – Kirby, C3PO, and T1000 found us after running around the AO for the preceding 40 minutes. We did a 10 minute AMRAP of 10 supine pull ups at the bottom, 10 hand release burpees at the top of the stairs, then 10 wall climbs (balls 2 wall) at the bottom.
Finally back to base for a quick round of Killer B’s (broad jump, burpees, bear crawl), then Mary to time.
FNG Kyle, now named Coxswain, smiled through the beatdown and said he will be back next week. Happy birthday Franky! Kelly has been coming out regularly and doing great – keep it up man. As usual the veterans killed it. Honestly, I was breathing pretty hard trying to keep it challenging for everyone today. Really great 2nd F during the workout and after.
Kirby mentioned to the group that the SOB 3rd F lead (Olaf) is a tremendous resource for those of us looking for guidance in this area. Olaf followed that with a wonderful take out about risk and the importance of being vulnerable.
If you haven’t Q’d at da Vinci recently we’d be grateful if you’d reach out to YHC to get on the schedule.
12 men stepped up to the plate to kick ass at the Brave.
Pretty simple layout.
Run a bit, Warm up, then run to Endhaven Elementary with some exercises on the way.
Once we are at Endhaven we went to the playground. Do 10 pull-ups.
Then go to the other end of the school parking lot and do 20 jump squats.
Run all the way to the bottom of Rougemont St. It is about .4 miles. At the bottom, do 15 Burpees.
Head back up to the to the playground for pull ups and repeat that circuit.
Moleskin:
The great Haggis returned today and killed it. He got three full laps and caught us on the way home.
Everyone seemed to love the format today. Lots of burpees, running and humidity. Everyone pushed hard today. Frehley’s pushed a little too hard and had a code brown and left his 5th towel out in the wild today. Mic Check and Midriff weren’t far behind Haggis, but Mic Check did almost spill Merlot as he sprinted towards the finish. Seems he mis-calculated the distance. Teddy and Wingy also pushed hard the entire time. Teddy has his patented “smoked Teddy” face on for most of the day. Franky showed up to the Brave for the second hard week in a row. Thank you Olaf for leading some of the Mary throughout. Picasso came up with a big push at the end and passed Mic Check as he started his Merlot heaving. Of course War Eagle had the Phone on hand in case any of us passed out, thank you sir for looking out for us, and likely yourself. Kirby pushed the wholesome and kept running until the end.
Thanks for letting me lead another “old School” Brave.
SYITG Fire Hazard
Three ways of the warrior:
Workout adapted from Darebee’s 3-minute Warrior WOD: https://darebee.com/pdf/workouts/3minute-warrior-workout.pdf
HIIT Workout
Moleskine
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Amazing turn out for the Brave today. A revival! Get those men on Q ASAP.
The Thang:
Run together up Community House and turn in for a brief warm up: LSS x 10, MC x 15, stretching. Continue up CH and stop for Peter Parkers + circle back for 6.
Make a right and arrive at Enhaven Elementary. Groups of 5 do three rounds of: Pull Ups (AYG – pull up group acts as time), Dips AYG w/ step ups mixed in, and Big Boi sit ups AYG (not American Hammers which we all now know are ineffective thanks to Midriff.)
Next: Maximize our mileage without leaving anyone for dead. Out and back on Endhaven with a half mile turnaround for the fastest guys – Fire Hazard, Midriff, Sweetwater, I’m probably missing someone.
Run to parking deck next to the Hampton Inn. Run backwards up each ramp followed by 20 lunges each time, 3 ramps total. Finish with CDDs at the top.
Run back to launch with circle backs + Olaf and I did a bunch of exercises by ourselves at one point.
Moleskin: Great job by the men getting out of their comfort zone to post at this workout. That is what it’s all about. Thanks Olaf for a tremendous take out.
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Anyone who did IPC last year remembers the thrill of Murder Bunnies. Basically reverse hiking a cinder block from between your legs to out in front of you, jumping forward while hunched over, and repeating many times to advance across the field or parking lot. We did that today! Why? Because it is a High Intensity exercise and NOE is a High Intensity Workout.
The Thang:
9 men grabbed their cinder blocks and went to the next parking lot for space. Warm Up = 15 SSH, 15 MC and 15 LSS all IC.
Thang 1: 20 overhead press, murder bunny across, 20 overhead press, rest 30 seconds. 20 curls, MB back, 20 curls, rest. 5 “blockees”, MB, 5 blockees, rest. 20 squats, MB, 20 squats, rest.
Thang 2: Use the HIIT cadence Wild Turkey has taught us and do 3 exercises in the same muscle group, 30 sec on/30 sec off, or 40/20 depending, then rest for 1 minute and repeat. First round was incline, narrow grip merkins on the block, then decline wide grip merkins, then alternating merkins with one hand on block one hand off. Second round was straight leg deadlifts, rotating lunges, and sumo squats (all with block). Round 3 was situps with OH block press, flutter press with block, and LBCs no block.
Thang 3: About 8 minutes of station work. 2 stations were murder bunnies, one was farmer’s carry with two blocks, one was burpees, rest was PAX choice with block – curls, triceps, OH press, etc. Time.
Moleskin: Huge shout out to Midriff for hiding another 8 cinder blocks next to Blakeney Target last night. I retrieved them and put them back in their spot for future DaVinci and Firestarter. If you plan to move them for Maul/NOE, here’s a pro tip – do it the night before because at 5:15 am, you will need to awkwardly waive to all the construction guys working the Target project as they see you taking stuff out of the woods.
Humbled as always,
Soft Pretzel
Posting for LaFawnduh
14 pax joined me for my VQ at the Maul! Started off with a mosey to Regal to see if Napoleon Dynamite 2 was out. Got a warm up in where YHC (Your Humble Correspondent) needs to improve on calling exercises in cadence.
Mosey over to Chipotle as Napoleon wanted a dang quesadilla. Proceeded to do a modified Walls of Jericho (7 reps, 7 reps, 7 laps) of Merkins, jump squats, step ups, burpees, dips, plank jacks and shoulder taps.
Mosey over to Gamestop, grab a copy of Dance Dance Revolution to work on our dance skills. Run to each median (4) and do 15 merkins, back to the line to do 15 lunges. Next was 2 medians and 15 jump squats and 15 merkins. Final median and 15 merkins and 15 lunges.
Mosey back to Tap and Vine for some wall sits and air presses before circling up and half the circle called an exercise for Mary. Ending with Rooster’s call of Big Boy Situps.
Thanks for all who offered great advice and feedback to make my next Q better. Stay focused guys!