Heartbroken PAX Who Didn’t Back Down

Heartbroken PAX Who Didn’t Back Down

QIC: SGT Schultz

Date: 3 October 2017

PAX: Drama Queen, Harden, Goofy, Senor Froggy (WB), Palin, Rust Bucket, Lite Brite (WD), Sour Mash, Boomerang, SGT Schultz

It was with very heavy hearts that 10 PAX gathered at #Parliament this morning.   In addition to the unspeakable horror and senselessness in Las Vegas, taking the lives of 59 innocent souls and maiming over 400 others, we were further saddened by the sudden and unexpected passing of Tom Petty, a musician whom many of us grew up listening to over the radio, on LP records, on cassette tapes, and later on CDs.   In tribute to Tom Petty, YHC assembled a playlist of some of his songs to accompany us while we exercised on behalf of many who can no longer do so.   The workout went something like this:

WARMORAMA

• SSH x 15 IC
• IST x 15 IC
• Arm Swirly Things (Fwd) x 15 IC
• Army Swirly Things (Bkwd) x 15 IC
• Overhead Claps x 15 IC
• Seal Claps x 15 IC
• Standing hamstring stretch – 10 count each leg
• Abe Vigodas x 10 IC
• Whirly’s with a social disease x 12 IC

Mosey to the picnic tables in front of the school

• 15 Irkins
• 15 Box Jumps
• 15 Dips
• 15 Right Leg step-ups
• 15 Derkins
• 15 Left Leg step-ups

REPEATO

Mosey to the stash of cinder blocks.  Each PAX grabbed a cinder block and performed the following:

• Overhead press x 12
• 7x7x7 Curls
• Upright Rows x 12
• Goblet squats x 12
• Skull Crushers x 12
• Bent over rows x 12
• Forward raises x 12

REPEATO

After trading their cinder blocks for a pair of bricks, the PAX moseyed to the side of the school to grab some wall, where the following ensued:

• Wall sit x 30 seconds
• Wall sits w/ Wonder Bras x 15
• BTTW x 30 seconds
• While maintaining BTTW, each PAX performed 1 Australian Merkin (essentially an upside down body press), starting from the leftmost PAX and proceeding to the right until everyone had TCB.

REPEATO

After returning the bricks to their home, mosey to the foot of Hank’s Hill behind Southwest Elementary for an abbreviated DORA with the limited time remaining.  After partnering up, the PAX did the following:

• 100 Diamond Merkins — with the non-Merkining partner bear-crawling to the top of Hank’s Hill and jogging down it to  relieve his partner and flapjack;
• 125 Monkey Humpers — with the non-Monkey Humping partner moseying backward to the top of Hank’s Hill (quad-killer and crowd-pleaser!) and jogging back down to relieve his partner

With time running short, we moseyed back to the parking lot for 6 minutes of Mary.

MARY:

• Heels to Heaven x 15 IC
• #Goofy administered the ab-spelling challenge for the day, spelling out “Tom Petty”
• Penguin Crunches x 15 IC
• American Hammers x 15 IC
• Mutton Crunches x 15 IC each side
• 45 Seconds of Elbow Plank

COT

• #LiteBrite needs one more golfer to round out his Foursome for next Friday, golfing skills not necessarily required.  See #LiteBrite for more information.
• Help needed this Saturday to assist in the launch of F3 Lexington; start time will be 0615; location unclear to YHC;  #Sour Mash has more information
• Struggling to make sense of the senselesness, YHC found some inspiration in Proverbs 24, and read a good portion of it out loud during the COT.  It proved to be a very long passage, so YHC found a good place to stop and turned it over to Drama Queen to finish leading us out with prayer, exultation and exhortation to be healers and men of strength and love.

NMM

• YHC’s ears are still ringing, and many of the PAX’s nose hairs  singed and eyes still watering, from the MOAB (Mother of All Backblasts) emitted by #Palin during Mary.  YHC personally saw his body physically propelled a foot upwards off of the pavement from the concussive force.  That is just not normal.

Thanks for honor of allowing me to lead this morning.

Tom Petty Playlist

• Jamming Me
• Runnin’ Down a Dream
• I Won’t Back Down
• Don’t Do Me Like That
• The Waiting
• Depending on You
• Even The Losers (Dedicated to the Wake Forest Demon Deacons)
• Learning to Fly
• American Girl
• I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better
• A Mind with a Heart of Its Own
• You Wreck Me
• A Higher Place