Beautiful Spring Day at Purgatory

Beautiful Spring Day at Purgatory

QIC: Burlap

Date: 24 Feb 2018

PAX: Bulldog, Lace, Boomerang, Ziggy Stardust, RustBucket (WD), Cato, Goofy, Landshark, The Singing Cowboy, D-Day, Parkay (WB), Zima, Offsides, Hoptoberfest, Burlap

15 Pax.  50 Degrees and sunny.  Is this Feb 24th?

Pax:  Bulldog, Lace, Boomerang, Ziggy Stardust, RustBucket (WD), Cato, Goofy, Landshark, The Singing Cowboy, D-Day, Parkay (WB), Zima, Offsides, Hoptoberfest, Burlap

Here is what we did. It was worse than it reads. No, really.

Warm up in parking lot

Jumpropes IC
Copperhead Squats IC
SSH IC
Hillbillies IC
Running with Scissors IC
PlankJacks IC
Windmills IC
Toy Soldiers IC

Follow the leader run to far end of field using circling planter, in and out of islands, DB drills, support posts, around backstop, fast feet on timbers, playground equipment, bench, and onto tennis courts.

The Multiplier –
Run to left corner and do 5 monkey humpers, to far corner for 5 RTs, right corner for 5 ISTs and back to gate for 5 diamond merkins and hold plank until Q releases and gives instructions. Multiply to 10-15-20-25- and 30.

Run with hands behind head to far corner of field.
Captain Therkin –
1 RT and 1 WWII sit up followed by 5 merkins. Call each exercise to keep pax together. Go up by ones to 10 RT and 10 WWII sit ups but always with 5 merkins except for last when did 10.

Partner carry to center of field (29)

Iron Cross –
Four directions partner A stays and planks/elbow planks/tables/Al Gores while partner B runs to track and performs exercise and flapjack. Four directions: School 20 CDDs; to back fence for 10 Burpees; to far/side fence 20 Mountain Climbers, and to road for 20 Freddie Mercuries.

Run with hands behind back to grassy area in circle by rock pile.

The Steinl –
Plank for 3 different pax 10 counts, then down to elbow plank for three pax 10 counts; then 10 Amazing Spidermans with right leg (outside, straight, inside and backwards IC). Rest on knees and then repeat with left leg.

Normal mosey to parking lot for mary.

Mary
On back and keep feet and legs off ground until Q says recover twice in a row. Only rest is to let feet rest on butts.
Heels to Heaven IC
One legged dolley right IC
Freddie Mercury IC
One legged dolley left IC
LBCs IC
Low flutter right only IC
Low Flutter left only IC
Recover – Recover

BOM/COT

• Lace’s grandmother passed away after 93 years — pray for his family as they mourn and celebrate her life
• Today is last for Hoptoberfest’s shop
• Landshark’s Step-Father is under hospice care in Tallahassee; almost ‘caught his limit’ — pray for all concerned
• RustBucket is running up and down Pilot Mountain this morning after coffeeteria — comments about lack of wisdom coming with his age
• Pray for those suffering from addiction, seen and unseen
• Pray for a friend of TSC going through a difficult situation
• Pray for family of Bulldog’s college friend that passed away at 53 and for those supporting that family including Bulldog

YHC took us out.

NMM

• YHC enjoyed counting us down every minute from 4 to 1.  YHC also stated the mission of F3 and disclaimed the crowd, even without FNGs.  Comments were made that Van Gogh was not present and we could, in fact, get on with the workout.
• Lots of MC when the first exercise was jumpropes.  Lots of skills in the pax — especially when the ropes are invisible.  Offsides was doing doubles and several pax including Zima were going right to left like a boxer.
• Some enjoyed the Parkour-type warm-up run and others tolerated it and complained about wimpy things like wet benches.
• D-Day or another smart person suggested the Multiplier was more like the Additioner, when we went from 5 reps to 10.  From then on, we multiplied by 1.5, 1.3333 (D-Day was fine with 1 and 1/3rd), 1.25 and 1.20.  D-Day also pointed out the fraction over one was simple each time as the denominator went up by one each time, 1/2 to 1/3 to 1/4, etc.  While in the post workout shower, YHC was thinking over this and realized you could look a the multipliers as 2/1, then 3/2, then 4/3, 5/4 and so on.  Which is nice, elegant progression.
• Running with hands on head and hands behind back is always harder than I think it’s gonna be.
• Pax didn’t complain too much about lying on the wet grass as we were working up a nice sweat.  Pax got the 1 to 10 pattern pretty early.  No complaints that the merkin number was static at 5.
• Strong work on the Iron Cross by all.
• Lace left at end of Iron Cross for work.  Q excused said departure.
• Q fail on planking instructions at beginning of the Steinl.  I said “elbow” when I meant regular plank and most of the Pax complied with verbal instructions even as I was in a straight arm plank.  I was thinking ahead to the next portion of the exercise and my mouth got ahead of my brain.  Oxygen issues.
• The Amazing Spider Man is hard for me, mostly due to the one-legged nature of it. YHC counted fast.
• The Pax finished the workout strong with about 4 minutes of no-rest mary with legs in the air.  Strong work.
• The Multiplier, Captain Therkin, the Iron Cross, and the Steinl were all sets of exercises that YHC (with a few others from WS) ‘enjoyed’ at the Mega in Greensboro this past fall.  You are most welcome.
• YHC thinks he is in decent shape but questions that every time YHC Qs, especially upon listening to the recording of the announcements and hearing myself breathe more heavily than a smoker in a marathon.

I am humbled by the way all you guys work hard, push each other, support each other during the workout, and how you guys really seem to care about one another in conversations in the parking lot and coffeeteria.  Honored to lead from time to time.

Peace,

Burlap