Teamwork and Leadership at Purgatory

Teamwork and Leadership at Purgatory

QIC: Burlap

Date: 21 April 2018

PAX: Splash, Spamalot, Offsides, BAM, D-Day, Butter, Starfish, Ziggy Stardust, The Singing Cowboy, Pony Express, Plunger, Goofy, Bulldog, Green Acres (WD), Parkay (WB), Thistle, Ripple, Drama Queen, Burlap (QIC)

Purgatory  21 April 2018

PAX:  Splash, Spamalot, Offsides, BAM, D-Day, Butter, Starfish, Ziggy Stardust, The Singing Cowboy, Pony Express, Plunger, Goofy, Bulldog, Green Acres (WD), Parkay (WB), Thistle, Ripple, Drama Queen, Burlap (QIC)

19 Pax came to Purgatory on a beautiful spring morning looking for an odd Burlap workout and got that plus an in-field lesson on teamwork and leadership.  Here is the THANG:

Warm up in parking lot

Cotton Pickers 10 IC
Windmills 10 IC
IST 15 IC
Toy Soldiers 10 IC
Peter Parkers 20 IC
SSHs 25 IC
Mountain climbers 20 IC
CH Squats 15 IC

Clue/Instruction 1 – Two lines — Slow Indian Run hauling football to front of line and then dropping it with man in back picking it up and hauling to front, etc. To track, then CCW on track to far shed.

Soccer Ball – instruction 2 – one pax calls an exercise for the rest of pax and dribbles ball to goal and back. Next calls and dribbles and so on.

Clue 2 – bring both balls and partner carry (alternating as needed) to backstop

Brick – instruction 3 – CDDs up to number of Joey Logano’s car in Monster Energy NASCAR Cup series (22)

Clue 3 – bring all coupons and plank Indian Run to edge of playground

Post – instruction 4 – each of pull-ups/Harris Teeter Totters/Turkish get-ups up to number of draft order for Michael Jordan in 1984 NBA draft (3)

Clue 4 – bring all and run with hands behind back (if not carrying a coupon) to fence

2×4 board – instruction 5 – get all coupons and pax members over the fence without any touching – ok to go back and forth around fence but all items and pax have to go over fence from trackside to school side without touching fence

Clue 5 – bring all and mosey to back wall

Kettle Bell – instruction 6 – Mike Tysons against wall up to number of Beethoven’s symphony that features a setting for Friedrich Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” in its fourth movement (9)

Clue 6 – bring all and mosey to flat grass area behind school

Weight Vest – instruction 7 – Burpees up to number of the only U.S. President to graduate from UNC (11)

Clue 7 – bring all and mosey to Lido deck

Brick – instruction 8 – monkey humpers up to # of 10th number in Fibonacci sequence that begins 0, 1 (34)

Clue 8 – remain at deck and perform derkins/dips/Nolan Ryans each arm up to the number of lines in a typical Shakespearan sonnet. (14)  Repeato.

Mosey with all items to parking lot for Mary.

COT/Announcements

• Splash is raising money for Leukemia/Lymphoma Society.  See him or his Twitter feed for link to donate.  To celebrate (and encourage donations), there will be a Sufferfest and party on May 12.  Look for Splash communications for details as the date approaches.  Feel free to relieve yourself in his neighbor’s yard or pool.
• Sunday, 4/22, 06:45 DashPaxRuckers from Reynolda Village.  See Twitter for route.
• Sunday, 4/22, The Racket is on at Speas Elementary.  Watch Twitter for time, likely 14:00.
• Good collegiate soccer matches at Wake at noon and 12:00 today, with $5 admission (or Burlap-approved FREE on the hill).
• Good collegiate baseball game at Wake hosting Clemson at 16:00 today.  Join Starfish and crew.
• Goofy and others recommend parents and teens check this out:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNR-dDHio5s
• See a reading of DQ’s brief play tonight at 19:30 at the Shepherd’s Center.
• Pray for Burns’ wife and her test today.
• Pray for Offsides’ daughter, an 8th grader.
• Pray for DQ’s mother-in-law.
• Pray for students attending proms this season, including Burlap’s daughter tonight.
• QIC took us out.

Naked Man Moleskin

• Not sure where the ‘inspiration’ for this workout came from.  Had planned for early June, but Undertow is surfing (at a work conference) in Cali, so YHC took today.
• Butter struggled with dropping or leaving the football, as Bama fans refuse to fumble.  Bulldog paid off a painful — not monetarily but pride-wise — wager today at Coffeeteria related to Bama and UGa.
• Spam’s version of dribbling was interesting.  BAM blamed it on the Q being to too cheap to own a pump.  Starfish correctly postulated that Parkay’s needle was damaged.
• Speaking of Spamalot, he and The Singing Cowboy were vying for most popular pax with the easier exercises they choose for the group.  At the other end of the spectrum, Thistle was fine with screwing the pax with burpees.
• T-Claps to the pair of Pony and Plunger for ‘winning’ the partner carry race across the field.  Quoth Plunger, “It wasn’t a competition, but we won.”  Also, T-Claps to Bulldog for carrying YHC the whole way.  “I don’t want to make you carry me,” he said.
• YHC was a little concerned about the first quiz, on Joey Logano’s number.  To my surprise, Parkay guessed (correctly) 22.  Others guessed 26.  Parkay didn’t argue loudly enough or convincingly enough, some did 26 CDDs while others did 22 CDDs.  The Q revealed the correct answer and made the Pax do another 22.
• Butter enjoyed the plank line (don’t call it a ‘train’) by skipping and leaping over the planked pax as he progressed up the line.
• Several folks knew MJ was drafted third (behind Olajuwon and poor Sam Bowie).
• The teamwork and leadership portion began to be revealed more at the fence obstacle.  YHC did not expect the pax to use the 2×4 board, but with backs of The Singing Cowboy, Thistle, and others, and with the shoulders of Offsides, D-Day and others, we all made it over.  It was interesting to see how this method came about in increments, naturally, not completely mapped out.  Green Acres correctly surmised, “This is a bad idea.”  The pax made it safer continuously.  The standing DISCLAIMER was needed when Pony came down on Thistle’s leg.  Otherwise, a pretty quick and efficient crossing.
• BAM and Spam are still waiting for someone to use their post.
• T-Claps to Starfish for nailing the 9th Symphony.  Others got it, too.
• There was about to be trouble with the number of presidents.  DQ quickly and correctly said James K. Polk.  He also quickly but errantly said 10.  The pax was about to perform the burpees when a couple of folks questioned him and they all decided 11 was correct.  Good catch.  The Q would have ‘hated’ to make the Pax do the burpees again.
• Spam is really fast at burpees.  Ask him about his technique.
• Another leadership opportunity was taken by Offsides in wearing the weight vest while doing burpees.  Then D-Day took the reins and relieved him.
• YHC felt confident that either Parkay or D-Day would get the Fibonacci sequence, and they came through with flying colors.  Ziggy Stardust wished he pursued a terminal degree in mathematics, for only for a few seconds.
• Ripple and Splash were frequently out front during the moseys/runs.
• Goofy and Bulldog approved the low running workout.  Per Starfish’s technology, we still got in about 1.2 miles.
• The pax made it through the workout about 3 minutes faster than scheduled, so we repeated the arms stuff and then had an extended Mary.
• YHC felt like we didn’t work out that hard during the first 50 minutes, so he tried to make Mary difficult, so some of the Pax thought he was angry.  That, and YHC made public note of Plunger’s inability to keep one leg still during one-legged dollies.
• There was some MC during the warm-up from the general direction of Butter, but due to YHC calling cadence and not really listening, the Q missed the abundance of humor.  YHC did get something about his shorts, which joke returned several times during the proceedings as YHC pulled clues from his shorts pockets.
• YHC was interested to observe which Pax stepped up to take partial leadership roles in several situations such as:  Who would read the instructions?  Who would be confident enough in his answer to suggest it?  Who would carry the heavier items from spot to spot?  Who would figure out how to get Pax over the fence and how would he convince others to follow?  Who would step up and wear the weight vest during the burpees?  Who would watch/follow/observe/suggest well?
• Recall that F3’s purpose is to invigorate leadership in men.  Part of that leadership is knowing how and when to use your gifts AND how and when to rely on others’ gifts.  The Pax demonstrated that lesson well today, even if they didn’t realize it.  

An honor to “lead”,

Burlap