No Quit

No Quit

QIC: Greenspan

Date: May 7, 2019

PAX: Cherry Pie, Zima, Van Gogh, Turnover, Cheesesteak, Beverly, Palin

Eight of the DashPax conquered the fartsack and then conquered the ALARMs that awaited them in downtown WS on a perfect spring morning.

Warmarama:

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The Thang:

• While we wait for any late arrivals, run to end of the launch lot. Run forward two parking space numbers, Merkins x 10, run backwards one parking space number, repeato until you reach the other end of the lot.  Total of 50 merkins.

Run to parking deck across from 1^st Pres for the first ALARM:

• Pull-ups x 20, Rocking Lunges x 20 (DC), Low Dolly x 25, Run to top of deck, Merkins x 25

Run back down, out of the deck, and across the street to the wall beside 1^st Pres:

• Get ups on the wall x 20, Dan Taylor Squats x 20, High Dolly x 20, Run to Fourth Street, Spider Merkins x 25

Run south on Cherry Street, east on Third Street to Thai Harmony courtyard:

• Dips x 20, Monkey Humpers x 20, Penguin Crunch x 50 (DC), Run to Corpening Plaza, Hand-Release Ranger Merkins x 20

Stay in Corpening Plaza:

• ASTs forward x 50 + backward x 50, Alternating Step-ups x 20, Cherry Pie Death Crunch x 20, Run to One West Fourth Street courtyard, Divebomber Merkins x 15

Stay at One West Fourth courtyard:

• Jackreachers x 50, Fastfeet (DC) x 50, Crunchy Frog x 20, Run down the hill to train tracks and back up to courtyard, Starfish Merkins x 20

Run west on Fourth Street, dodge bicyclist on sidewalk, south on Park Vista Lane:

• Burpees x 10, Copperhead Squat + Jump x 10, American Hammer x 10 (DC), AYG back up Park Vista Lane to Fourth Street

Short on time, run west on Fourth Street, south on Cherry Street and back into the parking deck:

• Pullups x 5, Rocking Lunges x 5, Low Dolly (?) x 5

Run across street to wall outside 1^st Pres:

• Get ups x 5, Calf Raises on the steps x 20

Jailbreak to far corner of launch lot, then circle up:

• SSH OYO, Merkins x 5, SSH OYO, Merkins x 5

Fin.

Total distance ~ 3.2 miles

Announcements:

• Convergence at Samaritan Ministries on Saturday, May 18^th. Q is Cherry Pie.  Opportunity for F3 to reestablish a presence at a partner organization.  Coffeeteria will be onsite post-workout.
• Cherry Pie has Q Wednesday, May 8^th, at Conspiracy.
• Mongoose has Q Wednesday, May 8^th, at Mayhem.
• Van Gogh has Q Thursday, May 9^th, at TRQ.
• Cheesesteak has Q Friday, May 10^th, at Urban Assault.

Prayer Requests:

• Keith Vest, BooBoo’s brother-in-law, was having additional treatment this week for cancer.
• Those struggling with addiction.
• For BB&T neighbors and friends in a period of uncertainty with the Suntrust merger.
• For Muslims celebrating Ramadan. “Ramadan Mubarek” is a common greeting that means, “Have a generous Ramadan.”

NMM:

A fantastic morning with a stellar group of men.  I say again, I would not, could not do alone what you men motivate me and one another to do together.  Truly a “girding up of loins.”  There was no quit in any of the men who posted today.

Van Gogh arrived without workout gloves.  “Will we need gloves?”  Uh, yeah.  Fortunately, Palin had some leather Isotoners in his trunk that he loaned to the artist.

Much consternation was heard when twenty pull-ups were ordered in the deck.  Van Gogh petitioned to do the remainder of the workout on top of the parking deck.  The breeze was nice up there…

Thanks to Brother Thistle for scouting downtown for walls suitable for the Get Ups.  1^st Pres’s wall is ideal.  Twenty reps were not ideal.

YHC lost his mind on the second ALARM and took off running to 4^th Street after the ‘L’.  YHC thinks he got distracted by the pedestrian walking down the sidewalk in front of 1^st Pres who seemed very uneasy with what was happening.

YHC urged the pax not to cross the railroad tracks when running down 4^th Street after the OGs got stranded twice on Friday by the locomotive.

VG, Palin, and YHC had to take evasive action to avoid the cyclist at the corner of Fourth and Trade.  VG saw Palin’s life flash before his (VG’s) eyes; Palin thinks he would have come out the victor in the collision.

Speaking of locomotives:  Turnover, Cherry Pie, and Beverly.  Those steam engines have no quit.  They are like the time traveling engine in Back to the Future III:  they just ignore the point of no return and keep going.  Likewise, all three were quiet and methodical in their push through the pain.

YHC suspects that Cheesesteak is one of those pax that got poor marks in school for failure to follow directions but gets high marks in life for the same reason.  He always taking the standard workout move to the modified 11s.  He’s ridiculous.

Zima, of all people, complained about Divebombers, a requirement for each of YHC’s Q.  YHC reminded him of the time he made the pax perform a suicide up Pilot View.  In a monsoon.  With a weight vest.  Palin:  “I remember that.”  To no one’s surprise, the Beast of Meadowlark crushed today’s workout despite his “Aww shucks this sucks” roleplay.

A true honor to lead today’s workout.  It was the high of YHC’s day.  Thanks, Pita, for the opportunity.  The keys were dropped off in the ED for you.