Hollowed out Volcano
QIC: Crash
Date: 2022/02/06
PAX: Ziggy Stardust, Green Acres, Boomerang, Crash
On a rainy morning YHC planned for Trivia Tabata under shelter. Unlike the last time this was the plan it actually rained. It wasn’t so bad.
Boomerang and I started and thought we may be the only ones when Ziggy rolled up, successfully evading being pulled over by the cops that morning or running any lights. Then through the darkness emerged Green Acres running to the AO in the rain. The 4 of us briefly considered to Omaha and have coffee before deciding to stay for the workout, after all some trivia planning and playlist planning had gone in the night before.
We moseyed to under shelter for
Warm up
SSH, IST, Hillbillies, AST Forward, Whirly w/clap, AST Backward, Abe Vigoda
Then the Workout
We briefly considered walking around the back for rocks but someone thought there were some out front, by some landscaping closer to the road were well placed rocks. These were fine specimens not repeatedly picked up and thrown down by the PAX like the ones in the back. As we each gathered one, more than one cautioned to remember where they were obtained so they could be placed back in the same place. Leave no trace. Noted.
Stay in place for CSAUP Trivia / Tabata. Rock / geology theme. Well it had a point, which was to work out. The theme was pretty loose. Rocks on and under ground, the type that fall from the sky, and other associated things.
45 sec on, 30 sec off, every round, or 2nd, or 3rd round depending on feeling, we would ask a trivia question. Get it right: next exercise. Miss it: Burpees for that round.
Did following exercises:
Diamond Merkins, OH Press, Shoulder Tap, Dips, Monkey Humper, Mtn Climber, Skull Crushers, American Hammer, Incline Press, Squat, Plank Jack, Upright Row, LBC, Merkin, FW Lunge, Curls, Banana, Freddie Mercury, Carolina Dry Dock, H2H (I think we made it that far. Maybe not).
Along with Burpees mixed in there whenever someone missed a question.
Some folks were coming in the front door so we moseyed to another covered area and did the ‘line of fire’ (no room for ‘ring of fire’) for Mary. Starting with 5 pushups.
NMM
Thankful to these guys for showing up. Boomerang was out to support and learned a lot of geography. He wanted to do burpees, I think, he loves burpees, so pretty sure he was throwing some of the questions he pretended to miss.
The playlist was Green Acres approved. Green Acres remembered Wookiefoot from the last Crash Q at Iron Throne. Seemed to be interested what would come next. This time was completely different, songs about rocks, things falling (i.e. like a meteor), rocky planetary bodies, or with ‘rock’ in the title. There are no shortage of those, and a ton of good ones.
Ziggy did pretty well on the trivia, complete this quote from Dr. Evil, for instance: “Even after they give me the money I’m still going to melt every city on the planet with ______?” He was close. He promised to bring some good questions for YHC in the future.
There was a lot of focus on extinction level events and everyone could tell you more about the rock that killed the dinosaurs. Scientists don’t actually know how big it was. Depends if it was a fragment of an asteroid, meteorite, or a comet fragment. Both answers 4.3 and 6.2 miles were correct. It’s estimated a meteorite 60 miles in diameter could completely wipe out all life on earth.
There were some funny questions. It was YHCs first time Q’ing twice in a week, and a busy one again and YHC was punchy the evening before. Some of the contingent that often attends WIB might have appreciated. Yesterday prior to Alcatraz I recounted one of my favorite questions for Root Canal and the assembled crew:
What is the measure used to rate power of volcanic explosions?
a. The pentatonic bass scale
b. The volcanic explosivity index
c. The dr. toot compression rating
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