Ring of Fire and Strawberry Supermoons at Mayhem
QIC: BAM
Date: 06/15/22
PAX: Crash, The Pony Express (WD), Double Wide, High Cotton, Subfloor, Double D (WB & FNG)
YHC doesn’t get to Mayhem very often, preferring the warm confines of BnW, but always a pleasure to venture out to different AO’s. The site Q was kind enough to shoot a message saying he wouldn’t be able to join today, something stupid like work, but we would make do.
The second supermoon of the year was still in the sky to welcome pax as they arrived and cast a lovely light upon us. The second supermoon is also known as the strawberry moon, although it was lacking much of a red hue.
It was a lovely mixture of pax to assemble on this warm June morning, which often leads to weather and humidity discussions. YHC recalled my favorite GIF for this type of weather, mistakenly thinking it featured Matt Damon, but was actually from some random comedy called Wrecked.
But the Matt Damon reference got Pony remembering he is currently displeased with Matt Damon. Evidently Pony has a co-worker whose first name is Damon, and Pony keeps calling him Matt. I believe that might be some misplaced frustration, but since neither Damon nor Mr. Damon were present to contest, we allowed it.
We also learned Boomerang is afraid of the potential of running and did not join us.
Realizing it was 0530 and the Q hadn’t started the music, we got started. Actually were a minute late because in attempting to track the workout on his “fancy” hand-me-down watch, YHC forgot he had done a hard reset and so did not the normal activities to choose from.
Warmorama
- Since Double Wide EH’d an fng, a proper disclaimer, 5 core principles, and mission statement were give
- SSH
- Copperhead Squat
- IW
- Tempo Merkin
- Whirlies
The Thang
Ring of Fire! – 1 minute AMRAP at 10 different stations, :20 seconds to mosey between stations
- Burpees
- Shuttle Run
- Star Jacks
- CDD
- Freddie Mercs
- Merkins
- Step Ups
- Mt. Climbers
- Squat Jumps
- Low Flutter
Pax got in 2.75 loops before time was called
Playlist
- We didn’t start the fire – Billy Joel
- Diamond Ring – Bon Jovi (much slower song that YHC realized)
- Ring of Fire – Johnny Cash
- Light My Fire – The Doors
- Sex on Fire – Kings of Leon
- Girl on Fire – Alicia Keys
- Great Balls of Fire – Jerry Lee Lewis
- Burning Down the House – Talking Heads
- Soul on Fire – Third Day
- The Fire Down Below – Bob Segar
- Fireball – Pitbull
- Single Ladies – Beyonce (you know, cause if you like it, you gotta put a ring on it)
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NMM
- Not as much MC as YHC was expecting, but there was some
- Burpees as the first station elicited some replies
- Double Wide had a huge Doors phase/fan boy back in the day
- Several of the pax that have daughters who are big fans of Alicia Keys, YHC is as well
- Crash spoiled the big song ending by hoping Beyonce was on the playlist
- There was hope/assumption that Fire by Jimi Hendrix would make the list, in hindsight, that was a glaring omission by the Q
- High Cotton left early, most likely to avoid having to go to coffeteria on Saturday
- So, Double Wide (CT), brought out our FNG (FKA AJ) who is a teacher, but was from Orlando and a Florida University grad. YHC got in the required pot shots at Jorts U, but avoided any permanent names in that direction. The creative juices weren’t flowing early, but came through in the end, here’s how it went:
- Orlando = Disney
- CT only has friends with similar two lettered friends like AJ
- Donald Duck then becomes Double D!
Prayer Requests
- Asian and aging parents
- Crash’s daughter heading out today on multi-week EF Tours trip
- Thistle’s hip
- Teachers getting some summer rest
- Subfloor shared something, and now YHC is forgetting
