hourglasses and shivs, i mean shims
QIC: crash
Date: 3/11/2023
PAX: dr. toot, chubz, hansel, subfloor, tweety bird, rubber ducky, ziggy stardust, huckleberry, kaffee, van gogh, crash, +cruiser, workbench, for murph.
hourglasses and shims
YHC learned his lesson trying to use 2×4’s for exercises about 2 years ago during VQ @ Alcatraz. This time obtained a large number of shims, which the PAX were encouraged by subfloor not to think of as shivs, and the M helped put exercises on the evening before.
To my surprise a good friend I’d been trying to HC for over a year wrote this time and said ‘see you at 7’. The APB was put out in the preblast on slack to let everyone know we’d have an FNG. Then a note to another possible FNG (also trying to engage for over a year) got the same message “see you at 7”. Another note to slack asking for support. Unfortunately while YHC was doing the murph the second wrote and said they didn’t wake up in time. Maybe next time.
Warmup – mission and core principles recited, and disclaimer given. YHC asked for assistance since the FNG was an attorney and a disclaimer also given that the disclaimer was not being given by an attorney.
SSH x 20, 6 abe vigodas and 11 of: IST, hillbillies, FW/BW arm swirly things, michael phelps, whirly w/a clap, 5 burpees.
Workout
8 shims @ each station. A one minute plastic hourglass timer at each station. PAX take turns turning over the shim, start the timer, watch the timer, and PAX do amrap of that exercise. Then mosey to the next station. Stations set up front left of church, in back parking lot, in front right of church, and next to blocks in back. Van Gogh helped me put everything out about 5-7 min before 7 am. There was a bit of strategy to this. Arm section, ‘other’ section, block section, and ab section in that order. Arms on opposite side from blocks, abs between and ‘other’ in a section of the parking lot with some room to move for a couple exercises in that group.
We did each for 1 min unless otherwise noted:
blocks: overhead press, curls, bent row, incline press, skull crusher, blockees
abs: flutter kick, freddie mercs, plank, plank jacks, ww2, and (maybe) crunchy frog?
arms: alt shoulder tap, carolina dry docks, inchworms, wmds, nolan ryans, burpees
other: squats, iron mikes, donkey kicks, bear crawl (10 spaces), crab walk (10 parking spaces), mountain climbers
Mary
ring of fire merkins starting with 3 per pax
COT
Ziggys mom, Thistle’s hip, prayers for those pax with kids who are sick or parents who are ailing or nearing end of life. Prayers for those pax battling cancer. Prayers for discernment and wisdom in decision making in everything associated with life’s difficulties.
NMM
Cruiser got after it finishing a murph before 6 as the pax who showed up for a murph were getting started. He had to be far away by 9 so had to get started early.
cruiser, van gogh, chubz, hansel, rubber ducky, dr toot, workbench for the murph. enjoyed catching up with them and running and chatting a bit with rubber ducky. good 2nd F and (I think ) dr. toot’s tunes during the murph.
van gogh and hansel leading the charge as we moseyed from station to station.
thanks to tweety bird for coming out, good thing he did as he turned over blockees early at the block station and turned over burpees at the arm station, developing a bit of a reputation for himself.
glad subfloor helped us with the difference between shims and shivs and no one got shivved during the workout.
ziggy returned from visiting mom over the weekend arriving home friday. great to have him out.
most of the pax had good conversations and encouragement to our fng, who I think enjoyed the workout. though yhc brought the fng out, had to follow the workout along and thought it would be good to let those conversations happen. seemed like there was a fair bit of conversation with tweety bird, chubz, subfloor, ziggy, and huck during the workout.
before prayers and COT we did the naming, fng’s daughter is best friends with yhc’s daughter and we’ve known each other a long time. fng is a trial attorney of the type that tom cruise plays in the movies. lieutenant kaffee from a few good men and mitch mcdeere came to mind, a number of other options were offered but the pax seemed ok to let yhc give the name i’ve been thinking of for some time – welcome former FNG Kaffee!
YHC has lots of hourglasses (cheapest to purchase in bulk from amazon) – dm me on slack if you’d like some for your workouts.
