‘Trust, But Verify’, or “Feel the Burns”

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‘Trust, But Verify’, or “Feel the Burns”

Date: 2/28/25

PAX: Burns (EC), Frostbite, Lamb Chop, Tammy, Zesty, Bagpipe, Bevo (“Eric Sweet, 34, Turnover”), $5 Footlong (“Other Lee”), Ludikrous, Greenspan (“Bird Poop”)

A brisk morning greeted nine pax and YHC in the urban confines of our delightful little town.  Burns had already dragged YHC around downtown pre-main event, leaving the Q gasping for air and evaluating life decisions before we even started.  But we got after it.

Warmarama:

Standard fare.  The types of things that incite some people do burpees (and later strain/tear things from not warming up).

The Thang:

Mosey a long ways (queue Frostbite’s habitual, “You know we’re 15 minutes in, right?”) to Corpening Plaza.  Upon arrival, the Q informed the pax that today was a tribute to Burn’s “Choose Your Own Adventure” from 2018 (https://www.f3winstonsalem.com/f3/2018/04/choose-your-own-adventure-at-ua/; some guys have gone missing from that lineup).  Burns did not remember Qing the workout, but the proof is in the backblast.

We moseyed around the lower level, dropping a piece of cardboard in every corner, each with 2 exercises written on it, all x 15:

  • Corner 1: Donkey Kicks, Star Jumps
  • Corner 2: Boot-Slap Squats, Bonnie Blairs (DC)
  • Corner 3: Dive Bombers, Hand-Release Merkins
  • Corner 4: Low Flutters (DC), Glute Bridges

Mosey to top level for one more weinke, x 30:

  • SSHs, ISTs, x 30.

Pax were instructed to complete the first exercise in each corner, in any order of their choosing, then mosey up the stairs to the top and complete SSHs.  Then mosey back downstairs and complete just the second exercise in each corner, then mosey to the top and complete ISTs.  Repeato until time.

Mosey home.  Lo and behold, we had 7 minutes for Mary.

  • Heels to Heaven
  • Cobra Crunch
  • Low Dolly
  • Superman / Banana
  • Plank

 

Announcements:

  • Coffee with the Runs is Sunday at Coffee Perk / Crossnore at 0615.
  • Bagpipe is taking the AO by storm. He has the Q at Alcatraz tomorrow, is taking over Iron Throne on 3/17, and Mayhem
  • $5 Footlong has Village Idiocy on Monday, 3/5, and Conspiracy on
  • Q School is March 29th at 6:15. It will teach you to lead an effective Q.
  • Samaritan Ministries service night is Monday, 3/17/25. Let me know if you can serve.  We currently need four more guys.
  • Impossible Situation has moved to a once-monthly format, and tomorrow is the day for March. Rubber Ducky has the Q.
  • Reminder of the emergency contact Google Sheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z8sBhHcMcyjutMGR_Nls4aPBcTQ8KgebiJw-9Wpzvc4/edit?gid=0#gid=0). Please populate.

 

Prayer Requests:

  • Lamb Chop and his M have a follow-up ultrasound tomorrow. Prayers for seeing a healthy baby.
  • Bagpipe’s friend JC has stage 2 cancer.
  • Frank&Beans was diagnosed with osteoarthritis and is in a lot of pain.

YHC prayed us out.

NMM:

  • As mentioned, Burns took YHC by the neck and dragged him along a not-flat run. Burns carried on a one-sided conversation throughout (including where various pax kids were going to high school), and then dominated the workout proper.  There were signs, however, that he was somewhat impaired, having no recollection of leading the linked-to workout.
  • During Mary, YHC lay down in a pile of bird poop, much of which clung to the circa 2020 Iron Pax shirt. Thus, YHC was renamed “Bird Poop” in COT.
  • YHC brought his trusty boom box along for the trip to Corpening, entrusting it at various points to Lamb Chop, Frostbite, and Bevo. Bevo, by far, carried the box with style and pride.
  • Lamb Chop suggested that Gorbachev or Eisenhower coined the phrase, “Trust but verify.” He was kind of close.  It was in fact Gorbachev’s counterpart, the late great Ronald Reagan who used the phrase in the Russian language throughout nuclear disarmament negotiations with the then-Soviet Union.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
  • Frosty was feeling…frosty towards YHC. Lots of MC, critique of the distance traveled, poor planning & execution, encouragement to go back to Q school, blah blah.  Just wow.
  • Bagpipe came to YHC’s defense when others (guessing either LC, FB, or Bevo) accused YHC of not giving proper instructions. He’s a good man to have to defend you.  T-claps
  • Ludikrous didn’t get much warmup in, arriving just as we were pulling out of warmarama and departing for Corpening. He may have proven correct those agitators who think warmup to be a timewaster by crushing the workout.
  • $5 Footlong was a smiling and encouraging face all morning. He makes us all better.
  • Zesty and Tammy have become beasts. Unlike their peers, they were content to get after it without much commotion.
  • Looking back at Burns backblast, two things were striking.  1)  It’s March of 2025, and that was 2018!  2)  A lot of guys have gone missing.  Some may have moved, some may have life in their face, but some may just need a text or call to let them know that they are meaningful and missed.

Thanks, Spicoli, for the keys.  We missed you.  See the Nantan for the keys since he took them and told me I couldn’t have any until going back to Q school.

 

 

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