Father Day

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Father Day

QIC: Greenspan

Date: 6/22/2020

PAX: Schneider, The Singing Cowboy, Snake Eyes, Bluto, $5 Footlong, Sassy, Boomerang

Eight pax, three of whom got in a +2 mile EC run, came together for some fatherly Idiocy!

Warmarama:

Consisted of Leg Stretches, SSHs, Abe Vigodas, Arm Destroyers, Michael Phelps

Beatdown:

Mosey to side, flatish parking lot of the Y.  Pax found cardboard and a Tupperware with sidewalk chalk.  Card board read as follows:

 

All exercises x 110 reps.  Pax were instructed that they could take a break from whatever exercise they were currently working on at any time, but they had to run (100 yds) or bear crawl / lunge walk (60 yds) whenever they switched exercises.  The Q also threw in a couple of impromptu “five burpees” in the middle of the workout.

 

  • Floyd Mayweathers (Plank Punches)
  • American Hammers
  • Troopers (of the Imperial form)
  • Hand-release Merkins
  • E2K (Mutton Crunch)
  • Rosalita

 

  • Divebombers
  • Alabama Prom Dates
  • Yoga

 

Out of time!

 

Announcements:

  • Van Gogh has the Bells & Whistles Q on Wednesday, launching from Food Lion on Yadkinville Road.
  • 4th of July Convergence will be on the 4th of July at a soon-to-be-announced location.
  • $5 Footlong has 6 days of Qs next week. He’s offering $5 Footlongs for a week for anyone who posts to all workouts (#fakenews).
  • Schneider reminded (announced?) a bottle of bourbon will be awarded to anyone who Qs at every WeFoCo workout Monday-Saturday in a single week. Wednesday workout is a Nomad.  Sour Mash will evaluate the integrity of any claims.
  • The Shmed, August 28-29. 24-hour Completely Stupid and Utterly Purposeful (CSAUP) beatdown to raise awareness and funds for Crisis Control.  Schedule of festivities to come this week.

CoT:

YHC shared some personal thoughts on the dignity and honor of being father, how the race is never finished, and we cannot run it alone.  Furthermore, our activities as fathers are pale imitations of our SkyQ, and the paternal love he demonstrates toward us.  We have to encourage one another, pointing out one another’s blind spots and praising one another’s gifts.  YHC has a friend who recently said, “If it’s not perfect, it’s not the end.”  Though she was speaking in a different context, I think the principle applies to fatherhood very well.

Moleskin:

  • YHC wanted to capture the joy, the exhaustion, the never ending, never giving up theme YHC feels with being the father of three wonderful children in a silly, but challenging manner. Some pax noted the singularity of “Father”; YHC explained that none of us were able to finish the workout alone, and none of us will be the father our children need us to be without others around us to push us onward.
  • The pax were impressed by the seeming preparedness that went into the workout when they discovered the Tupperware container of sidewalk chalk. Our family gets a subscription shipment of the stuff from Amazon every six weeks.  Kobains on missing the obligatory post-workout picture.  We were a sweaty mess, if you can envision that.
  • $5 Footlong was the only one among us who, as of yet, does not have children. This made for some good natured ribbing from the other pax, including the Q who used $5’s MC as the impetus for the burpees.
  • Good to see Bluto out. He kindly picked up YHC’s orange code but otherwise was a silent assassin of the reps.
  • Snake Eyes asked, “What are Alabama Prom Dates?” Schneider quickly volunteered to demonstrate for him; go figure.  Snake Eyes: “Oh.  I get it now.”  It was good to work out with SE after meeting him on Saturday.  Word is he’s going to make a run at Sour Mash’s bottle of bourbon in upcoming weeks.
  • Speaking of, few pax who were not actually present at workout have ever been spoken to and of as much as Mash was this morning. Word is he had a late night….last Thursday.
  • TSC, Schneider, and YHC had a deep philosophical discussion about skunks, after YHC referred to the one we saw on our EC run as “mature.” YHC spent part of his Father’s Day watching a Wild Kratts episode about skunks, so the topic was top of mind.  PSA:  TSC has a friend whose dogs got tangled up with a skunk and reentered the home prior to the friend realizing what had happened.  Three weeks and much ripping out of rugs later, the smell had dissipated.  Not to be outdone, Schneider relayed how he had hit one in his truck in winter.  This resulted in several weeks of cold driving.
  • Boomerang and YHC got to spend some 2nd F time post-workout. Good, as always, to be together.
  • YHC and Sassy were in adjacent, socially distanced parking spaces. Sassy relayed how he was glad he came as he thought that we might be in for wet weather upon exiting his house this morning.  YHC is glad he came too.
  • YHC yelled out with ~5 minutes left, “I just want to complete one exercise!” Most pax ended up with somewhere between 450-650 reps completed and +1 mile run.  Not bad for a Monday.

Thank you all for coming out and having a little fun this morning.  May you be long-suffering and joyful in your daddy dooties (joke for $5 there) today and every day.