Crowd Sourced Block Chain Technology
QIC: Crash
Date: 7/9/2021
PAX: Dr. Toot, Van Gogh, Nitrous, Pony Express, Ziggy Stardust, Drip, Crash
The past few weeks there has been a nice podcast series from Freakonomics radio on blockchain. Check it out. So, it’s been on YHC’s mind. A block party was promised the evening before.
Warmup
Mission and Core Principles
15 SSH, 15 Abe Vigoda, 15 IST, 15 Hillbillies, 15 AST front and back, intermittently 2 Burpees
Workout
Mosey to blocks in back stopping once or twice to do 5 burpees at a time.
Start the music, a playlist created by searching spotify for ‘block party’ and selecting the first playlist with ‘Clean’ in the title. Not a bad playlist.
Blockchain technology introduced. The PAX walk, carrying their block, no mosey or running, in a line with the pax in the rear ‘mall walk’ speed to the front, stopping the line and calling an exercise.
The circuit for this was from the back of the church to the front lot, all the way around the side lot and around the outside of the entire front lot and then back. This took longer than YHC had anticipated.
This is a difficult one to recall for the backblast but there was a little bit of everything. In general the reps ranged between 10-30 with Van Gogh calling short forms of transportation perpendicular to the line including bear crawl block push, crab walk block push with foot (careful to kick low or risk kicking over and maybe breaking the block) and an assortment of other things. The other PAX called an assortment of exercises. Also memorable was Dr. Toot calling 10, then 20, then 30, 40, 50 block curls.
YHC had a couple other things on tap but this turned out to take the full hour allowing about 5-7 minutes for Mary.
Mary
Crowd sourced Mary also, should have recorded these exercises. Everyone got to do whatever they wanted at least once. YHC remembers left side mutton crunch variation by Toot, left side by Van Gogh, and ww2’s by Nitrous. We closed with ring of fire merkins starting with 3.
NMM
Before the workout 3 of PAX (Van Gogh, Dr. Toot, Nitrous) for the Murph and also Hansel and Gretel. YHC asked Dr. Toot if he was staying and ok with walking with block for the whole workout, and was reassured Root Canal could do that all day.
YHCs biceps are in pain from 50+40+30+20+10 curls all called by Dr. Toot, perhaps that and YHC being out of shape. And returning for the 6 am after a couple weeks not going. On the final stretch Nitrous called high knees and moved us more quickly to avoid the 6th round call from Root Canal.
It was Pony Express’s first ever visit to Alcatraz and it was great to have him. YHC warned him this might feel a little bit like his workout last week at mayhem where we ran with rocks and did exercises periodically. This reminds me we did 10 pullups to introduce Pony to the bars between the finish of the workout and Mary.
Drip and Dr. Toot briefly considered putting their 6 million dollar man knee braced legs together to become mortal like the rest of us or tying the other two together to form some type of Voltron mega 6 million dollar man.
Ziggy seems to have been doing great after reintroducing food after an extended fast which seems like it has conferred some health benefits. YHC is going to try to do a bit of this (seriously).
Nitrous was killing it. A few weeks ago we named Nitrous’s sons Blockchain and Rebar, too bad Blockchain could not have joined for this workout! I think most of the PAX had to adjust and learn that kicking a block is a lot harder than pushing one and you have to push low or the block tips over. Nitrous didn’t know his own strength and one crumbled beneath the force.
It seemed like a decent format and fun for all and was certainly sufficient for YHC.
COT / Announcements / Prayer Requests
Pawtism this Sat! YHCs daughter and artistic friends painting the blocks going on auction.
Blood drive this Sat!
Hansel uncle who recently passed away from heart attack and for his family.
Gretel family traveling.
Prayers for the people injured and the woman killed in Linville at the race several of the PAX attended. Prayers for the driver of the van.
Prayers for parents aging mothers and fathers including Bullwinkle & Ziggy
Prayers for some centeredness in a country that seems increasingly polarized at times.
