Urban Assault Singing in the Rain

Urban Assault Singing in the Rain

Urban Assault battles for freedom and doesn’t melt

10/26/18

Q: BAM

Pax: Litterbox (WB), Knope (visiting from F3Churham), PETA, Drip (WD), Cheesesteak, BAM

Trying to avoid the long slow decline that can happen when it gets colder and darker, YHC knew he needed to step in when our dear brother Whirley, the scheduled Q, asked for a substi-Q.  Knowing the weather looked “ideal” made the opportunity even harder to resist.  Then when the site-Q offered his “help” by saying there were lots of parking decks around to avoid pax-melt, a plan was born!

So, conjuring up the Q’s best William Wallace – cause doing a short workout in the rain basically requires the same fortitude to fight against a tyrannical empire after your fiancé has been brutally murdered and will eventually get you drawn and quartered, a plan was hatched to keep pax as wet as possible.

5 brave souls joined the Q on his quest to prove our mettle and answer the age old question, will Cheesesteak’s beard melt in the rain?  Knope drove all the way from Durham to find out!  (and he attended a Parks and Rec conference that was required for his job as well, but that was clearly secondary)

Warm-o-rama

The usual stuff happened, in the usual way, for the usual amount of time, once we got Cheesesteak to come out from under the large umbrella.

The Thang

Because William Wallace didn’t fight alone, neither would we!  Most/all work going forward would be done with a partner and pax were encouraged to rotate partners often.

#1 – Fire Drill (look it up on www.f3nation.com)

#2 – Mosey to train tracks, and partners complete 50 pull ups, each doing 5 sets of 5, (LBC’s while you wait)

#3 – Mosey to 4th street for some stretched out Dora 1-2-3

• 100 partner merkins at this station

#4 – Mosey to Vine St

• 200 partner leg scissors

#5 – Mosey to bridge on Vine St

• 100 Jump Squats, 100 Regular squats, and 100 dealer’s choice jump or regular

#6 – Mosey up Vine to parking lot

• Partner Push, flapjack as needed, over to Patterson
• Partner Pull, back to Vine

#7 – Mosey to Patterson

• 10 each arm partner pull-ups

#8 – Mosey to Bailey Park

• Ring of Fire – CDD and Cumberland County Viaducts went around the ring while pax planked

#9 – Mosey back to starting spot

• LBC’s and Fin!

NMM

• Our travelling pax reluctantly climbed in a stranger’s car, PETA, to wait for the Q to arrive.  “Umm, you here for the workout?”  “I sure am!  Climb on in my car while we wait.”
• Pax appreciated jumping right into the wetness with the Fire Drill exercise, plus got the heart rate up nicely!
• PETA demonstrated surprising “sprite-ness” on the drop and roll portion of Fire Drill.  He proudly shared he didn’t know much, but did know how to drop and roll quickly.  Pax assumed he either set himself on fire regularly as a lad or had flashbacks of a coach in too-tight shorts yelling at him until he got it right.
• Pax were warmed by the light bulb that went off when they figured out Knope’s nickname was Knope and not Nope.  As in Leslie, from the show Parks & Rec, cause he works for the Parks & Rec department.  Clearly TV Dinner was taken.  Ron Swanson –> Swanson TV Dinners, a staple meal of a certain generation.  #bestbrowniesever
• 300 jump squats is a lot, even between partners, especially when the Q is usually the 6.  So, at least the Q was happy YHC called an ‘omaha’ after the first 100
• Several of the pax were not familiar with partner push and pull – that is a dang shame.  We have lost our moorings, becoming unhinged from the security of classic exercises as we keep chasing for that newer, fancier model.  It will lead us to ruin, I say!
• Cheesesteak ruminated how partner pull/pick ups were a great exercise as well, right before the Q called for it!  It’s like we share a brain.  (by share, he got one and I know who he is)
• Pax tried to recall where the viaducts are actually located in Cumberland County.  PETA assumed it was a drug reference, but he does dispense drugs all day.
• Litterbox tolerated the Q and probably went for a 12 mile run to actually break a sweat after the beatdown.  #beastmode
• Drip just smiles and keeps working, always a pleasure having him join.
• Thistle #fartsacked

Announcements

• Kapow, my 2.0’s, 5k on 11/10 – only $10, Muddy Creek Greenway – benefiting Paisley Magnet School’s PE Department.  Come one, come all!  https://runsignup.com/Race/NC/WinstonSalem/PaisleyPantherPE5k

Prayer Requests

• Homeless in our community, especially as it begins to turn colder
• PETA for wisdom on dealing with some lack of honesty/integrity at work
• Frazier family – Rob Frazier passed away suddenly this week, 53.  His wife is our youngest’s 5th grade teacher.  He was Centenary UMC organist for many years.  Service is Saturday.