Birthday Party at WIB
Birthday Party at WIB
QIC: Van Gogh
Date: 12/20/2018
PAX: Root Canal, Drip, Zima, Cherry Pie, Palin, Robocop, Don Quixote, Razzie, Greenspan, Honey Badger (former FNG Bryan Giegler, WB), Thistle (WD), Van Gogh (QIC)
Location: Academy Sports off of Stratford and Burke Mill
Thursday is my son’s 2nd birthday. To celebrate we’re going to go to the new Sporting Goods store in town and enact some pain. The workout plan for WIB tomorrow is a half mile loop with 3 pain stations:
- Start at Station X, Head to Station A
- Station A – Mike Tysons
- Run down to Van Buren St, Cut back up middle parking row to Station X
- Station X – Grizzly Burpees
- Run down next middle row toward Van Buren St
- Station E – Van Goghdas (double count)
- Run back around to Station A
- Repeato til time called.
Increase sets by multiples of 2… up to 16 (2, 4, 8, 16)… then decrease (16, 8, 4, 2).
- What is a Grizzly Burpee, you ask? One full rep is:
- Quickly Bear Crawl arms forward to plank position
- Merkin (optional)
- Jump feet up to hands
- Jump squat, hands up!
- Hands back down to ground
- Jump feet back into plank
- Merkin (optional)
- Quickly Crawl Bear hands back to touch feet
- Jump squat, hands up!
Looking forward to seeing you all there! -VG
CoT
- Welcome to former FNG Bryan Giegler, henceforth known as Honey Badger! EHed by Huckleberry at work after YHC tried and failed to bring him out for a few years at church. He started working recently at WFU PA school with Huck and Touch-me-not, 80% full time there. Naming stemmed from him being from Wisconsin (or Minnesota, same thing [not my quote]) and the Badgers.
- Many announcements for convergences the next few weeks.
- Drip has Urban Assault
- Palin tried to converge Wednesday and Thursday workouts into a 4 hour beatdown but failed and now has to queue two days in a row.
- Prayer requests that folks remember the reason for the season and be there for folks who struggle this time of year.
- Openings to volunteer at Samaritan Inn, and thoughts from CP on needing to start up a workout there again.
- YHC took us outnumbered lifting up prayer requests and giving thanks.
NMM
- Great turnout this AM to celebrate, thank you men for joining me in celebration of my sons 2nd birthday… time sure does fly!
- Much debate over why just 3 stations instead of 4 for A-X-E-L, but really YHC just wanted to ensure we passed 3 miles today…. and we did!!! Between 3 and 3.33 for all! #TClaps men!
- More debate over the 8 motions required for one rep of what YHC is calling a “Grizzly Burpee”, morning including some unkind language.
- Razzie was especially unsure of the order of operations.
- Thistle didn’t bother counting, but appeared to be trying which is great for him.
- Cherry Pie did extra because he’s in the Rustbucket school for Cyborgs. Also, thanks for the HC, the only one!
- Zima was doing a more difficult variation and thought it was easy when I corrected him. He also pushed the pace all morning.
- Palin said I was being an especially nice a**hole today… I was aiming for the other way around, but I’ll take it! Thanks buddy!
- Greenspan was flying through the motions, putting in strong work despite possibly hurting his knee during his Q at the Outhouse Monday. Hope it’s nothing bad!
- Huckleberry was doing one armed SSH and either did Mike Tyson’s and Grizzly Burpees one armed as well, or he just enjoys that variant more now to mess with us?
- No Toots from noises from Root Canal this AM, unless they happened while we were running?
- Nice to finally meet Robocop and Don Quixote this AM! Both guys seemed like seasoned PAX at this point… I think we need a Q school for them soon!
- Our FNG Homey Badger asked Huckleberry what you could possibly do in a parking lot for a workout… he gets it now and hopes to be back!
Thanks for the opportunity to lead Thistle, such a pleasure to lead such fine men and be a part of this amazing group! I look forward to the day my son can join us at a beatdown!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year if I don’t see any of y’all before then,
Van Gogh
