QIC: Wham!
9 PAX: Pope; Noxeema Jackson; Escort; Tammy Fae Baker; Gillespie; Diablo; Tron; Vincent (R); Wham!
Time: 0700
Weather: 53* and dry
ZooZooLemon Gear Check: Smedium gray UofL shirt; F3 hat; Black shorts; Salomon Speedcross 3’s
Pre-WO
As noted in my pre-blast, due to a finger injury involving an unfortunate encounter with a SpaghettiOs can on Oaks morning, I’ve been on the injured reserve all week and so once I got the stiches out on Friday, I was ready to get moving and was really looking forward to my Q yesterday. Other than a few times when I was on vacation and once when I had pneumonia, I don’t think I’ve ever missed a full week of F3 since I started nearly 2 years ago. Hopefully that trend continues because I’m a much happier person when I’m posting on a regular basis with my fellow Pax.
COP
We left the shovel flag and moseyed toward Wham! Island for COP:
– 20 SSHs in 4 Count Cadence
– 15 Abe Vigodas in 4 Count Cadence
– 15 Imperial Squat Walkers in 4 Count Cadence
– 15 Merkins in 4 Count Cadence
– 20 SSHs in 4 Count Cadence
– Steinl (5ish minute progression of planks, merkins, peter parkers and parker peters)
Thang 1
Thang 1’s starting point was at the corner of Pee Wee Reese Road and Cherokee Gardens Road. To get back to that point from Wham! Island, we ran up Mount Quimby before then heading back to the road until we got to the intersection.
Several months ago, OJ introduced me to P.M.S. during one of his Qs and I liked it so much that this is now the second time I’ve borrowed it. The letters stand for plank jacks, merkins and squats and the idea is to start with 10 of each exercise, then run to the next point and do 20 of each exercise, hen run to the next point and do 30 of each exercise, and then run to the next point and do 40 of each exercise. You then run back to each point and decrease the number of exercises until you get back to the starting point and doing 10 of each exercise. The 4 points are supposed to form a square of some degree. Yesterday, I decided to incorporate hills into the routine, hence the starting point at the top of the hill where Pee Wee Reese Road and Cherokee Gardens Road intersect and the final point being at the top of Cogan’s Corner. This amounted to a lot of hill running in addition to the 160 reps of each exercise. Good stuff.
We then headed back to the tennis courts for Thang 2.
Thang 2
Thang 2 was also a borrowed exercise…this time it was borrowed from Catfish’s tennis court Q during the convergence last month. For those who weren’t there on that gloriously wet and cold day, Catfish had us do a Jack Webb progression (4:1 ratio) of burpees and bear crawls across the tennis courts. Because we already had a lot of upper body/shoulder work during COP and Thang 1, I switched out bear crawls for broad jumps. So it was 1 burpee/4 broad jumps, 2 burpees/8 broad jumps, 3 burpees/12 broad jumps, etc. until I called time around 7:52 am. I was able to get to 8 burpees and 32 broad jumps and there were some Pax ahead of me. Good work fellas.
Thang 3
With about 7 minutes left, we circled up for Mary, with each Pax calling out an exercise and leading the count. YHC called flutter kicks, Vincent called Freddie Mercuries, Escort called LBCs, but then, before we could finish, we were approached by 2 FIA members who told us that one of the other FIA members had lost her car key somewhere in the grass bordering the 1.2 mile running track around the O’s loop and asked if we could help them look for it. The answer was “of course” and so off we went to search for the key instead of finishing Mary. I actually had to leave shortly after 0800 and the key had not yet been found…but I am told that the key was ultimately found and calm was restored. T-Claps to all involved.
Fun Fact: This was not the first time there was an incident involving a lost key during a Wham! Ruiner Q (see 1/27/18 Ruiner Backblast for more details). All I will say is Tron was in attendance on both occasions. Coincidence?
COT
Due to the situation described in Thang 3, YHC had to leave before we could circle back up at the shovel flag and have COT. I know COT is one of the 5 pillars of F3, but calling an audible to help out a fellow FIA member seemed like a better use of our time so that’s what we did. And I’m fine with that. Just don’t tell F3 Corporate…I don’t want to lose by Q’ing privileges.
Until next time…
-Wham!
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