A beautiful 42 degree morning in La Grange @ The Range at The Patriot.
My 10th Q of the year, which wraps up IHC for me. This day has been on my mind for a while. This is a make-up Q from when I came down with a stomach bug a few weeks back. Initially, I was feeling a lack of motivation and had plans of re-running my last Q that I did at The O. But it’s March baby, and March brings Madness. My favorite month of the year. My birthday slaps on day 1. It marks the arrival of Spring. St Patrick’s Day keeps the party rolling. Easter occasionally shows its head. But most importantly, March Madness fires up and brings energy to college basketball towns around the country.
We had 16 PAX show up today to get a little better as a team in the gloom:
3.20.24 The Patriot
- SQL (sequel)
- Xerox
- Portabucket
- Ruby (R)
- Saul Goodman
- Craigslist
- Boss Hog (R)
- Montezuma 🐴
- White Bread
- Auto Zone (R)
- Focker
- Holy Roller (R)
- Mannequin
- Flexseal 🐴
- depends 🐴
- Steve-O (Q) 🐴
Warmup consisted of SSH, Toy Soldiers, Imperial Walkers, Grass Grabbers, Downward Dog.
We mosey’d with coupons to the drop off point in the gazebo parking lot.
I explained the primary rule for the morning: “AND ONE!” – At any point during the workout, any HIM is allowed to yell out “AND ONE!” and everyone has to drop and perform one burpee. I wasn’t sure, I had a feeling, but I wasn’t sure how this would play out at The Patriot. Foreshadowing: The Patriot loves burpees.
“AND ONE!”
“AND ONE!”
“AND ONE!”
The PAX here really love burpees. Immediate self reflection inner dialogue “have I made a huge #%*€ing mistake?”. Burpee. Burpee. Burpee.
We started with a mosey down Heartbreak Hill to the donut(ice cream?) shop and back. We get to the bottom…. “AND ONE!”…you know the drill, Burpee.
We make it back to the coupons and….”AND ONE!” “AND ONE!” “AND ONE!”. I kindly requested everyone to chill for a minute so I can explain the action. Haha. I love the energy of The Patriot. (You already know who keeps yelling this sh*t…I don’t have to tell y’all). So instead of relying on an old Q, the main event was birthed from some inspiration searching of backblasts from other cities, I found a DORA-cides format I thought I would tweak for the main event.
Thang 1: Partner DORA-cides
Partner 1 runs a 3-cone suicide (out and back to 3 progressively further cones) on a slightly inclined parking lot, to work in some sweet sweet hill action. When they get back, they have to perform a single “AND ONE!” burpee to take over from Partner 2.
Partner 2 is working on reps from the following March MADNESS script:
(Chalkboard correction: *Side Straddle Hops*)
On the fly, I modified the Elf on a Shelf to 100 reps. Those dudes ate too many cookies and seemed extra heavy. Everything was single count, no “in cadence” reps.
Rinse and repeat until all the reps were done. Pick up the 6 and help another team finish if you got done early.
Thang 2: 7’s
6 WWIII Big Boys to 1 Bobby Hurley
We traveled up the parking up to the furthest suicide cone between reps. Keep shifting until we got to 1 WWIII BB and 6 Bobby Hurleys.
Time was called basically exactly when we finished the 7’s.
“AND ONE!” was yelled out frequently. Fine I’ll name names….Focker and Holy Roller seem to really enjoy pain and this rule in particular. You have an idea of how something like this might work at a particular site, you think about who might be there, and you know before you even show up. But everyone was getting in on the action. I probably only called it twice myself. depends brought up a valid after-action point. The Stable might have been crickets on the optional “AND ONE!” callouts.
The playlist today was inspired by a concert I’m catching at the end of this month in Lexington. We had Fall Out Boy and their tour openers (Games We Play, Hot Mulligan, Jimmy Eat World). Mixed reactions from the crowd, as not everyone is still living in 2005 Warped Tour era like White Bread and myself.
COT
Announcements
Holy Roller has an event tomorrow morning in La Grange, check Slack for details. Come find your purpose.
Last Friday Lunch.
Convergence at Patriot on 4/20. Special message from Holy Roller to make it mean something. We are leaders in the community. Emphasis on supporting the fight against sex trafficking.
Intentions
Prayers for Swingset.
Prayers for Xerox has he undergoes a minor surgery that will keep him out of the gloom for a couple weeks.
Finished up with prayer: “Our Father.”
F3 Louisville 