WE ARE PLAYING CHESS OUT HERE BOYS! Haha.
I definitely had my doubts about today. Forecast showing 80-100% Chance of cold rain and no porticos in sight at The O. I asked if we should just move the beatdown to Mutt’s portico and apparently that was enough to rile up the locals. Thankfully Flo Jo hit me with that local HC and got me all fired up. I spent my Friday evening building an epic “rain” playlist.
Fast forward to this morning. I show up at The O and realize I have forgot my gloves and my speaker. So I have to give it the old meter maid treatment and play it from the phone itself. A couple of big fails right off the rip.
The team for the morning:
Masse’
EKG (R)
Handbook
Russdiculous
Crowdstrike
Flo Jo
One star
Brisket
Maytag
Montezuma
Depends
Steve-O (Q)
Brisket had my six with a pair of gloves, thankfully. We mosey over to a parking lot.
Action:
Warmup (SSH, GG, Imp Walkers, HB Walkers, down dog)
Active Warmup (open the door knee swings, close the door knee swings, butt kicks, high knees)
7s: Burpees -> Bonnie Blairs
Colt 45 Squats (15 high, hold 10 sec, 15 low, hold 10 sec, 15 full range)
We split into 2 teams for a couple of competitions
45# Jerry Can team race
Teammate #1: run with Jerry can to end of lot and back
Rest of team: they did something…maybe lunges?
45# Jerry Can high chin raise competition 45 seconds on, 15 seconds off
teammate #1: perform as many chin raises as possible in 45 seconds. Use 15 second downtime to rotate to next teammate and pick up count from there.
Rest of team: alternate air claps and air presses
Partnered up for DORA BLIMPS:
Burpees / Lunges / Imp Walkers / Merkins / Planks / Squats
Each partner did each exercise in AMRAP fashion while partner ran to other end of parking lot.
During the BLIMPS, I realized that I did in fact have a speaker, the Igloo cooler speaker. So we headed back to the car for some street action. Lined up for 3 rounds of sprints with a mosey return. Looking at the time, I would have typically just called for Mary but due to the wet ground conditions, I swapped Jerry cans for 60# sandbags. You can never be too prepared when you are running for Q of The Year…
So team 60# sandbag Squats was on the agenda. Each man got 45 seconds to crush squats with 15 seconds to rotate.
Finish with plank.
COR / NOR / Announcements / Intentions
It hit me when it was all over how good I had it today and definitely didn’t deserve it. The O’s royalty showed up in the gloom this morning to support the Q. Got some of The Stable’s finest to support the Q. We had a candidate for FNG of The Year out there supporting the Q. Even got F3 Louisville’s upcoming newest Site Q from Valley Station to support the Q. To me, the Q felt like a mess. No speaker, no neighborhood hill, no tennis court. If I learned anything, I learned to roll with the punches and don’t sweat the minor details. Had an absolute great 10/10 morning in the gloom with The O. I have to come back for a “Speaker Redemption Q” sometime when this ice melts…
Epic Quotes this morning:
“We are playing chess out here, not checkers” – YHC
“So you know he is up for Q of The Year right?” – Maytag
“Great Q Steve-O…even though…you know…” – EKG
-Steve-O
F3 Louisville 