Freezing rain, lessons learned, and the number 14!

Freezing rain, lessons learned, and the number 14!

QIC: Organ Grinder

Date: 12.16.2020

PAX: Balco, Data, The Singing Cowboy, Toe Tag, Winklevoss, Manscape, Total Recall, BAM, Interference, Closer, Organ Grinder (Q)

After a 3-4 year hiatus from F3, today was YHC’s 14th week back with BnW being the only workout one not missed in that time (thanks for the consistent EH to a lot of PAX and to Tigger for getting the final HC from YHC).

11 determined PAX came out in freezing rain with no promise of staying dry and dry was not had be anyone. It was beautiful weather for us in the gloom- a wonderful 32˚ and a constant light rain that seemed to hit the face hard at times, almost like it was frozen. Being YHC’s kotters Q, there were some lessons learned:

1. Don’t try to get fancy with cardboard standing up on its own, it just gets blown away. Thanks to the PAX that had a little extra running during warm-o-rama to chase them down…
2. Definitely use permanent markers on the cardboard when it is raining- turns out the flip chart markers run and after 5 minutes turns into a $1.5 million painting, if I was famous.
3. Possibly think through not having on-the-back workouts when it is raining with puddles- nah, I would still do this one!
4. Turn off your bluetooth speaker before name-o-rama because if you don’t, nothing is actually recorded in the voice memo… Fortunately, I knew everyone’s name and have a pretty good memory, at times.

WARM-O-RAMA

We started out with two brand new exercises, promptly at 5:30 gloom:

• SSH x14
• IST x14
• Michael Phelps x14

If you haven’t noticed, this is where the number 14 begins to creep in.

THANG

Station #1 – KB Work

• Curls x14
• Skull Crushers x14
• Goblet Squats x14
• Overhead Press x14
• KB Swing x14

Run long way around parking lot to entrance.

Station #2

• Merkins x14
• WWII Sit Ups x14
• Hells to Heaven x14
• American Hammer x14
• Plank Jacks x14

Run to second light pole and back to kettle bells.

Repeato!

6:00 gloom – begin doubling each station.

MARY

6:13 gloom – BURPEES!!

DONE

COT

• Announcements
  • Toe Tag has the Christmas week BnW Q! No counting skills required.
  • BAM has greeNest Q this Saturday- contact him if you want to assist!
  • Make sure you check out Slack as the week gets closer to Christmas, some AO are switching times, etc.
• Prayer Requests
  • For everyone that has lost someone they have loved making the holidays rough and bittersweet.
  • Prayers that the vaccine is effective.
  • I think I missed one and I apologize.

YHC took us out.

NMM

• Toe Tag made a comment that it was dryer when we were running. Maybe so, but who doesn’t like laying on their back on asphalt in freezing rain?
• It was COLD- not sure if that was actually said, but when being wet and 32˚, it was cold.

Thanks for all the PAX that came out and supported my kotters Q!