86, or Whatever You Want to Do

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86, or Whatever You Want to Do

Date: 4/15/24

PAX: The Singing Cowboy (EC), Schneider, Tonka, Ziggy Stardust, BooBoo, Spicoli, Turnover, Burns, Cruiser, Greenspan (Q)

Warmarama:

SSHs, Abe Vigodas, Whirlies, Cherry Pies

 

The Thang

Mosey to parking lot closest to Jessie Village Drive.  Each pax was handed a piece of chalk and told that we would be doing 5 exercises for the remainder of the workout + running.  This was an every 1.5 minute (90 seconds) on the 1.5 minutes workout.  At the start of each 1.5 minutes round, pax were to run to 43 yards down the parking lot and 43 yards back.  Fortunately, the parking lot was just the right length for this.  For the remainder of the 1.5 minutes, pax were to accumulate reps up to 86 for each of the 5 exercises in the order of their choice using the provided chalk to keep tally.  86 was the age of my dad, William Etheridge, when he died.  The exercises were:

  • Dive Bombers (Poppa loved old war movies)
  • Hill Billies (DC, Poppa’s name was William, or “Billy”, and he referred to himself as a “country lawyer”)
  • Floor Slap Jump Shots (Poppa loved basketball and played indoors hoops into his 80s; he had an amazing hook shot that he could hit from 20 feet out)
  • WW2s (it’s April)
  • TBD

6:10:  Mosey home for 1.5 minutes of low plank.

Finished.

Announcements:

  • Spicoli has the WIB Q on Thursday (“probably” Thruway) and GreenNest Q on Saturday.
  • Samaritan Ministries service opportunities are open for June – December.
  • Post-workout, YHC discovered that he has Redline Q tomorrow, so come out for that!

Prayer Requests:

  • Aging Parents, particularly Ziggy’s mother who entered hospice.

NMM:

  • Burns was a man unto himself this morning, choosing to plow through all 86 divebombers before moving on to the other exercises and leaving the rest of us in the dust on the runs from one end of the parking lot to the other and back. He’s still <30, for the record.  He also accused YHC of essentially saying, “Do whatever you want to” which was fitting considering my dad’s penchant for changing the rules, not so that he could win, but so that the game would go on longer.
  • Turnover did TO stuff, including goading YHC into a couple of sprints on the return trip up the parking lot, laughing while complaining, and overlayering up.
  • The Singing Cowboy allowed YHC to join him for the 2-mile EC run which provided great 2nd F and a faster pace than either of us wanted. #ISI  TSC was the only pax all morning YHC saw beat out Burns on any of the down and backs.
  • Spicoli arrived on Spicoli time, but hung around after the workout to reclaim clothing he had discarded/lost during the workout.
  • BooBoo appeared out of nowhere, arriving even later than Spicoli. The Tardy Brothers then cruised through the workout making it look easy.
  • Great to see Tonka this morning who I don’t think I’ve exercised with in over a year. He was being chauffeured by Ziggy.
  • Cruiser had kind things to say about the workout, which was surely flattery the way he sped through the reps.
  • Schneider, still on the IR, modified the runs to something akin to karaoke. Strong work just being out there with an injury, but then adding twist that was surely no easier than running.
  • Cherry Pie would have been extremely annoyed with the extended session of cherry pies.
  • As mentioned earlier, most of the pax chose to split up the reps for the different exercises; Burns chose to complete all 86 reps of one exercise before moving on.  Each pax is responsible for their own WW2 rep count, but you should call into question anyone over 86.  🙂
  • The TBD exercise was going to be WMDs. My dad would frequently add another element to the victory requirements in basketball if he was losing, e.g. instead of “four point lead & possession of the ball” it became “four point lead, possession of the ball, and a made three pointer.”  Since none of us were able this morning to complete the first four exercises, “Billy Rules” did not have to be exercised.

Thank you, Cruiser, for the opportunity to lead and to all of you guys for showing up each and every day.  It was a great way to re-enter after 2 weeks away.  TSC took the keys, sprinted away like the village idiot, and I can’t catch up with him.  Maybe he’ll bring them back next Monday.

For those interested, my Dad’s obituary is here:  https://www.davislittlefunerals.com/obituary/WilliamBilly-Etheridge

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