8 Years of Proving Zima Wrong

8 Years of Proving Zima Wrong

QIC: Wobegon

Date: 6-3-2025

PAX: Van Gogh, Zima, Bagpipe, Lamb Chop, Spicoli, Rollback, Cherry Pie, Drip

Years ago, Hop and D-Day evaded the careful eyes of the guard stationed at the Wake Forest gate and picked YHC up to go to this workout thing that Hop kept pressing me to check out. I was curious about the non-traditional faith gathering aspect and knew some exercise would do me good. I had no idea.

Flatline was an early challenge, and it took me longer than it should have to read the schedule to understand that it was a different flavor of Bootcamp (“Man, why is that Tuesday workout always so much harder than the Thursday one at Speas?”). S0, celebrating the F3-aversary there seemed like a good call.

While my foot is still getting back to 100%, I needed a high-tempo BootCamp with lower running. Here you have it:

Station 1:

30 Mountain Climbers

50 Freddy Mercs

20 Merkins

30 Skaters

50 squats 

20 merkins

30 plank jacks

50 reverse lunges  

20 dry docks

30 American hammers 

50 seal claps 

20 shoulder taps

When done, keep moving till the 6 is up.

Mosey down to Station 2 at the other end:

50 Squats, 10 Crunches, 50 High Knees

40 Squats, 20 Crunches, 40 High Knees

30 Squats, 30 Crunches, 30 High Knees

20 Squats. 40 Crunches, 20 High Knees

10 Squats, 50 Crunches, 10 High Knees

Same deal, now over to Station 3:

50 Alt Lunges, 10 Walkers, 50 Fast Feet

40 Alt Lunges, 20 Walkers, 40 Fast Feet

30 Alt Lunges, 30 Walkers, 30 Fast Feet

20 Alt Lunges. 40 Walkers, 20 Fast Feet

10 Alt Lunges, 50 Walkers, 10 Fast Feet

The timing was pretty solid, which I did not expect. I was sure there would be some improvising to fill the full 45 minutes. I guess I learned something in 8 years of posting and Qing.

COT:

• VG’s friend is going through a variety of tough issues
• Pax dealing with family challenges
• Those struggling with addiction

Drip has High Life tonight and is looking for the double-down. There is a mud run this weekend you can join Zima and his kids for.

As I shared, I don’t know what I expected when I posted for the first time, but it was not what I got. It’s too much to go into here, but I have immense gratitude for everyone who makes this crazy cult happen each day. Zima and I don’t have a ton in common other than height (I mean, he’s a Yankees fan and I assume he does not have strong opinions on the best Starfleet captain or which pickups get the best sound out of a vintage Telecaster*), but we both doubted that YHC would stick with F3. But here we are.

Thank you all.

*it’s Picard and ’58 style single coil