Cup Check, or Return of the Hurpee

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Cup Check, or Return of the Hurpee

Date: 11.14.25

PAX: Zesty, Slowpitch, Wobegon, Tammy, Burns (EC), Mohican (fng Jon Bolin), Starfish, Frostbite, Bevo, Gilligan, Lamb Chop, Drip, Greenspan

Burns took YHC on the “flattest downtown route” pre-workout.  More on that to come.  When we arrived back, the crowd and excitement were building at Bailey Park.

Warmarama

SSHs, Abe Vigodas, Whirlies, Up/Down Dawgs, Cherry Pies

The Thang:

Mosey to 5th street parking deck.  YHC had deposited weinkes at opposite ends of the bottom level on the drive in.  At bottom of parking lot, complete upper or lower body exercise as the weinke instructs, then run up to the other end of deck and complete ab exercise as instructed.  Each time, repeat the previously completed exercise(s) in addition to the new exercise.  First exercise x 5 reps and increase by 1 rep and 1 exercise on each successive round.  So, the third round would have consisted of 3 exercises, all x 7 reps.

Bottom (Trestle):

  • Up and Unders on the Trestle x 5
  • Lt. Blairs (Squat + Jumping Lunges) x 6
  • Dive Bombers x 7
  • RDLs (DC) x 8
  • Apollo Onos (DC) x 9
  • Carolina Dry Docks x 10

Upper:

  • Flight Attendants x 5
  • P90X V-Ups x 6
  • Dying Cockroaches x 7 (DC)
  • Single-Legged Glute Bridges x 8 (DC)
  • American Hammer x 9 (DC)
  • Mutton Crunch x 10 (DC)

6:10 – Mosey home.  At the waterfall, time for the cup check.  Hurpees (Burpee + 3 x Merkins) x 10, then SSHs until time is called.

Fini.

Announcements:

  • Backyard Ultra at the Speakeasy (Zima’s backyard) will be November 23rd! Come run 1 lap, 5 laps, 0 laps.  Great way to pre-burn your Thanksgiving calories.
  • GreenNest is Saturday. See Starfish and/or Boomerang to move some Christmas Crap Cheer!
  • Samaritan Ministries – next Monday 11/17. We need 4 pax to join up with Drip and Frostbite.
  • Lunch bunch is today, back at Bailey Park.

Prayer Requests:

  • Rollback’s M. See Slack for an update.
  • Burns’s MiL with leukemia. First treatment of chemo was considered a success, but work still ahead (thus prayers needed).
  • Local food banks are empty. Be a HIM and throw a couple of cans of food in your cart & stop at one of the local pantries / lockers.
  • Celebration of Frostbite’s and M’s 5th anniversary and Starfish’s M’s 60th Think about that for a second.

NMM:

  • Our FNG, Jon Bolin, grew up in Colombia and attended Piedmont Christian / Carolina University where he played soccer and befriended Chomper, a “runner”. He has served as a missionary in Moldova.  He has three girls who play basketball & soccer.  He’s a member at Salem Pres and was EHed by Gilligan and Frostbite.  Names / themes tossed around were wives of Colombian drug lords, Bond villains from Moldova, Abraham Lincoln (due to facial hair pattern), and Daniel Day Lewis.  DDL led us to Mohican, which, as Starfish proclaimed, is a “badass name”.  Welcome, Mohican!  Dude did not seem fazed in the least by the prescribed plan.
  • As mentioned at the top, Burns somehow Lucied YHC into being Charlie Brown again and getting up to run the “flattest route downtown.” I can think of 16 other routes that are flatter, but that’s not the main point here.  The big deal is that, as we are coming up 4th street between Broad and Marshall, Burns relays a story about the worst first date he’s ever heard of (possible urban legend).  Summary:  Dude asks girl out.  Girl says yes.  Then dude says come over to my place and we’ll do frozen pizza.  Dude puts frozen pizza in the oven and sits down to watch TV.  Girl is just…there.  Oven alarm goes off.  Dude stands up and says, “This is the part I hate the most.”  Then dude reaches into the oven and pulls pizza out barehanded.  Burns compared that story to how he feels whenever he gets on 4th  “This is the part I hate the most.”
  • Strong work all around. Starfish and Lamb Chop paced us today.  Starfish is recorded on the COT as saying, “T-claps, great beatdown.  Except for that last thing.”  And that was the point.
  • The waterfall at Bailey Park came on while we were in the parking deck. YHC saw that many of the pax were moving their mouths when YHC called for the Hurpees, but couldn’t hear them.  We’ll assume that it was all flattering.
  • Drip was our resident medical professional today and all medical issues were to be forwarded to him. Ironically, the only injury sustained was YHC banging his head on the trestle while doing up and unders.
  • Bevo neglected to do the SSHs and then ran off when we commenced Abe Vigodas. What did I say?  His MC throughout was strong.
  • Great to see K-Ville pax Gilligan out in the Dash. The regional dialect of exercises, e.g. “Mutton crunch”, was obviously disorienting for him, but he crushed the workout.
  • Slowpitch and Tammy were also destroyers of the weinke. Might need to page VG, Zima, or the hurpee creator himself, Huckleberry, to crack those guys.
  • Zesty: “Where Schlitz?!  I came for the laughs!”  Not really, fake news.  Zesty went beast mode without the distractions of our 2nd F Q..
    • Speaking of: Schlitz is a beast. He ran into OGs from Debean.  Palin gave him a ride back to Bailey Park where he taunted the non-runners.
  • Sadly, Spicoli didn’t make it. Being the honorable Q and pax that he is, he requested the burpee penalty from Slackbot.  Alas, the response was 90 reps.    I’ll drop off the keys later since you’ll be busy with those.

Great job, all.  Have a great weekend.