WVUM FM 90.5 Live On Location at Village Idiocy

WVUM FM 90.5 Live On Location at Village Idiocy

QIC: Starfish

Date: 11/17/2025

PAX: Drama Queen (WD), Boomerang, Starfish (QIC), Slowpitch, Wahoo, Blind Date, Zephyr, Tonka (WB)

Forgetting that the original Monday F3 Winston-Salem workout is now skewing much younger, YHC planned this workout around the college radio station from his high school days, WVUM FM 90.5 aka The Voice of the University of Miami, complete with a stocked playlist of alternative tunes from 1985.  40 years ago.  8 pax posted, but 5 of them were not even born when these tunes were first released.  Fortunately @DramaQueen and @Boomerang showed up and are “old enough”, but not sure how much they liked or appreciated the playlist.

Warm-O-Rama

• SSH x20 IC
• IW x15 IC
• Running with Scissors x20 IC (the young guns weren’t sure about this one either and began questioning their life choices this morning….)
• Hillbillies x15 IC
• Copperhead Squats x10 IC
• Copperhead Merkins x10 IC

Mosey to Jessie Village Drive parking lot

The Thang:  Live On Location with WVUM FM 90.5

At each corner, perform modified tabata (45 seconds on, 10 seconds rest) of 4 called exercises x 2 rounds

First corner

• Wide Merkins
• V-ups
• Upright Rows (with rocks)
• Mountain Climbers

Run 1.25 laps around the parking lot to second corner.

Second corner

• Wide Squats
• Village Idiots (debut exercise:  Hillbilly Left, Hillbilly Right, Lunge Left, Lunge Right, Carolina Dry Dock.  #NotABurpee)
• USA Hammers
• Merkins

Run 1.25 laps around the parking lot to third corner.

Third corner

• WWIIs
• Vertical Jumps
• Up-Downs (#NotABurpee)
• Monkey Humpers

Run 1.25 laps around the parking lot to fourth corner.

Fourth corner

• WMDs (Wide Merkin, Merkin, Diamond Merkin)
• Vacuum Cleaners (Partner Up, Wheelbarrow One Parking Space, 2 Partner-Assisted Derkins, Reverse Wheelbarrow One Parking Space, 2 Partner-Assisted Derkins, rinse and repeat.  #Crowdpleaser)
• Uppercuts
• Mike Tysons

Run back to launch (#ExtraInnings; #GivingYouYourMoney’sWorth)

COT/BOM:  YHC took us out

FIN.

NMM

The most challenging part of pulling this workout together was coming up with exercises that started with the letter “V”.  YHC even had to create a new exercise called the Village Idiot.  Tclaps to the pax this morning for helping to workshop this one.  @Tonka rightly noted that it is really a hidden burpee.  (#Shhhh).  @BlindDate and @Slowpitch were not impressed with the Q’s choice of busy parking lot corners to do our tabatas until they were reminded that sparking the #FightOrFlight response helped burn more calories.  @DramaQueen was super excited about the Uppercuts but was less excited about the playlist, even though he was born early enough to be alive for the original release of this music.  He said he had switched over the Country & Western (#BothTypes) music by then.  YHC tried to provide an appropriate challenge for @Zephyr, to no avail.  @Boomerang was happy to be there, just basking in the post-win afterglow of our Deacons against DQ’s tarholes.  (#4thBiggestRivalry)  @Wahoo took pity on YHC during the Vacuum Cleaners and dropped him after just the first round of reverse wheelbarrow/derkins  (#Tclaps)

Here’s the playlist, all from 1985 (aka YHC’s junior year in high school.  #40YearsAgo):

• Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) – Kate Bush
• Don’t You (Forget About Me) – Simple Minds
• In Between Days – The Cure
• Love Vigilantes – New Order
• She Sells Sanctuary – The Cult
• Life And How To Live It – R.E.M.
• Bring On The Dancing Horses – Echo & The Bunnymen
• The Headmaster Ritual – The Smiths
• What You Need – INXS
• Makes No Sense At All – Husker Du (this one was for @Spamalot who ended up #fartsacking)
• The Bottom Line – Big Audio Dynamite
• Bastards Of Young – The Replacements
• Bittersweet – Hoodoo Gurus
• Something About You – Level 42

Thanks for the honor and privilege of leading this morning.

Your friend,

Starfish