A Crazy Eight for Crazy Eights

A Crazy Eight for Crazy Eights

QIC: Starfish

Date: 1/8/2026

PAX: @GreenAcres (WD), @Boomerang, @Superfly, @Burlap, @ThePonyExpress, @Starfish (QIC), @Spamalot, @D-Day (WB)

8 elderly and borderline crazy pax showed up at Speas this Thursday to tackle Crazy Eights on the eighth day of the month/year.  Whereas it’s also YHC’s 2.4’s 22nd birthday, YHC didn’t have enough time to pull together a Pony-like theme surrounding Liberia, so reverted to using today’s date as a flimsy structure for this morning’s activities.  After improvising the intro/disclaimer, we proceeded to get it done and it went something like this…

Warm-O-Rama

• SSH x24 IC
• IW x16 IC
• Copperhead Squats x8 IC
• Copperhead Merkins x8 IC, hold it
• Peter Parker x8 IC, hold it
• Parker Peter x8 IC, hold it
• Mountain Climbers x8
• Arm Swirly Things, Forward x8 IC, hold it
• Arm Swirly Things, Reverse x8 IC, hold it
• Seal Claps x8 IC, hold it
• Overhead Claps x8 IC, hold it
• Moroccan Night Clubs x8 IC, hold it
• Pony Pleasers aka Michael Phelps x8 IC

Mosey to the bottom of the hill to where cardboard was waiting for us in front of the Rec Center.

The Thang, Part One:  Crazy 8

See featured image for diagram of this plan which featured a figure 8, comprised of 8 stops where the 8 pax performed 8 reps of the named exercise at each stop.  Stops included:

• Burpees!
• Wide Merkins
• Ranger Merkins
• Carolina Dry Docks
• Burpees!
• Sumo Squats
• Monkey Humpers
• Alternating Side Lunges

Between stations:

• When traveling northward:  Bear Crawl
• When traveling southward:  Lunge Walk (unless you’re @Boomerang whose bear has evolved)

We made it through 3 rounds of this craziness.

Mosey to benches in front of Rec Center.

The Thang, Part Two:  Mr. McConaughey

Matthew McConaughey, in his book Greenlights, tells a story about his dad who always said that biceps were just for show but triceps were the main arm muscles that got work done.  F3 Austin’s @Aaaayyyy come up with a routine in Mr. McConaughey’s honor, called Mr. McConaughey:

• 7 dips OYO, 1 diamond merkin OYO
• 6 dips OYO, 2 diamond merkins OYO
• 5 dips OYO, 3 diamond merkins OYO
• 4 dips OYO, 4 diamond merkins OYO
• 3 dips OYO, 5 diamond merkins OYO
• 2 dips OYO, 6 diamond merkins OYO
• 2 dip OYO, 7 diamond merkins OYO

The Thang, Part Three:  Camila Alves McConaughy

In honor of Matthew’s M:

• 7 box jumps OYO, 1 squatty potty OYO
• 6 box jumps OYO, 2 squatty potties OYO
• 5 box jumps OYO, 3 squatty potties OYO
• 4 box jumps OYO, 4 squatty potties OYO
• 3 box jumps OYO, 5 squatty potties OYO
• 2 box jumps OYO, 6 squatty potties OYO
• 1 box jump OYO, 7 squatty potties OYO

Mosey back to launch

No time for Mary.

COT/BOM:  YHC took us out.

FIN.

NMM

@Burlap called YHC a #DW even before we could get through the disclaimer, simply because of the quarry blast posted as part of the preblast.  He was also intrigued and inquisitive about why we weren’t hearing any advertisements during the tunes this morning via Spotify.

@Superfly was intrigued and inquisitive about YHC’s poor decision to do a solo pre-run this morning before the main event.  YHC wasn’t confident enough to call for an official TRQ Run Club, but got the 2 miler done anyway.  #RunningIsStillStupid

@GreenAcres was all bundled up this morning and was therefore hard to recognize with sleeves on.

@Spamalot and @ThePonyExpress revolted and decided to mallwalk after about 1/2 of a crazy eight circuit.  They even took their mallwalk outside of the figure eight so they could denigrate YHC’s leadership in private.

@D-Day was the spring chicken #WarBaby today.  We really are getting older together.  YHC was third youngest!

@Boomerang was out front all morning, due in part to his bear being fully evolved…and also due to working through his frustration from Wake Forest wakeforesting last night.  #SoberLifeIsTheBest

#Cobains for some of the adult-oriented lyrics, courtesy of Jake Owen, Eminem and Drake…..thought you guys were certainly old enough that you’d heard some of those words before.  #TheFourthF

Here’s the playlist:

• Pieces of Eight (Styx)
• Renegade (Styx)
• Eight Days a Week (The Beatles)
• Eight Miles High (Husker Du)
• Law and Order (Crazy 8’s)
• Johnny Q (Crazy 8’s)
• Eight Second Ride (Jake Owen)
• 867-5309/Jenny (Tommy Tutone)
• 8 Mile (Eminem)
• 8 (Divorce Culture)
• 8 (Billie Eilish)
• 8am in Charlotte (Drake)

Sound off in the comments for any observations or happenings YHC may have missed.

Respectfully yours,

Starfish