WIB on Cherokee (Call the Campus Police!)

WIB on Cherokee (Call the Campus Police!)

Date: 1.8.26

PAX: Zephyr (WB), Cruiser, Van Gogh, Greenspan (WD)

Location:  Forsyth Tech – 1300 Bolton Street

0530:  Warmarama

Zima’s favorites.

The Thang:

Start at Forsyth Tech with burpees x 0.  Then run down Cherokee Rd.

Stop 1 – Cherokee & Drumcliffe

• Dive Bombers x 20
• Apollo Onos x 20 (DC)
• American Hammers x 20 (DC)
• Side-Straddle Hops x 20

Run back to Forsyth Tech
Burpees x 10

Stop 2 – Cherokee & Berwick

• Dive Bombers x 15
• Apollo Onos x 15
• American Hammers x 15
• Side-Straddle Hops x 15

Run back to Forsyth Tech
Burpees x 5

Stop 3 – Cherokee & Pinebluff

• Dive Bombers x 10
• Apollo Onos x 10
• American Hammers x 10
• Side-Straddle Hops x 10

Run back to Forsyth Tech
Burpees x 5

Stop 4 – Cherokee & Magnolia

• Dive Bombers x 5
• Apollo Onos x 5
• American Hammers x 5
• Side-Straddle Hops x 5

Run back to Forsyth Tech
Burpees x 5

Stop 5 – Cherokee & Pinebluff

• Dive Bombers x 10
• Apollo Onos x 10
• American Hammers x 10
• Side-Straddle Hops x 10

Run back to Forsyth Tech
Burpees x 5

Stop 6 – Cherokee & Berwick

• Dive Bombers x 15
• Apollo Onos x 15
• American Hammers x 15
• Side-Straddle Hops x 15

Run back to Forsyth Tech
Burpees x 5

Time.

Annoucements:

• 12-year anniversary on Saturday at Hanes Park / Impossible Situation.  0700 launch.

Prayer requests:

• Comfort for Plunger’s family on the death of his father.
• Rollback and M in Minnesota for her shoulder surgery.
• Childhood friend of VG’s M is in hospice care at the end of her life.

NMM:

• Amazing morning.  YHC had eyed this spot for a while as a potential WIB spot and finally pulled the trigger.  Despite the thorough pre-blast, YHC brought  a weinke and tossed it in the parking lot as a reminder of the exercises.  More on that (the weinke) later.
• Smallish crowd made for excellent second F.  Frostbite, though, was mentioned as being conspicuously absent.  Pax:  “Doesn’t he live around the corner?”  YHC:  “Yeah, but he’s got a puppy.”  Pax:  “Doesn’t the puppy need morning walks?”  YHC:  “ehhhhh….”
  • YHC had EHed several of the Conspirators at Hanes Park yesterday, but not one of them was able to make it out this morning.
• Cruiser is looking forward to some absurd adventure races (think 12-16 hour races).  He was overstating how far away he is from preparedness.
• Zephyr loves a new adventure.  He got out of his vehicle, took a look around the parking lot, and said, “This is a great parking lot for WIB!”  Ha!  We should use it for that sometime…if we are allowed back.
• Van Gogh was hooked by the proximity of the (temporary) AO to his house.  Perfect.  His chest and calves each grew three sizes larger today with all of the dive bombers and hills, so he can skip his weights at lunchtime.
• All in all, we concluded that we had run somewhere between 2.1 and 3.5 miles.  YHC called it “3+ with 400 feet of elevation gain”.  It’d be great if Apple and Garmin could combine the functionalities of their various wrist products to produce a device that dependably tells you the distance and elevation gain of a bootcamp workout.  Couple that with 75 reps of each exercise + 35 burpees, and it was a decent morning.
• About that weinke YHC had tossed into the parking lot.  Around 0900 this morning, YHC got a call from an unknown number.  Upon looking at the transcription of the VM, it became clear that Forsyth Tech campus police was looking for someone who had a left a threatening portion of an Amazon cardboard box in the parking lot.  YHC, having backed into the space, had his tags ran and was contacted.
  • Officer:  “Do you know anything about a box that was left in the parking lot this morning.”
  • YHC:  “Oh, yes, sir.  I do.  I’m so sorry I left it there.”
  • Officer:  “Well, the folks here are pretty nervous about some of the things written on  it.  ‘Dive Bombers’, ‘American Hammers’.  And it has today’s date on it.”
  • YHC:  “Yes, sir.  I’m so sorry.  We started a workout in your parking lot this morning, and I left it there by accident.”
  • Officer:  “Is this a military thing?”
  • YHC:  “Oh, no, sir.  I’m part of a men’s workout group.  We have workouts all over the area at 0530 each morning.  This morning is the WIB, ‘workout in a box’, workout, and it moves around each week.  I led this morning, and chose Forsyth Tech’s parking lot as a starting point.”
  • Officer:  “So, there was nothing threatening on the box?”
  • YHC:  “No, sir…at least not to the people at Forsyth Tech.”
  • Officer:  “….”
  • YHC:  “That was a joke….sir.”
  • Officer:  “What do you want me to do with your box?”
  • YHC:  “Oh, you can just toss in the trash.  I don’t need it.”
  • Officer:  “Okay….thank you for your time.”
  • YHC:  “Yes, sir.  I’m very sorry.”

Thank you, men, for your fellowship and push this morning.  It was everything YHC was hoping.

Zephyr, the keys were left with the weinke, so you’ll need to contact FT Campus Police.  Thanks for letting YHC lead.