Woodpeckering

Woodpeckering

Date: 1.30.26

PAX: Chisel, Palin, Spicoli, Burns, Tammy, Root Canal, Woodpecker(!), Wobegon, Turnover, Greenspan

Nine pax braved the (still) iced over roads of W-S to gather for a week’s worth of exercise in one 45-minute period.  They at least got what they paid for.

Warmarama

The normal, inevitably leading Root Canal to do some burpees.

The Thang:

• Mosey [carefully] to the 5^th Street parking deck and up the ramp to discover a weinke.
  • Every three minutes, a timer would go off and pax would run to bottom of first level, perform pull-ups Lt. Blairs x 2. Then run back up the ramp and accumulate 25 reps of each of the following.  If the timer goes off in the middle of an exercise, pick back up on the rep count when you return.
    • Burpees, Squats, H2H, Dive Bombers, Lunges (DC), Low Flutters (DC), Carolina Dry Docks, Side Lunges (DC), Alabama Glute Bridges, Diamond Merkins, Star Jumps, Hillbillies (DC), Merkins, R(omanian)DLs (DC), Toe Touches, WMDs, Lt. Blairs, Triple Bears.
  • Mosey home for 4 minutes of Mary.

Announcements:

• Beverly’s 48 miles for HOPE is (re)scheduled for Saturday, 2/7/26.
• Van Gogh has UA next week. He’ll make you crawl bear up the hill in the snow (if there’s any left).

Prayer Requests:

• Palin’s MiL has a follow-up appointment today for some concerning biopsy results.
• Madoff as he departs Dashland for Louisiana.
• Aging parents.

YHC took us out lifting up those items mentioned.

NMM:

• Woodpecker made a special bootcamp appearance, laid the hammer to the wood all morning, and generated a new phrase: “Woodpeckering:  when one looks around at the exercises that others are doing and chooses one (or none) of those exercises to perform himself, regardless of prior instructions from the Q.”
• Death, taxes, Palin (and / or Lamb Chop) yammering, and good-natured ribbing of Turnover’s winter gear (utilized 11 months of the year) would be on Ben Franklin’s list today of universal constants were he alive. The pax were treated to new details on the dresser drawer that TO and his M keep their shared leggings in.
• Thistle Counting accusations were launched amongst the pax, which led to YHC asking Root Canal if he had talked with the dearly departed pax of yore. “No, he’s ghosting me.”  Thistle, if you’re reading this, call RC.
• Star Jumps are tough when you start piling them up.
• Neither Chisel nor Tammy uttered a word all morning, but they were out front.
• There was a strong coffeeteria showing afterwards at DeBeen where the conversation included the heat that meteorologists are taking for being so wrong, so consistently, and local legend Lanie Pope’s clap back on Facebook. Rumor is there’s a photo of her with a younger Schlitz wearing short shorts (Schlitz, not LP) floating around somewhere.
• Burns’s favorite movie is Monsters, Inc, and he texted a screenshot of the weather this morning of “23 degrees, feels like 19 degrees”. 2319 is code in Monsters Inc “to indicate that a monster has come into contact with a human object, specifically a white sock, which is considered a contamination. This humorous scene highlights the monsters’ irrational fears about human items, symbolizing misunderstandings between different worlds.”  The more you know.  Quote was AI-generated.
• Upon hearing the instructions, Wobegon sagely asked, “Are you sure about this?” Wobey was so happy to be out and about with more seasoned guys after a week’s worth of absorption of adolescent attitude, angst, and 6-7 mania.
• The great calligrapher Palin critiqued the similarities of YHC’s “D”s and “O”s on the weinke, asking why lunges, low flutters, and other exercises had “OC” written beside them. “Did those exercises get imported from California [the OC]?  What was the tariff on those transactions?”
• Most pax worked their way through the weinke up to the WMDs at which point some pax appeared to die and others appeared to lose the ability to read the cardboard (must by YHC’s calligraphy again).
• As we were exiting the deck to return to launch (ca: 6:09), Spicoli entered the deck which goes to show that it’s never too late to show up for a workout (unless it’s after 6:15). Great to have him join us for the final minutes of the morning.
• Post-COT, there was a verbal altercation at Bailey Park between an F43 member parked in a no-parking zone and a truck driver. Truck Driver:  “I’m calling the cops because it should be illegal to be this stupid.”  Funny, but it was pretty serious for a moment.

Thanks for coming out, guys.  Be safe this weekend.