Skipping and Flipping at TIT

Skipping and Flipping at TIT

QIC: Green Acres

Date: 4-13-26

PAX: Greenspan, Palin, Wobegon, Chisel, Boomerang, Tammy (WB)

As Greenspan says, “At 60 (degrees), no need for sleeves.”  The Greens agree. YHC did a slow shuffle from home to Sherwood. Arrived to 2 cars but no guys yet. Soon Greenspan and Palin came sprinting in from their EC run. Joining in the next few minutes were Chisel, Wobegon, Tammy, and Boomerang. Time to Start!  Warmed up and stayed in front of the school for Dora Does a Flip:  100 WWII, partner skips to tree about 40 yards away. Palin has been a grownup too long I guess? As he asked for demonstration. 😂 I demonstrated skipping, and emphasized that hands are held low and extended out like a little girl. It is DORA after all. 🤨 It was fun. Next was 200 squats, partner still skipping. Last was 300 merkins, movement was jogging forward to tree, then backwards to return to partner. (For the literal-minded among us, there were no flips. The flip was doing the merkins last instead of first. Ok, Zima?!)

Next to basketball court for a Box of Silly Walks:  Q calls everyone over to the wrong side of the court, still wheezing from the merkins. Corrected myself and asked Pax to line up on the end line, and the confusion began. “End line?”  Toy soldier walk to other end line. Then tried to herd the cats to line up on the side line to complete the 2nd side of the Box with Crab Walk across the court. Tricep cramp for YHC halfway across but genuine concern from Palin cured me and talked me through it. 💙 Now the Pax has the Box concept locked in and lines up on the end line and we lungewalk the length of the court. Last side of the Box was Crawl Bear butt first across the court. Then to the pull-up bars. Four rounds of 10 pull-ups and 20 bench dips. (Spotted Greenspan doing standing dips, which I thought about calling but decided they’re too hard. Beast!)

Headed back towards Start, but along the way there’s a perfect wall for about 25 feet of Wall Ball Crawl. Heard “I don’t do that” discussion but I was upside down and face to the wall so not sure who has to return their participation trophies 🤷‍♂️😂. Had 9 minutes of Mary. We did a bunch of Mutton Crunch, Lo flutter, LBC, Big T for Taxes (it’s ok, Pony doesn’t read Backblasts).  Asked Greenspan how much time left, he said 2 1/2 minutes, and while I was thinking about when to do our Huck merkins, he just started doing dive bombers.  Soon to regret that a little. I called for plank position as we were waiting to get our Huck merkins done. Three HM later, DONE.

Announcements:  Workout at Samaritan Wednesday afternoons.  Dinner service by F3 pax April 20.  See General channel, Greenspan, or Drip and sign up.  GreeNest this Saturday.  YHC has Q at Purgatory April 18.  Palin has Redline Tues am.

This was a great group of HIM. Plenty of MC and laughs. Chisel, Boomerang and YHC were the pair of 3 for Dora. As Chisel and I were skipping, I said his patients would be impressed if he shared that he was skipping this morning. He said “they could probably do better skipping “ Maybe true since he’s a pediatrician, but he’s actually good at it. 😄 All put in hard work for what I hoped was a tough workout. Q was worn out. 🥵 Not sure if I was making good sense during my COT prayer. Tried to pray for peace in the world, aging parents and family members, job seekers, and making good decisions. Thanks for the keys Tammy!  Was happy to lead. F3 friends mean so much to me!  💙