Summertime High Life

Summertime High Life

Date: 6.11.25

PAX: Zephyr, Brown Bag, Hot Dish, Rose (FNG Alex), Bagpipe, Wobegon, Frostbite, Spicoli, Rust Bucket, Greenspan

Late afternoon summer heat and humidity greeted the ten of us who gathered for High Life, including our FNG, Rose!

VI Warmarama:

• Mosey to amphitheater to get out of busy parking lot.
• SSHs, Hammy stretches, Up/Down Dogs, Calf Stretches, Abe Vigodas, Whirlies, Cherry Pies.

The Thang:

Partner up for AMRAP triplets.  Partner A performs one exercise AMRAP while Partner B runs to defined point and back.  Flip Flop.  Move to next exercise.  Repeato.

• Round 1: Merkins, Squats, WW2s, Run around lower island
• Round 2: Seal Clap / OH Clap Combo, Lunges, Heels to Heaven, Run to top of amphitheater hill and back
• Round 3: Jack Reachers, Monkey Humpers, Glute Bridges, Run to lower bridge and back
• Round 4: Dips, Lt. Dans, American Hammers, Run to lower bridge and back

On your six, still in the amphitheater, for 3 minutes of Mary:

• Dying Cockroach
• Mutton Crunch L/R
• Low Dolly

Finished.

Announcements:

• Need 3 servants for Samaritan Ministries on Monday night (6/16); reach out to me or Drip.
• Q School is Saturday, at Alcatraz, 0700. Great for anyone prepping for their first or one hundredth Q.

Prayer Requests:

• Spicoli’s 2.0 Chitchat traveling with his mother.
• Frostbite’s M’s grad school applications and discouragement.
• Van Gogh’s M’s mother and family.

YHC prayed us out.

NMM:

• FNG Alex was invited out by Zephyr. Alex is from Greenville, NC, attended NC State, works for Hanes, interested in supply chain/logistics, favorite cereal (which he doesn’t eat) is Cheerios, played double-bass in orchestra, favorite color is red.  Bagpipe did a great job gathering intel on our FNG during the workout.  Ideas discussed were DHL, Briefs, Fruit of the Loom, and Pocket Fly.  When Alex was asked where he went to high school in COT, he quickly, but unwisely, responded with DH Conley.  Conley’s in-town rival was Greenville Rose.  So, Rose won the day.  Welcome, Rose!
• Dips while your partner ran was a bridge too far.  #Pain.
• YHC was partnered up with the aforementioned Zephyr who was making mincemeat of the exercises in each round. During the running portion, Brown Bag was continually pouring it on, making YHC run faster than desired.  #ISI.
• Both Zephyr and Brown Bag recently returned from trips to Europe. One was in Italy and one was in Scandinavia.  Neither showed signs of jet lag.
• Bagpipe showed up as we were moving to the amphitheater from the parking lot. Most people are either morning people or night owls.  Bagpipe is both.  Dude just dominates.
• Glad to have Spicoli join us, and it was the second beatdown the two of us shared together this week. He’s such an encouragement to me and others.
• Rust Bucket often flies under the radar, perhaps due to his here two months, gone to New York two months routine, but our double-respect is a monster. He related to us that F3 workouts are sparse in the Yankee-land and that he once drove an hour to a workout that only he posted to.  Sounds like he’s applying for one of the coveted unpaid F3 employee positions as a region planter.
• Both Wobegon and YHC had hopes that our 2.0s would join the fun tonight, but both declined. Alas, there’s always next week.  Wobegon is running again after taking a bad step a couple of weeks ago, much to the relief of his Ragnar team.
• Frostbite was spicy tonight, first during the workout when the Q demanded that he not do the runs due to his ongoing foot issues and then during COT when he was very impatient to get through the important tangents the pax journeyed down. Maybe it was missing his M off traveling, maybe it was the impending handoff of the keys to High Life.
• Which brings us to Hot Dish! He is taking the keys of the High Life from Nantan next week after consistently posting for a year.  Looking for a big turnout for the transition!

Thanks, Frosty, for the keys.  It’s always great to exercise in my back yard.