Meet the new Q, same as the old Q

Meet the new Q, same as the old Q

QIC: Burns / Turnover

Date: 9.3.25 / 2.10.21

PAX: Lamb Chop (happy birthday!) (not actually), Schlitz (EC run), Palin (EC run), Greenspan (EC ruck), Turnover, Frostbite (WB), Green Acres (WD), Drip, Second City, Spicoli, Burns (QIC, EC run)

YHC, in the midst of 4 straight Qs, is not feeling very creative. The old adage, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” really does apply itself well to a F3 beatdown. When you’ve got something good, why bother adjusting? When someone else has something good, why take the time to come up with something new? When someone else designs a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad beatdown, what’s to stop you from repeating that very workout a mere 4.5 years later? Nothing new under the sun…

EC runners rolled back into the parking lot to find a lively crowd getting livelier by the minute. Some brief introductions were needed to acclimate Second City to those of us who missed last week as it was only his second Conspiracy post and 4th overall! By the time 0530 hit we were dangerously close to letting Palin talk his way through WoR. Something had to be done, so thankfully the level-headed Q was able to take control of the situation

WoR: SSH x15ic, Hillbillies x15ic, Whirlies x15ic, Michael Phelps x10ic. Much consternation about the lack of Abe Vigodas. Stretch on your own. Slighly less consternation about the “young man’s cadence” on the Hillbillies, but still a palpable amount of consternation.

The Thang: Not even adopted, just straight up copied from TO’s beatdown to celebrate Lamb Chop’s 30th birthday a full one thousand, six hundred and sixty-six days ago. Find the backblast from that morning here: Birthdays, Confusion, and Doe Urine. Lamb Chop wasn’t present for that beatdown so we had to make sure he felt loved and cared about today.

Mosey to the track. 30 merkins, run 100m. 30 squats, run 100m. 30 WWIIs, run 100m. 15 burpees, run 100m. Repeato.

Mosey to the base of the intimidator. 30 merkins, run to Carolina. 30 squats, run to Jersey. 30 WWIIs, run to Brookstown. 30 HR merkins, run to Carolina. 30 crunchy frogs, run to W. End Blvd. 30 burpees (crowdpleaser), run to the picnic tables.

At the picnic tables: 30 dips, 30 box jumps (or modify to 15 step-ups each leg) (or modify to 30 squatty pottys) (or just modify), 30 freddie mercs in cadence.

Back to launch for Mary by committee: Flight attendants (TO), Low flutters (Second City – flawless cadence & his first ever called exercise!), Heels to Heaven (Drip), Supermans (Schlitz), Protractor (Greenspan). Greenspan tried to get us to do some low dollys too but time was, unfortunately, up.

NMM. Where to begin? The Q was able to deflect most of the blame for the beatdown onto Turnover since he made it. That’s how this works, right? Palin had some of the same MC about Q creativity as he did 4.5 years back. Green Acres drove all the way down to Hanes Park only to regret that choice – in part from the beatdown and in part from the MC. Lots of little blue pill jokes. Spicoli hyped up the crowd upon his arrival. Schlitz wanted to put his hands under TO’s butt. All of our wives are not “all of our” wives. I’m honestly not sure if Lamb Chop felt celebrated or insulted by his birthday surprise.

More high quality observations – Second City is awesome and absolutely crushed the beatdown but apparently has friends who chose to introduce him to Zima (?) which led him to us here in the dash. Glad to have you out this AM! Drip has absolutely flawless WWII form. Greenspan is not 100% right in the knee (or in the ol’ mentals) but still gives 100%. The weather was also just impeccable…hard to beat high 50s in the morning.

Announcements a’plenty – YHC has WIB tomorrow at Reynolda Village. Frostbite has Distillery tomorrow for IPC week 0. Spicoli has this month’s installment of Impossible Situation on Saturday, and GreeNest pickup is after. If the furniture is really nice, take it to Lamb Chop’s house. Saturday 9/13 head south to help Frostbite, Narcan, Piggly Wiggly, and others get F3 Davidson County aka F3 PigCity off the ground, and sign up for a Q if you feel called to. F3WS is running the RAH! and setting up a tent to spread the word and keep #GivingItAway. If you want to run, sign up here: F3WS RAH!

CoT: Prayers for PAX, friends of PAX, or extended families of PAX who are expecting a new child. YHC took us out!

F&B, thanks for the keys. Pick them up from the front porch at the corner of W. End Blvd and Brookstown and apologize on our behalf, I don’t think they weren’t happy with us doing burpees there.