A Restless Edition of BNW

A Restless Edition of BNW

QIC: Burlap

Date: 27 MAY 2026

PAX: Bluto, Interference, The Singing Cowboy, Starfish, BAM (site Q and Irish Goodbye), Airbag (WB), Lemming, Manscape (WD)

Humid late spring morning with temp of about 68 degrees and 8 seasoned PAX joined YHC.

The THANG:

Warmorama four minutes – SSHs, ISTs, Alt lunges, arm swirlies, then claps.

Set 1   Swings (one minute and same for all exercises in Sets 1-6 below)

Curls

Merkins

Right leg lunges

Upright rows

75 second run on Wink’s loop

Set 2  Deadlifts

Skullcrushers

Peter Parkers

Left leg lunges

Bent over rows

75 second run on Wink’s loop

Set 3   OH press

Renegade rows right

Goblet Squats

Mountain climbers

Cardigans

75 second run on Wink’s loop

Set 4   Clean and press right

Renegade rows left

Monkey humpers

Curls

Greg Louganis

75 second run on Wink’s loop

Set 5   Clean and press left

Lawn mower right

Merkins

Right leg lunges

Bus drivers

75 second run on Wink’s loop

Set 6   Swings

Lawn mower left

Low flutters

Left leg lunges

Bent over rows

75 second run on Wink’s loop

Mary — LBCs, Big O, and Freddie Mercs

FIN

COT

• Starfish has Urban Assault on Friday, the day of Interference’s birthday.
• Prayers for TSC’s daughter-in-law and her family a while after birth of their child
• Prayers for Starfish’s 2.0
• YHC took us out asking for comfort and peace and expressing thanks for accountability and F3.

NMM

• YHC believes that TSC and BAM did the pre-workout ruck.  The Q ignored the invitation (read: pressure) from TSC that the Q traditionally does the ruck; YHC was afraid of being too gassed in the 45 minute beat down.
• Lemming joined about 3 minutes into the 4 minute Warmorama and did some SSHs on his own to catch up.
• Workout was Tabata-timed to just over 46 minutes.  Once the clock started, there was no planned rest unless you ran Wink’s loop in under 75 seconds.  YHC was about the slowest one on the first loop and just got back at 75 seconds, and we got a little slower as a group.  So there was no built in rest/recovery for the whole 45 minutes other than transitions from exercises to the next one.
• YHC designed this in order to: a) make the workout hard on strength endurance and b) to keep everyone from having to count.
• Bluto provided Bell and Butt transportation to Interference, at least on the drive home.
• TSC was way out front on the 2nd or 3rd run; he was more patient on the last couple of runs.
• Starfish was toward the front or way out front on all runs.  He also supplied the powerful speaker.
• BAM silently slipped away about half-way through to make it to work obligations.  He was called out by PAX who noticed.
• Airbag loves getting up early to drive 2.0s to swim practice across town.
• Lemming wanted to make sure we balanced the right and left sides.  Good thing that he mentioned this late in workout because YHC had inadvertently left off the lawn mower left exercise from the 6th set!
• Manscape continues to power through these early morning workouts even in retirement.  Triple respect.
• The playlist was from a Spotify list that I have compiled (and used once before at TRQ) that includes only songs that I know and like that are focused on cities or at least reference US cities.  I let it spin randomly but remember songs about
  • Atlanta (B-52s)
  • Clarksville (The Monkees)
  • Philadelphia (Elton John)
  • San Fransisco (Journey)
  • Wichita (Glen Campbell)
  • Allentown (Billy Joel)
  • Austin (Blake Shelton)
  • NYC (Frank Sinatra)
• As an aside, there are a surprising number of songs about various American cities, many of which are in Texas — especially Country songs.
• This workout was tough on YHC, and I hope the other 8 Pax got their money’s worth.
• Speaking of money, a few of the Pax offered to take up a collection to pay for premium Spotify so we won’t have to listen to ads on my next Q.  YHC refuses to pay for it.  Shocker.
• YHC expected to see Balco at BNW due to proximity to his home.  But he was spotted running on Shattalon Drive at 0630.  I guess he didn’t want to put up with my Q.  We used to be friends (sniff).

Seriously, YHC appreciates the opportunity to be among the PAX and to lead the workout this morning.

Peace,

Burlap