{"id":19673,"date":"2022-06-21T22:23:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T02:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=19673"},"modified":"2022-06-21T22:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T02:23:22","slug":"2nd-successful-launch-from-the-launchpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2022\/06\/2nd-successful-launch-from-the-launchpad\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Successful Launch from The Launchpad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We succesfully established a great new AO at Oak Summit Park, #WeNoCo, #TheLaunchpad, and it&#8217;s got everything a growing F3Nation needs: a covered shelter with sturdy metal picnic tables, a quarter mile track with a field in the center, a baseball field, a steep hill, tennis courts (Site Q Burns&#8217; Rule: BEAR CRAWL ACROSS THE BRIDGE leading to tennis courts), rockets, spaceships, a control tower with pretty lights, slides and swings and all kinds of fun things!\u00a0 There&#8217;s probably more, but I don&#8217;t want to spoil it.\u00a0 I urge everyone to post after the July 4th Convergence.\u00a0 This was the 2nd post at The Launchpad, my 2nd Q, and I am looking forward to the future of The Launchpad.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s get into it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Chowda and I rode clown car style, and arrived early to see Bam coming in from a ruck for some EC.\u00a0 We swept and cleaned the warm-a-rama\/mary area to eliminate random gravel and any spent party paraphernalia.\u00a0 There was a strange mustang parker in the shadows, Van Gogh thought better than to provide an EH.<\/p>\n<p>530 started with <strong>Warm-A-Rama: In Cadence:<\/strong> 15 each of SSH, Imperial Walkers, Arm Swirlie Things forward and back, Jack Reachers, and Michael Phelps; 15 second Abe Vagoda, 15 Whirly with a Clap, 15 second hamstring stretch, and 15 second cross-over hamstring stretch with &#8220;Dangle&#8221;.\u00a0 Expect a lot of fun reactions after saying &#8220;Dangle&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mini-Mosey<\/strong> to the back of my truck, maybe 10 steps, to pick up 3 American Flags for planting as markers for the Dora.\u00a0 Then, <strong>The Real Mosey: <\/strong>past the Mustang, around a downed cedar tree to the 1\/4 mile track, and plugged the flags into the field at approximately 15, 25, and 35 yard intervals before we started <strong>4 Corners<\/strong> with 10 Merkins &#8211;&gt; Karaoke run with 10 merkins and 15 squats &#8211;&gt; Retro Run 100 yards with 10 Merkins, 15 Squats, and 20 Plank Jacks &#8211;&gt; Karaoke Run with 10 Merkins, 15 Squats, 20 Plank Jacks, and 25 hastily-decided-upon Mountain Climbers &#8211;&gt; <strong>The Usain Bolt Mosey\u00a0<\/strong>100 yard sprint to the beginning for\u00a0<strong>Dora: <\/strong>100 Merkins, 150 Squats, and 200 LBC with special fun added (Note* this is immediately met with complaints from PAX of &#8220;the field is wet&#8221;, and &#8220;Why? But, why?&#8221;, and random grumbles that YHC replied to with, &#8220;Modify as necessary&#8221;, and &#8220;Because I&#8217;m the Q.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0During Dora in ladder-form (which can be confusing for PAX) start to Bear-Crawl to the <strong>1<\/strong>st flag and Crawl-Bear back.\u00a0 Next, Forward Run to <strong>2<\/strong>nd flag and Retro Run back.\u00a0 Forward Run to <strong>3<\/strong>rd flag and Forward Run back.\u00a0 Follow that with Forward-Retro to 2nd flag, Bear Crawl &#8211; Crawl Bear to 1st flag, then Rinse and Repeat until Dora is complete.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uphill Mosey <\/strong>around\u00a0the track to the picnic table shelter for <strong>7 Layer Dip: 15 of everything: OYO: <\/strong>in dip position for Step Outs, DIPS, Cross-over hip flex, DIPS, Erkins, DIPS, in Erkin-form for burpee-esque jumps, DIPS, Parker Peters, DIPS, Peter Parkers, DIPS, Step up R Leg, DIPS, Step up L Leg, DIPS.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Start for <strong>MARY: in cadence:<\/strong> 15 Alabama Prom Dates (Burns said call them Davie County Prom Dates, but that&#8217;s where I&#8217;m from, and I don&#8217;t disagree as he is Site Q, but I renamed them Davidson County Prom Dates), 15 Mutton Crunches, and ended with splendid OYO Arods (according to the F3 Exicon, it is a combination of JLos &lt;-&gt; Pickle Pounders) and drew the expected reaction of humor followed by complaints of soreness to hip areas, which led to several rearks from PAX along the lines of &#8220;JLo wouldn&#8217;t have any problem doing these&#8221;, to, &#8220;Hey, Shakira is newly single.\u00a0 I think we should get her number to Chowda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number-rama: Van Gogh, Palin, BAM, Chowda, Skybridge, Burns, Greenspan, and YHC Transcript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcements:\u00a0Shmedfest<\/strong> 5k price has gone up to $35, all proceeds go to Crisis Control Ministries.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a <strong>Blood Drive in July.\u00a0 BAM has the Q at Redline Tuesday 6\/21<\/strong>.\u00a0 YHC has the Q at<strong> Bells N Whistles Wednesday 6\/22.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I totally boofed, and did not ask for prayer requests, rather, ended with a simple COT.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We succesfully established a great new AO at Oak Summit Park, #WeNoCo, #TheLaunchpad, and it&#8217;s got everything a growing F3Nation needs: a covered shelter with sturdy metal picnic tables, a quarter mile track with a field in the center, a baseball field, a steep hill, tennis courts (Site Q Burns&#8217; Rule: BEAR CRAWL ACROSS THE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":628,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"q":"Transcript","date":"06\/20\/2022","pax":"Van Gogh, Palin, Bam, Chowda, Skybridge, Burns, Greenspan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19676,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673\/revisions\/19676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}