{"id":2250,"date":"2017-08-28T14:17:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2017-08-28T14:18:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:18:16","slug":"school-is-back-in-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2017\/08\/school-is-back-in-session\/","title":{"rendered":"School is back in session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pax far and wide have mixed feelings about days like today . . . some are overjoyed that their 2.0s are back in school, others may be a bit sad that the sight of school buses is an indication that summer is drawing to a close (and that Meadowlark Drive near YHC&#8217;s homestead is going to be a morning\/afternoon cluster for the next month or so). \u00a0In observance of the first day of school, five Pax went downrange from the usual Leinbach Park stomping grounds to visit Thomas Jefferson Middle School. \u00a0Would they make the grade or be held back for some remedial work?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warm-o-rama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All IC . . .<\/p>\n<p>Side straddle hops<br \/>\n<del>Whirly&#8217;s got the Clap<\/del> Abe Vigodas<br \/>\nWhirly&#8217;s got the Clap<br \/>\nCopperhead squats<br \/>\nArm swirly things forward, back<br \/>\nJack Reachers<\/p>\n<p>Mosey to the track behind TJMS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tha Thang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starting at the corner of the track, do the Kindergarten exercise for 13 reps (13 years for K &#8211; 12), jog ~100 yards to next corner of track, First Grade exercise for 13 reps, jog to next corner, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>K<\/strong>indergarten &#8211; <strong>K<\/strong>raken Burpees<br \/>\n<strong>F<\/strong>irst &#8211; <strong>F<\/strong>reddie Mercury (IC)<br \/>\n<strong>S<\/strong>econd &#8211; <strong>S<\/strong>umo Squat (IC)<br \/>\n<strong>T<\/strong>hird &#8211; <strong>T<\/strong>urkish Getup<br \/>\n<strong>F<\/strong>ourth &#8211; <strong>F<\/strong>ist Bump Merkins<br \/>\n<strong>F<\/strong>ifth &#8211; <strong>F<\/strong>inger Tip Merkins<br \/>\n<strong>S<\/strong>ixth &#8211; <strong>S<\/strong>tagger Merkins L<br \/>\n<strong>S<\/strong>eventh &#8211; <strong>S<\/strong>tagger Merkins R<br \/>\n<strong>E<\/strong>ighth &#8211; <strong>E<\/strong>IGHTH (ABC ab style) (had to repeato grade b\/c YHC can&#8217;t spell)<br \/>\n<strong>N<\/strong>inth &#8211; <strong>N<\/strong>olan Ryans<br \/>\n<strong>T<\/strong>enth &#8211; <strong>T<\/strong>ravoltas<br \/>\n<strong>E<\/strong>leventh &#8211; <strong>E<\/strong>LEVENTH GRADE (ABC ab style)<br \/>\n<strong>T<\/strong>welfth &#8211; <strong>T<\/strong>ony Hawk Burpee<\/p>\n<p>Mosey to TJMS auditorium wall.<\/p>\n<p>The Pax were misbehaving, so they had to sit in the People&#8217;s Chair outside the principal&#8217;s office. \u00a0Then they got in trouble for doing Balls to the Wall, so they had to sit in the People&#8217;s Chair for a while longer.<\/p>\n<p>Mosey around the school, across the front to the picnic shelter for some more IC exercises.<\/p>\n<p>Dips<br \/>\nAlternating Step Ups<br \/>\nIrkins<br \/>\nDerkins<\/p>\n<p>Mosey back to Leinbach for some Mary.<\/p>\n<p>LBCs<br \/>\nMutton crunches, L\/R<br \/>\nLow flutter<br \/>\nAmerican Hammer<br \/>\nJuanita<br \/>\nHeels to Heaven<br \/>\nHillbillies<\/p>\n<p>FIN.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>YHC took us out sufficiently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer requests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prayers for Argyle&#8217;s older son who is having a bit of knee trouble.<\/p>\n<p>All the kids, parents, teachers, bus drivers, administrators, etc. who are heading back to school!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While we still have to get through Swiss Miss&#8217; birthday, Schmedfest 2018 is right around the corner!<\/li>\n<li>Give2Give &#8211; three more days! \u00a0Still time to <a href=\"http:\/\/f3nation.com\/2017\/07\/29\/give2give-august-1-31-2017\/\">donate<\/a> in support of F3 Expansion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NMM<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kotters to Torque . . . haven&#8217;t seen him in the gloom for a while, but he was in fine form today.<\/li>\n<li>Van Gogh was honorary co-Q today. \u00a0During Warm-o-rama, YHC called Whirlys, but Van Gogh started doing Abe Vigodas instead and the Q followed suit. \u00a0During the grade level bit, YHC said we&#8217;d just repeato the letter drawing of &#8220;EIGHT&#8221; and &#8220;ELEVEN&#8221; a few times for more reps, and he suggested adding &#8220;GRADE&#8221; instead. \u00a0#teameffort<\/li>\n<li>Hedwig doesn&#8217;t know what a low-hanging bridge is.<\/li>\n<li>We passed a few teachers who were entering TJMS at about 6 AM and wished them well. \u00a0It&#8217;s one thing to work out that early, but to be ready at that time to inspire a classroom of middle schoolers essentially all day, M-F is something else entirely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hope these first few weeks of school go well for all, and generally avoid Meadowlark except from 0530 \u00a0&#8211; 0615 on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n<p>SYITG,<\/p>\n<p>Red Eye<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pax far and wide have mixed feelings about days like today . . . some are overjoyed that their 2.0s are back in school, others may be a bit sad that the sight of school buses is an indication that summer is drawing to a close (and that Meadowlark Drive near YHC&#8217;s homestead is going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-outhouse"],"acf":{"q":"Red Eye","date":"08\/28\/2017","pax":"Hedwig (WB), Torque, Van Gogh, Argyle (WD), Red Eye"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","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\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}