{"id":22891,"date":"2023-12-21T10:45:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T14:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=22891"},"modified":"2023-12-21T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T14:45:05","slug":"a-psychotic-beatdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2023\/12\/a-psychotic-beatdown\/","title":{"rendered":"A Psychotic Beatdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I told the assembled PAX how my wife was talking to one of her best friends last night while I was writing my plan on cardboard. My wife told her friend how I have gotten up at 04:45 every morning this week. Her friend, who knows I\u2019m a teacher and knows I\u2019m off all week, started to have a real conversation with my wife about how I could be either psychotic or a serial killer (sounds like her husband needs to come join us!). So, I felt all warm inside when 5 other \u201cpsychotic\u201d men showed up in the gloom for a TRQ beatdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once the initial kinks were worked out with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/37i9dQZF1DX3YMp9n8fkNx?si=15c07a784c0843ff\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spotify<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (which, FYI, won\u2019t work on the school wifi), we made our way to the brick wall (not that one) surrounding the tree by the flagpole and proceeded to try a 7-layer dip (21 dips after each exercise in honor of the Winter Solstice):<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bulgarian squats (each leg)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1-leg step ups (each leg)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Squat jumps<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Electric chair (thank you, @Burns)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Side lunges<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We made our way through the parking lot while doing lunges and Apollo Creeds and moseyed the rest of the way to the rock pile. From there, I set up a 21-second tabata timer as we cycled 4 times through:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Curls &amp; overhead press<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bent over row &amp; bus driver<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chest press &amp; American hammer<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Heels to heaven &amp; Freddy Mercury<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To the wall (yes that one) for a wall sit and balls to the wall (you\u2019re welcome, GA). Back to the start for Mary in which I tried (and failed) to have the PAX do an exercise I can\u2019t remember the name of (it\u2019s not a dying cockroach, crunchy frog, or a gas pump). Finished with Superman &amp; banana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Announcements: convergence at Speas (probably?) on Saturday<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prayers for families, as Cowboy said, who have less chairs at their table this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NMM (which I still don&#8217;t understand what it means)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-Great to see Starfish out. I haven\u2019t worked out with you in a while and you said your knee has been bothering you. Hope it heals quickly to see you at the TRQ Run Club soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-Also nursing a setback was Bam, who showed up and crushed both the pre-run and the beatdown, despite still working his way through cough\/cold\/congestion\/sinus issues. Strong work!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-I invited myself (and you should, too) over to both Boomerang\u2019s family\u2019s Christmas dinner of Chilean sea bass and the next day\u2019s meal of brisket. Can\u2019t wait to join the fam!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-I didn\u2019t mention this to him, but I feel Green Acres and I have developed a new level of our relationship this morning when Cowboy noticed a figure running ahead of us. I was able to confirm it was GA, from 50 feet away <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the dark, solely by his running gait.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-Cowboy also accompanied me on the pre-run. He blames me, but every time I run with him, we ALWAYS manage to run the mile back faster. Thanks for always pushing me harder than I would on my own. Next time, I hope @Wild Thing can make it out! Here\u2019s hoping Santa brings you exactly what you want this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks for letting me lead this morning, GA. I\u2019ll keep my flashing light on for when you need me again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told the assembled PAX how my wife was talking to one of her best friends last night while I was writing my plan on cardboard. My wife told her friend how I have gotten up at 04:45 every morning this week. Her friend, who knows I\u2019m a teacher and knows I\u2019m off all week, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":591,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rock-quarry"],"acf":{"q":"Doublewide","date":"12.21.2023","pax":"Bam, Boomerang, Green Acres, Singing Cowboy, Starfish"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22891","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\/591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22893,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22891\/revisions\/22893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}