{"id":22991,"date":"2024-01-14T00:03:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T04:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=22991"},"modified":"2024-01-14T00:11:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T04:11:46","slug":"awkward-and-uncomfortable-at-purgatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2024\/01\/awkward-and-uncomfortable-at-purgatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Awkward and Uncomfortable at Purgatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undertow needed a Q this weekend, and YHC was available &#8212; we don&#8217;t know how many &#8220;nos&#8221; he received before he asked me.\u00a0 YHC was about to come up with some original twists on some old routines when I found an interesting workout from Feb 2023.\u00a0 So I recycled it:<\/p>\n<p>Warmorama<\/p>\n<p>SSH 20, Merkins 10, Squats 10, Running with Scissors 15(?), Nolan Ryans 10 each side, Windmills (fast Abe Vigodas) 10, Peter Parkers 10, and Toy Soldiers 10<\/p>\n<p>Line up in Alpha order of F3 name and let Q pair you up.\u00a0 Travel with partner to the portion of the AO which has its name derived from a Princess cruise ship.<\/p>\n<p>Partner dips 1 to 10, then 10 to 1.<\/p>\n<p>ROADBLOCK &#8212; choose one partner to crawl and one to bike &#8212; Biker stays and does Freddie Mercuries while crawler runs downstairs to left and bear crawls up the hill and returns.\u00a0 Celebrate with 12 partner handslap merkins.<\/p>\n<p>Line up by age and let Q pair you up.\u00a0 Travel with partner to the portion of the AO from which a Thursday workout gets its name.<\/p>\n<p>Choose one medium-to-large rock per pair.\u00a0 A bearcrawl pushes rock counterclockwise around circle while B runs around.\u00a0 When B gets to A, switch.\u00a0 Continue until rock makes one circuit.<\/p>\n<p>A continuous curls while B backward runs around circle and flapjack.<\/p>\n<p>A continuous skull crushers while B runs forward and flapjack.<\/p>\n<p>A continuous back bench crushers while B skips and flapjack.<\/p>\n<p>A continuous rock swings while B runs and flapjack.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate with 14 partner handslap merkins.<\/p>\n<p>Line up alpha by real last name and let Q pair you up.<\/p>\n<p>Travel with partner to southwesternmost playground.<\/p>\n<p>DETOUR &#8212; choose &#8220;Change of Latitude&#8221; or &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; as a pair.\u00a0 Former is 100 pullups as a team.\u00a0 Latter is 200 merkins as a pair.<\/p>\n<p>Partner Wheelbarrow about 20 yards and flapjack back.\u00a0 Partner push and flapjack back.\u00a0 Partner pull and flapjack back.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate with 16 partner handslap merkins.<\/p>\n<p>Line up by birthdate (Jan 1 to Dec 31) and let Q pair you up.<\/p>\n<p>Travel with partner to start of workout.<\/p>\n<p>Mary &#8212; I think we did LBS, Freddie Mercs, Low Flutters, Penguin Crunches, Mutton Crunches, Big Os.<\/p>\n<p>Finish with 18 partner handslap merkins.<\/p>\n<p>FIN<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>COT<\/p>\n<p>Greenest next Sat Jan 20.\u00a0 \u00a0Beverly running 46 miles for HOPE next Saturday.\u00a0 Monday&#8217;s MLK Run-N-Gun is at 7 am, while others are at usual 0530.\u00a0 See Transcript for GAS group and Shield Lock opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Prayers for recent losses, one of Splash&#8217;s patients, Bueller&#8217;s family, students traveling back to school and taking exams in high school.<\/p>\n<p>YHC took us out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NMM<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The title of this BB refers to the portion of the workout in which partners had to touch each others legs, chests, and hands.\u00a0 The PAX seemed to think the Q called this because F3 is the only place in his life in which he gets touched.\u00a0 YHC is not sure how they leaped to this conclusion.<\/li>\n<li>Woodpecker joined the last 15-20 minutes of the workout after finishing double digit miles on a run.\u00a0 Today is his birthday!<\/li>\n<li>Starfish miraculously made it to the workout after American Airlines flew him around a storm.<\/li>\n<li>Parkay is still in town but passed on the workout.\u00a0 He said it was because he wanted to sleep in, but he didn&#8217;t tell me until I told him that I was the Q.<\/li>\n<li>Tim the Greater was in fine form and echoed &#8220;skullcrusher&#8221; and &#8220;low flutter&#8221; superbly.<\/li>\n<li>YHC was glad to partner with Chowdah and we talked Pats head coaches.<\/li>\n<li>Transcript quietly worked his butt off.<\/li>\n<li>Bluto was nearly the WB but was beaten by about 25 years by Bloodsport.<\/li>\n<li>Green Acres did merkins during the Running with Scissors to protect his kness.\u00a0 He happily shared his NC rock with Boomerang, who was runner-up in the WD contest.<\/li>\n<li>Wobegon did great even with his foot in a boot.\u00a0 The Pax found the chalk outline of his body on the Lido deck.<\/li>\n<li>D-Day wasn&#8217;t very helpful at blocking the wind in the warm-up circle since he has lost some weight.\u00a0 He didn&#8217;t seem to mind.<\/li>\n<li>Lemming smoked YHC multiple times while running around the circle.<\/li>\n<li>Boomerang attended the Feb 2023 workout and made the same joke about &#8220;skipping&#8221; the skipping.\u00a0 #consistency<\/li>\n<li>Argyle enjoys the fact that he is a half-year older than me.\u00a0 Or he dislikes it.\u00a0 YHC is not sure due to his lack of understanding non-verbal cues.<\/li>\n<li>The Singing Cowboy was fortunate enough to not to spend much time near YHC as we seem to distant on F3 names, age (somewhat close), real last names, and birthdays.<\/li>\n<li>Undertow is looking for February Qs for Purgatory &#8212; he hasn&#8217;t asked YHC, somehow!<\/li>\n<li>And this is the weekend of THE Pony Express, as his M is out of town at a baby shower.\u00a0 In addition to watching TV and eating a block of cheese, Pony plans to wire an electrical outlet by his deck against the advice of the absent M.\u00a0 What could go wrong?<\/li>\n<li>YHC called the last Mary exercise (the big O) &#8220;in honor of the great state of Oklahoma&#8221; to butter Starfish up and irritate Pony.\u00a0 It had the desired effect as Pony began singing a Texas fight song, and Starfish tried to sing over him throughout the exercise.\u00a0 Fun times.<\/li>\n<li>At Coffeeteria, Starfish, Boomerang, and Splash tried to corrupt Bloodsport and convince him to drink alcohol in Europe.<\/li>\n<li>I think some other funny things happened but it&#8217;s late and I am old.\u00a0 Use comments to add.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honor to lead you all,<\/p>\n<p>Burlap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undertow needed a Q this weekend, and YHC was available &#8212; we don&#8217;t know how many &#8220;nos&#8221; he received before he asked me.\u00a0 YHC was about to come up with some original twists on some old routines when I found an interesting workout from Feb 2023.\u00a0 So I recycled it: Warmorama SSH 20, Merkins 10, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bootcamp","category-purgatory"],"acf":{"q":"Burlap","date":"13 Jan 2024","pax":"Woodpecker (now an aye), Bloodsport (WB), Wobegon, Bluto, Lemming, Transcript, Chowdah, Green Acres (WD), D-Day, Boomerang, Argyle, Starfish, Pony Express, The Singing Cowboy, Splash, Undertow (site Q), and Burlap (QIC)"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22991","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\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22994,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22991\/revisions\/22994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}