{"id":26265,"date":"2026-01-08T12:07:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=26265"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:07:05","slug":"a-crazy-eight-for-crazy-eights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2026\/01\/a-crazy-eight-for-crazy-eights\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crazy Eight for Crazy Eights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8 elderly and borderline crazy pax showed up at Speas this Thursday to tackle Crazy Eights on the eighth day of the month\/year.\u00a0 Whereas it&#8217;s also YHC&#8217;s 2.4&#8217;s 22nd birthday, YHC didn&#8217;t have enough time to pull together a Pony-like theme surrounding Liberia, so reverted to using today&#8217;s date as a flimsy structure for this morning&#8217;s activities.\u00a0 After improvising the intro\/disclaimer, we proceeded to get it done and it went something like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warm-O-Rama<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SSH x24 IC<\/li>\n<li>IW x16 IC<\/li>\n<li>Copperhead Squats x8 IC<\/li>\n<li>Copperhead Merkins x8 IC, hold it<\/li>\n<li>Peter Parker x8 IC, hold it<\/li>\n<li>Parker Peter x8 IC, hold it<\/li>\n<li>Mountain Climbers x8<\/li>\n<li>Arm Swirly Things, Forward x8 IC, hold it<\/li>\n<li>Arm Swirly Things, Reverse x8 IC, hold it<\/li>\n<li>Seal Claps x8 IC, hold it<\/li>\n<li>Overhead Claps x8 IC, hold it<\/li>\n<li>Moroccan Night Clubs x8 IC, hold it<\/li>\n<li>Pony Pleasers aka Michael Phelps x8 IC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mosey to the bottom of the hill to where cardboard was waiting for us in front of the Rec Center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Thang, Part One:\u00a0 Crazy 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See featured image for diagram of this plan which featured a figure 8, comprised of 8 stops where the 8 pax performed 8 reps of the named exercise at each stop.\u00a0 Stops included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Burpees!<\/li>\n<li>Wide Merkins<\/li>\n<li>Ranger Merkins<\/li>\n<li>Carolina Dry Docks<\/li>\n<li>Burpees!<\/li>\n<li>Sumo Squats<\/li>\n<li>Monkey Humpers<\/li>\n<li>Alternating Side Lunges<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Between stations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When traveling northward:\u00a0 Bear Crawl<\/li>\n<li>When traveling southward:\u00a0 Lunge Walk (unless you&#8217;re @Boomerang whose bear has evolved)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We made it through 3 rounds of this craziness.<\/p>\n<p>Mosey to benches in front of Rec Center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Thang, Part Two:\u00a0 Mr. McConaughey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matthew McConaughey, in his book <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Greenlights,<\/span> tells a story about his dad who always said that biceps were just for show but triceps were the main arm muscles that got work done.\u00a0 F3 Austin&#8217;s @Aaaayyyy come up with a routine in Mr. McConaughey&#8217;s honor, called Mr. McConaughey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 dips OYO, 1 diamond merkin OYO<\/li>\n<li>6 dips OYO, 2 diamond merkins OYO<\/li>\n<li>5 dips OYO, 3 diamond merkins OYO<\/li>\n<li>4 dips OYO, 4 diamond merkins OYO<\/li>\n<li>3 dips OYO, 5 diamond merkins OYO<\/li>\n<li>2 dips OYO, 6 diamond merkins OYO<\/li>\n<li>2 dip OYO, 7 diamond merkins OYO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Thang, Part Three:\u00a0 Camila Alves McConaughy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In honor of Matthew&#8217;s M:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 box jumps OYO, 1 squatty potty OYO<\/li>\n<li>6 box jumps OYO, 2 squatty potties OYO<\/li>\n<li>5 box jumps OYO, 3 squatty potties OYO<\/li>\n<li>4 box jumps OYO, 4 squatty potties OYO<\/li>\n<li>3 box jumps OYO, 5 squatty potties OYO<\/li>\n<li>2 box jumps OYO, 6 squatty potties OYO<\/li>\n<li>1 box jump OYO, 7 squatty potties OYO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mosey back to launch<\/p>\n<p>No time for Mary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COT\/BOM:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>YHC took us out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FIN.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NMM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>@Burlap called YHC a #DW even before we could get through the disclaimer, simply because of the quarry blast posted as part of the preblast.\u00a0 He was also intrigued and inquisitive about why we weren&#8217;t hearing any advertisements during the tunes this morning via Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>@Superfly was intrigued and inquisitive about YHC&#8217;s poor decision to do a solo pre-run this morning before the main event.\u00a0 YHC wasn&#8217;t confident enough to call for an official TRQ Run Club, but got the 2 miler done anyway.\u00a0 #RunningIsStillStupid<\/p>\n<p>@GreenAcres was all bundled up this morning and was therefore hard to recognize with sleeves on.<\/p>\n<p>@Spamalot and @ThePonyExpress revolted and decided to mallwalk after about 1\/2 of a crazy eight circuit.\u00a0 They even took their mallwalk outside of the figure eight so they could denigrate YHC&#8217;s leadership in private.<\/p>\n<p>@D-Day was the spring chicken #WarBaby today.\u00a0 We really are getting older together.\u00a0 YHC was third youngest!<\/p>\n<p>@Boomerang was out front all morning, due in part to his bear being fully evolved&#8230;and also due to working through his frustration from Wake Forest wakeforesting last night.\u00a0 #SoberLifeIsTheBest<\/p>\n<p>#Cobains for some of the adult-oriented lyrics, courtesy of Jake Owen, Eminem and Drake&#8230;..thought you guys were certainly old enough that you&#8217;d heard some of those words before.\u00a0 #TheFourthF<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the playlist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pieces of Eight (Styx)<\/li>\n<li>Renegade (Styx)<\/li>\n<li>Eight Days a Week (The Beatles)<\/li>\n<li>Eight Miles High (Husker Du)<\/li>\n<li>Law and Order (Crazy 8&#8217;s)<\/li>\n<li>Johnny Q (Crazy 8&#8217;s)<\/li>\n<li>Eight Second Ride (Jake Owen)<\/li>\n<li>867-5309\/Jenny (Tommy Tutone)<\/li>\n<li>8 Mile (Eminem)<\/li>\n<li>8 (Divorce Culture)<\/li>\n<li>8 (Billie Eilish)<\/li>\n<li>8am in Charlotte (Drake)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Crazy Eights at TRQ - 1\/8\/26\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" 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