{"id":27144,"date":"2026-07-22T11:45:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=27144"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:45:59","slug":"shooting-the-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2026\/07\/shooting-the-breeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting the Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hint of a breeze greeted YHC during the RIRO from Mi Casa across Miller Park for the double-down after getting my butt kicked by Resistor at Redline in the gloom.\u00a0 Upon arrival at launch, Hot Dish was found waiting, enjoying the AC of his new truck.\u00a0 He reluctantly emerged and remarked, \u201cOne of these nights, I\u2019m going to pull site-Q privileges and we\u2019re going to go get dinner.\u201d\u00a0 Tonight was not that night.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Warmarama:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We moseyed the short distance to the covered AARP area.<\/p>\n<p>SSHs, Abe Vigodas, Whirlies, Stretchy Stretches, Hamstring Stretches, Cherry Pies<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>The Thang:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>YHC had not visited the exicon in a minute and found an interesting routine:\u00a0 MABAta (<a href=\"https:\/\/f3nation.com\/exicon?entryId=exicon-1767887914624-mabata\">https:\/\/f3nation.com\/exicon?entryId=exicon-1767887914624-mabata<\/a>).\u00a0 Essentially, do a set number of reps per minute, then another exercise for the remainder of the minute.\u00a0 YHC chose pull-ups because\u2026.there were pullup bars.<\/p>\n<p>EMOM \u2013 5 pullups, then ISTs for remainder of the minute.\u00a0 Do this for 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>We then moseyed along the creek path to the amphitheater for B.O.M.B.S.\u00a0 All exercises x 10.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Burpees, Overhead Claps, Merkins, Big Boy Situps (WW2s), Squats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Continuing our mosey around the south side of the park and then to the upper circle to find a picnic table for 7s.\u00a0 Partner A = 1 dip, partner B = 6 squats.\u00a0 Continue until Partner A does 6 dips, Partner B does 1 squat.<\/p>\n<p>Then, under the picnic shelter we did derkins, American Hammers, diamond merkins, and step-ups, all x 10.<\/p>\n<p>We moseyed around the upper circle the long way and eventually back down to the amphitheater for another round of the derkins, AH, diamonds, and step-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Then we headed back to launch.\u00a0 We did a static hold on the pull-up bars for 30 seconds and move on to &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Mary:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blind Date\u2019s Speed Date \u2013 1 merkin, pause, 2 merkins, pause, 3 merkins, pause, continue escalating until you die.<\/li>\n<li>Heels to Heaven (IC) x 10<\/li>\n<li>Freddie Mercs x 10<\/li>\n<li>Low Plank until time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Announcements:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>F3 softball is on Sunday. See Slowpitch or Zima.<\/li>\n<li>Drano has a 50k in the fall he invites all to join.<\/li>\n<li>Mentorship will begin next Monday at VI. Come for a 30 minute workout and 15 minutes of being mentored.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Prayer Requests:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hot Dish\u2019s kids are both headed off \/ back to college soon.<\/li>\n<li>Also, HD\u2019s knee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>NMM:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This was a great evening spent with an outstanding HIM. You should ask Hot Dish about how he scored his new truck.<\/li>\n<li>HD appreciates when pax Q at High Life as a double-down; he does not appreciate saving the Speed Date for the end. \u201cWe should have done this first!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Conversation topics included kids, jobs, weather, travel, and weekly mileage need to get ready for Bourbon Chase.<\/li>\n<li>Hoping to see Brown Bag and Rudolph (and other HL regulars) back out soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for the keys and fellowship, HD.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be back soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hint of a breeze greeted YHC during the RIRO from Mi Casa across Miller Park for the double-down after getting my butt kicked by Resistor at Redline in the gloom.\u00a0 Upon arrival at launch, Hot Dish was found waiting, enjoying the AC of his new truck.\u00a0 He reluctantly emerged and remarked, \u201cOne of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":472,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlife"],"acf":{"q":"","date":"7.22.26","pax":"Hot Dish, Greenspan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27144","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\/472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27145,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27144\/revisions\/27145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}