{"id":6337,"date":"2018-09-15T12:41:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T16:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=6337"},"modified":"2018-09-15T13:00:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T17:00:30","slug":"communication-is-down-but-the-power-is-still-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2018\/09\/communication-is-down-but-the-power-is-still-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Is Down, But The Power Is Still On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In any major storm situation, communication is key.\u00a0 YHC had several communication failures over the past 16 hours.\u00a0 First, having tweeted out the normal launch from Wiley pre-blast announcement at 1210 Friday, an Omaha announcement was made at 1815 Friday that an (apparently voluntary) evacuation from the AO to the Miller Street Publix was in effect.\u00a0 Despite a text message exchange with site Q Palin, who endorsed the evac, four Pax, including Palin, chose to be High Tiders, pronounced \u201cHoi Toiders\u201d, (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_Tider) and rode the storm out at Wiley.\u00a0 Meanwhile, a smaller Evacuee contingent of three Pax, no less valorous, relocated to the garages of Publix and Piedmont Plaza.\u00a0 As YHC still hasn\u2019t figured out a way to be in more than one place at a time, much to my children\u2019s incredulity, YHC can only comment extensively on what happened in the garages with the Evacuees.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Evacuee Warmarama (IC):\u00a0 <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Toy Solders x 10&lt;x&lt;20 (Second communication failure occurred here. YHC had the ambitious idea of starting off with something other than SSHs.\u00a0 YHC has only seen Cheesesteak successfully accomplish the idea.\u00a0 Cadence counting did not appear to be in YHC\u2019s capacity at this point of the workout.\u00a0 YHC is sure we did more than 10 and less than 20 reps).<\/li>\n<li>SSHs x 30 (That was better)<\/li>\n<li>Whirly with a Clap x 12(?)<\/li>\n<li>Abe Vigoda (slow) x 5<\/li>\n<li>Downward dog \/ upward dog combo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>The Evacuee Thang<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following Warmarama, the Evacuees loitered around the steps up to the upper Publix entrance, awaiting the arrival of Palin and any others who may have gone to Wiley (remember, there was a text message exchange between the QiC and Site Q). \u00a0We attempted the following on the stairs in a light rain following a reinforcement of the disclaimer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jump up\/down 1 step, 2 steps, 3 steps, 4 steps (We abandoned this when Bevo and Zima both complained of slippy steps)<\/li>\n<li>Up\/Down\/Mid: Right leg stationary three or four steps up with left leg below steps; Q called up, down, mid. Then we switched legs and repeated.<\/li>\n<li>Stair run: Five sets of running up to the top of the stairs and back down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We moseyed inside the Publix garage and completed two rounds of a Bear Crawl + Erkins \/ Crawl Bear + Derkins combo from a curb to a concrete pillar about fifteen feet way.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing no additional Pax arriving from Wiley, we moseyed over to the Piedmont Plaza garage and completed the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tammy Wynette \/ Stand by Your Man (7 rounds): One pax completes 10 reps of a called merkin variation, other two pax complete 10 squats.\u00a0 Flip flop.\u00a0 We completed three sets of regular merkins, one set of diamond merkins, one set of wide merkins, one set of Ranger merkins, and one set of divebombing merkins.<\/li>\n<li>Mini Spartan: Seven sets of sprints up the slight incline of the parking deck + 10 V-Ups + slow mosey back down.\u00a0 We Omahaed two moseys back out to Miller Street just to make sure there were not any late Evacuees from Wiley.<\/li>\n<li>Arod (Dora backwards) 1.5\/1\/.5: A variation of Dora.\u00a0 Pax completed 150 American Hammers (double count), 100 Gorilla Humpers (legs wider than the monkey variety), and 50 diamond merkins.\u00a0 Pax were given opportunity to complete the assigned exercises in any order chosen.<\/li>\n<li>Walking Balls to the Wall: 3 sets of balls to the wall with a 10-15 foot handstand walk.\u00a0 We moseyed from one end of the deck to the other in between each set.<\/li>\n<li>Banana\/Superman combo: 5 rolls each way was intended but YHC had another communication fail; YHC lost his sense of direction, count, and whether we were doing Superman or Banana in the middle of this and resorted to just yelling out \u201cRoll!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Elbow plank with 10 count from each of the three pax<\/li>\n<li>Run back up half of the slightly inclined parking deck, lunge walk the remainder; reclaim the orange cones.<\/li>\n<li>Mini ladder of 9 merkins, 8 flatfeet LBCs, 7 SSHs, 6 merkins\u2026.1 SSH<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mosey back to Publix garage for seven MoM:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Juanitas<\/li>\n<li>Box Cutters<\/li>\n<li>Laying on your back walking with scissors<\/li>\n<li>More elbow plank with 10 count from each of the three pax<\/li>\n<li>Downward \/ Upward dog sequel<\/li>\n<li>Maybe something else<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fin of the Evacuee Thang!<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>The High Tider Thang<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Based on garbled communication from the High Tiders, YHC believes the hearty group to have completed seven layers of dip, core stuff, yoga stuff, and at least 30 burpees, although Thistle may have been the only volunteer for the burpees.<\/p>\n<p>Fin of the High Tider Thang!<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Announcements:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>YHC has the Q for the DashPax Ruck on Sunday. We will <u>launch<\/u> from Moore Elementary on the corner of Queen and Knollwood Streets at 0645 and complete a circuit of the Ardmore neighborhood.\u00a0 Come join us and bring a pair of work gloves as we will look for opportunities to remove limbs and debris from the streets.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the route:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapmyrun.com\/routes\/view\/2243260126\">https:\/\/www.mapmyrun.com\/routes\/view\/2243260126<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obstacle Course Races (OCR) \u2013 many opportunities this fall.\u00a0 See Palin, Huckleberry and Van Gogh if interested. Zima seems to be in the know as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>COT &amp; Prayer Requests:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All those in the path of the storm, including in our own city.<\/p>\n<p>All first responders and electrical linemen &amp; engineers responding to the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Boomerang\u2019s sister Susan in Burlington fighting cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>NMM:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kobains on all the miscommunications (including an EchoDot that was taken to the elevens and was still barely discernible).\u00a0 It would have been great to be with the High Tider contingent but YHC knows they rode out the storm with gusto.\u00a0 Although YHC is in complete agreement with Balco that the WSFC school cancelation announcement was premature and ridiculous, the late notice of launch location and ensuing confusion reflect the consequences of waiting too long to make an announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Bevo complained that we spent more time with our right leg stationary on the high\/low\/mid exercise.\u00a0 YHC obliged him and hopes the supplement was more in line with his expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, YHC missed the opportunity for pull-ups in the Piedmont Plaza deck.\u00a0 Kobains on that as YHC would surely have utilized said opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>We were in the vicinity of a loud air conditioning unit that sounded similar to Palin&#8217;s truck.\u00a0 YHC looked around expecting to see the site Q each time we ran past said unit.\u00a0 This was the only disappointment of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>There was a muted conversation of whether Zima and Van Gogh work \u201ctogether\u201d at Wake Forest or Van Gogh works \u201cfor\u201d Zima.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps my proudest F3 moment occurred after the grinder portion (including 50 diamond merkins) when Zima, with a somber tone, said something to the effect of, \u201cI\u2019m going to do something horrible to you if you make me do any more diamond merkins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Exceptional work this morning from all pax.\u00a0 We did things I couldn\u2019t imagine doing alone.\u00a0 Bevo and Zima are beasts, and YHC is thankful for their push.\u00a0 YHC knows that the High Tider contingent experienced similar second F in the midst of their first F.\u00a0 Thanks guys for showing up and putting in the hard work.<\/p>\n<p>Palin, YHC will bring the keys back when the evac order is lifted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In any major storm situation, communication is key.\u00a0 YHC had several communication failures over the past 16 hours.\u00a0 First, having tweeted out the normal launch from Wiley pre-blast announcement at 1210 Friday, an Omaha announcement was made at 1815 Friday that an (apparently voluntary) evacuation from the AO to the Miller Street Publix was in [&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":[112,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bootcamp","category-impossible-situation"],"acf":{"q":"Greenspan + Others","date":"9\/15\/2018","pax":"High Tiders (Wiley) Contingent:  Thistle, Lamb Chop, Spicoli, Palin<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nEvacuees (Publix) Contingent:  Bevo, Zima, Greenspan<br \/>\r\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337","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=6337"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6343,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337\/revisions\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}