What’s your favorite exercise?
Itās always interesting to think back about when you first met people that youāve known for a while. For Skidmark and YHC it was running near (or sometimes with) each other at Run Club from Tapline back in the day. Back then we would run 5 miles at 8:30/mile and then sit around at the bar and laugh about how āfastā we were. Little did we know at the time that we would end up both joining F3 (YHC via South Wake, Skidmark through CarPex), becoming involved, and slowly becoming better and better friends. Over the years weāve consistently pushed, encouraged, and supported one another.
Once Skidmark said he wasnāt necessarily going to Q for his big day I decided I would pick up the Q in honor of him. I planned to do many of his favorites including the dreaded āwhatās your favorite exerciseā question per the backblast title. Prior to Friday Skid made it clear that he wouldnāt be at Cletus, but would be out for a morning run instead. As another participant in the āBad Ideas Challengeā of Holly Springs Run Club I had a pretty good idea what he was up to, but we wouldnāt know the specifics until we saw the 6+ hour 40 mile activity on Strava mid-day Friday.
YHC pulled into the parking lot to find Abe already there. Vehicle evidence could be seen in the far lot showing that Skidmark, Lipstick, and 187 were out for the beginning of Skidās mosey already. Within the next few minutes they made their way over and were joined by Oboe and Doc along with a surprise appearance from some of the Fritter Foundation in Emeril, Dumbo, and Dawgpound. There was some salt quickly expressed about Skidmark not being present for the birthday Q – cāest la vie, it was already too late to switch to Crazy Ivan!
Each pax was asked for their favorite exercise – Abe chose bear crawls (much to YHCās glee), Oboe chose Low Slow Flutter, while the entirety of the Fritter Foundation seems infatuated with Have A Nice Days.
FNGs: None
Warm Up:
After a mosey over to the far parking lot we circled up for 40x SSH. At this point Katniss and Dumbo moseyed in – something about running, sleeping, Iām not sure. But they were late and there were burpees to be had for it. So we did 5x burpees and then completed warmup:
Daisy Pickers x10
Sir Fazio x10 forward & backward
Good Morning x10
The Workout:
One of Skidmarkās many favorites – the merkin clock. We made it through 1 through 10 before calling it for now.
For our first act we honored Abeās favorite exercise – we Bear Crawled nearly the length of the parking lot. Conveniently stopping at Skidmarkās truck.
We then moseyed to the amphitheater for 40 counts of balls to the wall and peopleās chair – 3 times through each.
Mosey towards the far parking lot and passed it to the white fence for one of YHCās favorites – typerwriters. We did 10 reps on each wrung and slid down and back – repeated 5 times total.
Mosey back to the parking lot near Skidās truck for Oboeās favorite – 40x low slow flutter. We added 40x squats to allow the timing to work – at this point Skidmark came around ~6 miles into his mosey. We ran with him over to the concession stand. At this point we rewarded the Fritter boys who liked Have a Nice Day along with what Skidmark told us was one of his favorites – Catch me If You Can Indian Runs. We did one lap of the soccer fields with the pax in three groups with 1 quick Have a Nice Day (aka a Turkish Getup) for the pax in the back. Canāt speak for the other pax but 187 and YHC had a lot of fun making Lipstick work to catch us š
Mary:
We then circled up on the tennis court for mary. Pax were asked for the mission of F3 South Wake – we planked for a few minutes and we were done.
Announcements:
2nd F is alive and well at Panera. Holly Springs Half run on November 14th.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Skidmark for 40!
Prayer:
187 and his M. Noah’s Ark and his family.
FNGs: none
The Workout: The plan was to start with an exercise at the first corner, mosey to the next corner and add an exercise, rinse/repeat, then take an exercise off on the next go ’round. It went like this:
The Workout: Ran the route backward. Good conversation about BRR, 50k in the mountains, etc. Kept at a good clip all the way around. The only wildlife seen this time around was a dead mole.
The Workout: No tacos this morning. Instead, PAX got a set of 11s in the parking deck. Squats on the bottom, Murkins on the top. We started out with a bear crawl on the way up but dropped that in favor of a sprint halfway through. After that was completed, we lined up in the bottom parking spaces to leapfrog people’s chair down to the end and leap front balls-to-the-wall at the turn. Back to the parking lot for Mary.