Day: May 5, 2019

Another not so gloomy morning at Gashouse for a Star Wars Day beatdown.  The crowd may have been a little thin compared to some other Saturdays but Jedi’s don’t care about quantity, only quality.

No FNG’s so we went with a quick disclaimer before a very short warm-up:

SSH’s X 15 IC

Imperial Walkers X 15 IC

Time to split up the Bootcamp and Painlab and off we went.

The Thang

First, we had to gather our coupons that we were to carry throughout the workout:  a genuine (maybe not) Stormtrooper Helmet, a double-ended light saber and a standard light saber…..all legit.

We moseyed to the Sherwood Elementary track for part I of this Star Wars adventure:

Let’s do a Jedi lap that included running the long straight aways and lunge walking the short sides.  After that, we prepared for some modified Jack Webbs or Jar Jar’s that went like this:

10 Merkins – 5 Air Presses – Run across to other side of field

10 Merkins – 10 Air Presses – Run across to other side of field

10 Merkins – 15 Air Presses – Run across to other side of field

This continued until the last set of 30 Air Presses (How can air presses be so hard?)

Our Female Sith that we sometimes see at Sherwood showed up so we decided to mosey for Part II of the workout:

Mosey the long way up Dixon Rd and back down to First Pres to my favorite set of steps for some singles Dora 1-2-3:

100 Merkins in sets of 25 with running the steps in between; after the Jack Webbs/Jar-Jars, some us had to modify (YHC) and my sets were actually 25-25-20-15-15 but we got it down.

Second was 150 Flutter Kicks in sets of 50 with running the steps in between.

Last was 100 squats in 2 sets of 50 with running in between.

For the record, we still had our Jedi gear with us.

Time to Mosey to the Grier track for Part III which included a little Wolfpack/Jedi Grinder:

Monkey Humpers X 10 IC – Run half lap – 30 Mountain Climbers – Plank

Monkey Humpers X 10 IC – Run half lap – 30 Mountain Climbers – Plank

Mosey over to the picnic tables for 2 sets of the following:

Dips X 15 IC – Step ups X 20 IC – Derkins X 10 IC (I’m tired)

Time is winding down so it is time to make the Kessel Run back to the Schiele to catch up with the Painlab group.

We finished off together with 21 burpees in honor of Riley Howell, the young man who sacrificed himself for others during the shooting at UNCC this week.  F3 Waynesville (where Riley is from) asked the Nation to honor him with 21 burpees just before the COT at Saturday workouts as Riley was 21 years old.  We were honored to suffer through them for the cause.  Aye!

COT

Announcements; Several prayer requests; Name-o-Rama

The moleskin:

I had not Q’d at Gashouse in a while so I was looking forward to it and attempted to mix it up with the Star Wars theme.  Thanks to Whoopee and Watts Up for the pre-workout Ruck, really enjoyed the fellowship and work.  As we have more than one of our PAX dealing with family issues, please remember them in our thoughts and prayers.  This past week marked 8 months since the passing of my father.  The Q Source has helped me reflect on these 8 months and how much F3 Gastonia has helped me to keep moving forward.  I have found more support and comfort from F3 than from any other source.  I am grateful and for this reason, I want us all to remember we have opportunities to impact and support each other.

Until the next one.  Aye!

See you in the gloom.

Stroganoff