Eight strong rolled into Midoriyama on a warm day for an old man Q. Disclaimer said. Let’s warm up.

Warmup

SSH x 20 IC

Arm Circles, small circles, medium (or smedium for Freight’s shirt), large, all forward then backward for about a minute.

Hillbillies x 20 IC (except I started Imperial Walkers or something but the Pax knew what I meant)

Mercans x 22 for the vets, these were counted by our own crusty old vet Slaw

Pledge

Thang

Mosey to first soccer field on the right near the bleachers.

A modified Deck of Death and instead of real cards, I had an app that we tried out to mixed results. I modified the exercises to things I liked and needed.

Hearts – Flutter Kicks IC x number on the card with face cards at 10.

Spades – Copperhead Squats IC

Diamonds – Mercans IC

Clubs – Run to Corner of the soccer field for curls IC with half cinder blocks, left there by Blart from a previous beatdown.

Jokers – 20 dips on the bleachers OYO

Whenever there was a Queen of anything except clubs (curls) we ran to the hill at the end of the soccer parking lot, did the exercise and ran back.

Whenever there was an Ace of anything except clubs (curls) we ran to the top of the hill near the dog park and ran back down, exercised, then ran back to bleachers.

I asked our high achievers to help me push the pace hoping to finish the entire deck of 54 cards in our time and they did.

We ran out of time with only 7 cards left but judging the sweat level, well mine any way, everyone was pushed. Pizza Man’s watch had over 2 miles covered and lots of reps, notice the IC on the exercises. When I Q’d last time I called it “Ups and Downs” and related each exercise to events that have happened to me and the M during our marriage. Somehow, everyone just remembered the “Downs” so I didn’t do too much story time today but I did make this point. No one knows what cards we will be dealt each day. Keep pushing through. Stay strong. Your faith, family and friends will help whatever that card is that you are dealing with.

Mosey back to the flag.

Announcements

CSUAP shirts and registration, Nomads leaving Eastridge Mall Saturday at 6:00 a.m. to go to Charlotte Mustang to workout. I can say it is fun to go to different AOs and meet new F3 Pax. Keep headlocking (EH). There are men everywhere that need this.

Paryer Requests – Floppy Disk’s M, Bandit’s mother and family, Tool Time (miss that guy).

COT

Moleskin

That Pizza Man is pushing hard training for his 26.2. He and his M have a 5K this week. He helped me count on several occasions. Note to self: It is sometimes difficult to Q, count, exercise and breath at the same time. Freight mentioned that getting up and down was sometimes more difficult than the exercise. How old is he? I noticed he exercised on the concrete after an incident with some ants on the trails. Lil’ Sweet kept trying to get a head start on each card. That guy is getting better each week. Huckleberry has a hurt shoulder but was pushing hard like he always does. He always make me work harder. Slaw has been called the happy exerciser and he always brings it and has a good time on the trip. Blart is really pushing and really getting stronger. Not a lot of mumblechatter out of that one but he is getting better. Billy Madison goes after it full force. He sprints and attacks each workout and has fun.

The dogs at the dog park didn’t seem to like us. Some of our guys discussed “manscaping” while others remain hairless. I think Lil’ Sweet and I are going trail running soon. He said we were. The dog park hill was more substantial than I remembered. The Men of Midoriyama pushed that rock today! Always a pleasure!