• Post Type: Backblast
  • When: 04/10/2023
  • AO: The Sandlot
  • QIC: Nutria
  • FNG's: Winehouse
  • PAX: Watts Up (R), JJ, Whoopee (R), Roscoe (R), Fountainhead, Virus (R), Defib (R), Flintstone, Amazon

Easter Monday started off right for 10 HIM’s who joined me in the Gloom at The Sandlot – including one FNG!  This was advertised as a “Shortsale style” workout because it was very loosely reminiscent of the QvQ champion’s final-round victory beatdown.  Sorry (cough–not sorry Whoopee) if any PAX were mistakenly expecting Shortsale to be the actual Q.

With an FNG in attendance, started off with a proper disclaimer then went right into a standard warmup of SSH, Hillbilly Walkers, Perfect Form Merkins, (all 10xIC) and 5 burpees OYO.  Then recited the 5 core principles and counted off before we moseyed to the parking lot at Martha’s House where — surprise! — we found a pile of Easter eggs spread out in a couple of parking spaces and plastic buckets near islands on opposite ends of the eggs.  We circled up, split into 2 teams. Each team chose an egg and did the exercise (reps were per PAX, not per team) and then bunny-hopped to put the egg into their bucket.
10 perfect form merkins
10 reverse lunges
10 burpees
10 star crunches
25 Bobby Hurleys
25 mountain climbers
25 Makhtar Ndiaye’s (according to JJ, don’t ever forget where he’s from – was it Senegal??)
25 shoulder taps
25 of something I can’t remember
50 flutter kicks
50 side straddle hops
50 seal jacks
50 American hammers

Rinse and repeat until 0612.   Each team completed 23 or 24 exercises – more than I had expected – but good thing there were over 50 total eggs.  Unlike Shortsale’s final QvQ performance, there were no beers or gift cards for the winning team, so we moseyed back to the flag for 20 seconds of mountain climbers until time for Pledge and COT.

Announcements:
Time Laps at WWC May 19.  See Slack or Flintstone.
2nd F lunch at Papas and Beer in Dallas next Wednesday 4/19.
Convergence at Midoriyama 4/29.

Prayers:
Virus’s daughter having heart surgery
Flintstone’s mom and Flintstone’s dad
Fountainhead’s brother-in-law

Last but not least, warm welcome to Winehouse!

Privileged to lead this fine group of HIM’s this morning.
 – Nutria