Month: March 2024 (Page 4 of 15)

4 HIM posted for a mysterious Q by YHC. There was a slack post about a new route for the Halfpipe. Is that even a thing? This is what happened…

Pledge of Allegiance

We kind of waited for Alma Mater because he was late again.

Start – go straight, u-turn, R, straight, R, cul-de-sac, L, R, L, u-turn, L, R, R, straight, loop, R, u-turn, R, straight, L, L, end

We finished a couple minutes past time due to Alma Mater being late. You hate to see it.

Announcements – Cheesesteak VQ at TRB, Extinction Run date change, Convergence & Community Foundation Run, CSAUP, Dream Center workout today at 5:15-6

Prayer Requests – Baltimore, Huck recovery, Turtleman, Holy Week & Easter

The PAX enjoyed another Blueprint Bootcamp, complete with the finest Exicon references.  The warmup to start though:

• side straddle hops
• Moroccan nightclub
• seal jacks
• overhead press
• overhand clap

Then the full go:

• Mosey, to 11’s with box jumps and derkins
• Mosey and box cutters
• Mosey and wall work:
  • dirty hooks ups
  • balls to the wall
  • wall squats
  • hip slappers
• Mosey and flutter kicks to Veterans Park, pledge of allegiance
• Mosey and NUR
• Mosey and big boys
• Mosey and killer rabbit
• Return to AO, triple bear

Announcements and praises included:

• 2nd F lunch at Bad Daddy’s
• April convergence
• Extinction run April 20
• Blow Grits twins are doing well
• Blueprint’s 2.0 was baptized.

Prayer requests were for the Hall family, and the Gavel family

Welcome to Monday at Life Line.  There were no pleasantries or BS today.  Cherie Berry conveniently slipped away to “make the coffee” as the clock struck 0530.  Warm-up consisted of SSH, Imperial walkers, Mountain climbers, Nolan Ryans, Superman pull-ups (10xIC).  I gave a brief disclaimer somewhere in the middle of those, then went straight to Thang 1:  Hot Corner helpfully reminded me that it’s called a Ring of Fire after I described that we would do merkins like a count-off, one at a time while all pax hold plank.  10 pax = 10 merkins each.  Next we moseyed the long way around the building to get blocks.

Thang 2 was EMOM Blockies, but not as cruel as Hei Hei’s routine last week.  We started with 5 and got up to 8 after 4 minutes.

Thang 3 was a classic Lifeline routine. Pax do block work while one “timer” pax carries a sandbag up the hill and back.
Thrusters
“Lawn mower” (bent over) Rows
Dead lifts
Curls
Reverse lunges (with block)
World War 3 sit-ups
Uneven merkins

After 3 full rounds of exercises (and having to rein in Hei Hei who just about had the sandbag on his back already), we paused for another Ring of Fire, this time with leg-lifts while pax hold six inches.  Cherie Berry had returned by this point, so it was initially confusing that there were 11 pax instead of 10…

Then it was back to Thang 3 for another round or two before we started the “cool down” routine, reversing the EMOM blockies starting at 8 and ending at 5.  Many of the pax took exception to the term “cool down,” but it was 38 degrees and the number of blockies was going down every minute, so I rest my case.  We then returned blocks and moseyed back to the flag.  There was enough time for one more Ring of Fire, with jump-squats while pax hold Al Gore.  We finished out the last 90 seconds Mary-style with American Hammers and LBC’s, then pledge and COT.

Announcements 
VQ’s coming up:  Cheese Steak 3/27 at The Ricky Bobby, Montana 3/30 at The Yank
Convergence 4/13 at CaroMont Park downtown, followed by Community Foundation Run with Speed for Need, all other AO’s closed
Extinction run to be rescheduled. 
FCA Golf tournament on April 15th – see Hot Corner to participate or help sponsor

Prayers
Kool Aid, Blueprint, Huckleberry, Anchorman, Turtleman.  Other pax on IR.  Marriages.

Afterwards, Cherie Berry explained the last 7 things Jesus said before He died.  I won’t try to paraphrase or condense the meaning of these, but I encourage everyone to look further into these on your own – whether you were there or not.  We all benefit from a few minutes of extra prayer and reflection during this Holy Week. 

Always an honor to lead – thanks to the 9 HIM’s who participated in the entire beatdown and to the 1 HIM who joined after making the coffee (it was good coffee, I’ll admit).

It was a perfect morning with just a little chill in the air. What better way to start a Friday than a workout at Tequila Sunrise? As we gathered in the parking lot it looked like the Pushing Rocks Challenge was continuing to bring out a good crowd.

Warmup

• SSH
• Don Quixote
• Arm Circles

Mosey to the road at the back entrance to the school

• 1 burpee, run to the first telephone pole on the left and do 1 jump squat and 1 merkin, run back to the start
• 2 burpees, run to the second telephone pole on the left and do 2 jump squats and 2 merkins, run back to the start
• keep incrementing until we reach the STOP sign at the end of the road, should be up to 10 reps by then

This took almost 30 minutes but all the PAX were dedicated and worked hard to finish.

On to the Triple Nickle

• hand release merkins at start
• LBCs in the middle of the route
• flutter kicks at the street light

We got a few reps in and then had to mosey back to the school and catch the Pledge. We spoke briefly about pushing yourself a little. We always mention that you should modify as necessary, but at the same time you should push yourself as necessary.

Announcements:

• Convergence, Fuse Park, Apr. 13 – 7:00 AM
• Extinction Run Upcoming, details to come

Prayer Requests

• Gavel
• Hall Family
• all those spoken and unspoken

A rare FNG at Caddyshack means we pull out all the stops and show off the best of what Queens U has to offer. Lots of never before used F3 lingo gets thrown around and a very formal COT, with name symbols and all, takes place. Zippy may never come back, but he was certainly shown a good time!

We ran. We had a good word afterwards. It’s Holy Week so dive into the word this week men. Make it a habit and stay disciplined with it.

Roscoe needed a little help with his Downtown Q today so I said I got you and started concocting a beatdown accordingly. Then I heard it was someone’s B-Day today so I immediately changed those plans accordingly. Well wouldn’t you know it the B-Day boy didn’t even show. I hope there’s a dang good B-Day reason behind that. That being said we hit up several 5/3 sets and several 50/3 sets throughout all of my favorite Downtown spots. We started things off with the pledge and got started with the warmup. After that we got to the working on our 5/3 and 50/3 sets. The first 5/3 sets included a few rounds of Jump Squats/Pull-ups followed by several rounds of Mike Tysons/Burpees down Main St. Then into the parking deck we went. Once in the parking deck the 50/3 rounds started level one was LBCs/Burpees. Level 2 was Merkins/Burpees. Level 3 was Mountain Climbers/Burpees. Level 4 was Flutters/Burpees. Level 5 was Hillbillies/Burpees. Level 6 was Walking Lunges/Burpees. Once finished at the top we ran it back the same way on our way back to the bottom with Mike Tysons in place of the Burpees. On the way back to the flag we stopped for more rounds 5/3 – Mike Tysons/Burpees. We also got in a few 53 Second wall sits in there to pay homage to the 53 seconds of pure B-Day delight I’d imagined he had and was the real reason he wasn’t here today as the 53 seconds now takes 53 hrs. of full recovery at that age. Now we’re finally finished all of the 53 workout. Hope everyone enjoyed it. See y’all at the next one.

COT

Prayers: Blart (Hurt Back), My Family, Hall Family, Turtleman, Anchorman, Huckleberry

Gandalf on Q at Shark Tank means everyone is summoned. All 16 PAX who attended regretted the decision about the time we got to the top of the mothership the 3rd time…

For fear of drawing the ire of all those involved in pushing rocks, this is the official statement that 4 men ran around Belmont last Friday morning at 4:30am. Thank you. GD