Running on time as usual, the backblast not the post.  Showed up early, not so early!, got some EC in at Grier, moseyed back and found some pax.

Disclaimer:

Warm Up:

SSH – 20 in cadence

Squats – 10 in cadence

LBC’s – 20 in cadence

Merkins – 10 in cadence

Pledge:

Thang:

Painlab to station, we moseyed to Grier.  At the baseball field they have a great hill and steps to infuse chaos to a normal workout routine.  Split the Pax (all 5 of us) into three groups.  Station 1 (as we have it) is the mobile unit.  Start here and Pax do 6 burpees and run to station 2.  At station 2, Pax there are to do 20 dips/derkins oyo non-stop until station 1 pax arrive to relieve.  Pax at station 2 then head over to relieve pax at station 3 who are bunny hopping up steps and moseying down, again until relieved.  Six rounds of this all the same except station 1 reduces burpees by one until down to one count.  I said extra moderate on the workout, turns out this was a great heart starter but allowed for mumble chatter and for one to push themselves as hard as they want.  Wish we had a sixth Pax as Jesus gleefully signed up to run a station on his own which I fear left him out of some bonding.  Wish in hindsight now I would have just told him to join our group.  Either way I hope Jesus did not feel left out.  This took a good 25 minute chunk of time so we packed up all of our gear and cleaned up the area real good and left, back towards the Schiele and just kept going?  I had always wanted to use the parking lot in the office industrial park.  Turns out, ironically enough that was the perfect place to discuss Lil’ Sweet’s M’s place of employment and Smokey and the Bandit.  Monk, curiously interested in knowing more and Roscoe sharing stories of erected fences, we settled into the conversation of Sheriff Buford T Justice.  For example, do you recall this?

(Lady’s voice) Woo Hoo, Sheriff (removes toilet paper from Buford’s glasses, Buford…..’nice ass’

Get me a Diablo Sandwich and a Dr. Pepper, make it quick…….

You want anything Junior?  Hushpuppies Daddy

Junior, hold my hat, my hat fell off Daddy, I hope your blank blank head was in it

Look Daddy, it’s a football game, can we stay and watch

Bankrobber, bankrobber?  Bank robbing ain’t got nothin on what this dude is doin

Somehow you sound a little taller on radio

Oh the memories, and as a Q I had a dilemma.  The mumblechatter was so good I think the Pax was willing to forego some additional pain.  Had to, had to I say reel the Pax back in.  Came up with a set of exercises reminiscent of what Spiderman showed me the Friday prior.  I mixed a version of ALARMS with some running and bear crawl.

30 CDD’s/Lunge/LBC, bear crawl part way up hill, run the rest, 20 merkins at top, mosey to bottom, rinse and repeat

30 Shoulder Taps/Squat Jumps/Freddie Mercury

5 Burpees, think we were out of time

Announcements:

Jesus has seen Smokey and the Bandit, thinking that Hushpuppy has not

Burpeethon – 10/6, Sign up or donate

Prayer Requests:

Broke and family friend

Sly in Afghanistan

Montross and family friend separation

Honored to Lead

Aye….Linus

This Q was approximately 7 days and 2 minutes late to begin, but absolutely well worth the wait.   Originally titled, “Florence and the Machines”, it was since modified to the self titled “A Day Late and a Few Minutes Behind”.

Cheers to Rosco for getting the PAX in motion while my tires screeched into the parking lot.

WARM UP: 5 Wolverine Burpies for Florence’s dumb ass.

PLEDGE

THANG

Hurricane Hoedown:
– In a circle, 7 FlutterKicks, arms extended back over the head, pass to the next guy. Complete the circle.
– 7 LBCs, pass to the next guy around the circle.
– 6 FlutterKicks, arms extended back over the head, pass to the next guy. Complete the circle.
– 6 LBCs, pass to the next guy around the circle.
and so on down to 3.

Wave of Merkins
10 Merkins, pass to the next all the way around the circle.
9 Merkins, pass to the next all the way around the circle.
8 Merkins, pass to the next all the way around the circle.

Howling Monkeys
Basically a wave of Monkey Humpers.
10, 9, and 8.  Burnt Things.

Around the Pavilion: Dutch Skate one side, Lunge next, Dutch Skate , Lunge  2 X around the Pavilion.

Mosey to the Parking lot for some, CHARLES BRONSON.
50 SSH, bear Crawl to pylon, run to end of parking lot and back.
50 Merkins, bear Crawl to pylon, run to end of parking lot and back.
50 Monkey Humpers, bear Crawl to pylon, run to end of parking lot and back.
5 Burpies.
50 LBCs, bear Crawl to pylon, run to end of parking lot and back.

Count Off x 2.

To the Wall:
Wall Sits – Add in shoulder Press x 20, SpeedBags 20 count, Reverse SpeedBags 20 count, Shoulder Press 15 Count.  BURN!

To the Pavillion for Mary.

Announcements:  Burpie-Thon Oct. 6th,

Prayer Concerns: HushPuppy n- back issues, those affected by Florence,

Great turnout for the Stop Soldier Suicide 5K/10K, including over 20 PAX and two very special Speed For Need riders, Frank Polito (94) Army &  Spencer Anderson (83) Army.   Frank made it clear to Tool Time from the very beginning, “I want to win this time!” or maybe it was more like “We WILL win this time, right Tool Time!”  Tool Time didn’t disappoint as he crushed the 5K in a time that most of us couldn’t even come close to without pushing a chair.  Team Spencer was a close second and the smiles on both these Vets faces were priceless.

The remainder of the PAX inadvertently lined up for the start of the 10K, although most of them only planned on doing the 5K.  No worries, these guys are F3 men and they handled this Omaha even though they didn’t realize what had happened until it was too late.   All finished with a smile and with the support of the PAX cheering them across the finish line.  We wrapped up the day in a circle doing 22 push-ups for the soldiers we were racing for today.

Sometimes pictures can tell more of the story than any written word, so check these out and be sure to notice some of those smiles, especially from Frank, Spencer, and Pizza Man’s  2.0.  Thank you Pizza Man for your help and guidance Q’ing my first SFN race!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/c7Bckbm91Gb5A6ASA