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YHC knew he had Q this AM (and JJ double-checking).  During this thought process, YHC was reading through backblasts and one in particular sounded “fun”, so I copied it….

Warmup consisted of SSH, and some stretching.  Then we headed around Pelicans and over to the bank.

Here we did:

50 Calf Raises
20 Low Slow Squats

Partner work:
100 Rosalitas
200 Flutters
300 Alternate Pretzel Crunches

Moved over to the wall for:
10 Inclines
15 Dips
25 Overhead Claps
100 Cherry Pickers
100 Moroccan Night Clubs
100 Cherry Droppers
25 Overhead Claps
15 Dips
10 Inclines

More Partner work:
300 LBC
200 Scissor Kicks (We didn’t get these finished)

Pledge

Thanks to all who joined me.

For some, March brings happiness, joy, and hope in the sports world. For others, it brings sadness and pain. This is the season of March Badness.

0530 on Monday in the Snoball’s parking lot, let’s get to it.

Warm-up
SSH IC x 15
Merkins IC x 15
At this point, the PAX questioned the pace of the warm-up. Perhaps, YHC still had the adrenaline flowing from the QvQ show put on Saturday by SA and Short Sale.
LBCs IC x 15
Imperial Walkers IC x 15

The Pledge

Mosey to the start of the street beside Snoball’s.
Mosey down the road with a stop at each light for 5 squats.
At Gastone’s Hill, we’d cover the BAD in BADNESS.

Mosey up the hill stopping at each mailbox for 1 Burpee.
At the top, 16 American hammers IC
Mosey down the hill and stop at each mailbox for 1 Derkin.
B-A-D

Continue to mosey down the street to the end still stopping at each light for 5 squats.

Mosey to the Food Lion parking lot for the NESS portion of BADNESS and Four corners
Lap 1
Nolan Ryans x 20 (10 each arm)
Escalating Big Boys x 10
Squats x 20
SSH x 20

Lap 2
Nolan Ryans x 20 (10 each arm)
Escalating Big Boys x 15 (see, we escalated)
Squats x 20
SSH x 20

Had to return Whoopee back by 0600 so he could go do his SCA-thing so 4-corners cut short.

Stop at the mini wall in front of the abandoned bank for Step-ups and Dips

Then over to the abandoned bank parking lot for 11’s.
10 Mike Tyson’s / 1 Jump Squat
Repeat until 1 Mike Tyson / 10 Jump Squats

Mosey back to the flag with 15 seconds remaining.
Felt awkward to just stand there for 15 seconds so we did 5 SSH IC.

Announcements
PAX raised $1,060 from the Extinction Run; the check presentation will be this Friday
Q vs Q Friday Downtown and Saturday at The Yank
F3 Gastonia anniversary on 3/21 – Find an AO and Post!
Time Laps in May
F3 Dads Event on the horizon
Community Foundation Run

Prayer Requests
EZ Rider – Family members
Flintstone’s dad

Prayer to take us out.

Until next time…

0530 hits and an experienced group of Pax have assembled.  Lots of chatter, but it quickly settles.

Brief disclaimer and contrary to expectations,  we take off around Snoballs and across the street to the bank. Good bit of chatter about a warmup or lack thereof.

We stop in the parking lot for

20 SSH IC

2 8 count body builders

20 LBC IC

23 MNC

Given today is Feb 20, 2023, seemed appropriate.

A lap around the back parking lot and then over to the entrance to the funeral home.

Double 11s

Merkins/LBCs at entrance

Squats/Apollo Onos at building.

We stopped about halfway through for a quick round of ab work.

Shortly thereafter, the few lights on, were now off. 🤷‍♂️

Back to the bank.   Flintstone twice mentioned hearing what he claimed to be a train.   So 5 burpees, a lap around the bank and then 5 more.

Another lap, before heading back to the flag.

We managed to get in The Pledge of Allegiance before time expired.

Announcements:

2F Lunch, Extinction Run, Viking Dash, Community Foundation Run

Prayer Requests:

Radar’s Sister, Tooth Fairy, Flintstone’s Dad, Praise for Nutria’s 2.x’s, Tiger’s Family.

YHC took us out.

An honor to lead this group.

Until next time,

Watts Up Powering Down

For any PAX showing up to The Sandlot looking for the Q on the Teamup app, they were going to be sadly disappointed. The scheduled Q took an unexpected trip to the IR so YHC had to step in and help this group of rock pushers start their work week. As we stood around waiting for 0530, there were some comments about when the scheduled Q would show and comments that he’d be coming in hot. It was at that point that YHC informed them of the change and directed them to submit any feedback to The Sandlot’s Director of Customer Satisfaction, Leeeroooy Jennnkins.

0530 on the clock, let’s get started. Disclaimer

Warm-up
SSH IC x 15
Merkins IC x 10
LBCs IC x 15
Imperial Walkers IC x 15

Count off, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Let’s mosey towards Gastone’s Hill. Stop at the first light post for 3 squats. As we continued to mosey the PAX called out, “Car back”. However, no car ever passed. Stop at next light post, 4 squats. As we stopped at this light post, I noticed that there were a couple PAX catching up. It appears we’d picked up one from the car that never passed. Stop at each light post, for squats. At some posts, the count increased by 1, and at some, the count decreased by 1. The final light post was 7 squats.

We ended up at Gastone’s Hill. Up the hill, stop at each mailbox on the right for 1 merkin. At the top of the hill, the youngsters (Maybelline and Amazon) were waiting, holding Al Gore for the 6. It was at this point that YHC looked at my watch for a time check and found that my watch hadn’t started to track my movement. This meant it wouldn’t track the workout. This meant if it’s not on Strava, then it didn’t happen. I actually considered a mosey back to the flag for a restart. At 0545, this was not possible.

So we moseyed down the hill and took a right into one of the cul-de-sacs. We moseyed to the end and restarted, sort of. My watch hadn’t started and we’d picked up a PAX so YHC felt like a reset was in order. So in the back of the cul-de-sac, we did a Halfpipe-esque, whisper version of the warm-up.

SSH IC x 10
Merkins IC x 10
LBCs IC x 10
Imperial Walkers IC x 10

Count off, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Mosey out of the cul-de-sac stopping at two light posts for 3 and 4 squats respectively. Back up the rest of Gastone’s Hill stopping at the mailboxes on the right for 1 Merkin.

Mosey back down the hill, hang a right, through the Dollar General parking lot to the Food Lion parking lot.

Escalating Four Corners in a square
Corner 1 – 10 Hand release merkins
Corner 2 – 10 Hand release merkins, 20 Squats
Corner 3 – 10 Hand release merkins, 20 Squats, 30 SSH
Corner 4 – 10 Hand release merkins, 20 Squats, 30 SSH, 40 Flutter Kicks (count both sides)

De-escalating Four Corners in a rectangle
Corner 1 – 40 Flutter Kicks (count one side only)
Corner 2 – 30 SSH
Corner 3 – 20 Squats
Corner 4 – 10 Hand release merkins

Mosey behind Planet Fitness. YHC thought about jumping over the wall into the office parking lot. After thinking better of it, the Q was talked into jumping the wall. The PAX followed. Really wasn’t that dramatic. The wall was pretty short.

Quick round of Dora 1, 2, 3. Partner up now that we had an even 10.
Partner 1 ran to other side of parking lot and back. Partner 2 performed AMRAP Mike Tysons
Partner 1 ran to other side of parking lot, did 1 burpee on the other side, and ran back. Partner 2 performed AMRAP Jump Squats
Partner 1 ran to other side of parking lot, did 2 burpee on the other side, and ran back. Partner 2 performed AMRAP Crunchy Frogs

Mosey back to the flag.

Announcements
Folsom Winter Nationals 2/11 @ 0630 – all other AOs closed that day
Viking Dash – Post Park 2/18
Extinction Run 3/4 @ 0900 – Primal Brewery in Belmont
Young Life Golf Tournament – 5/15

Prayer Requests
Watts Up – Niece’s son has open heart surgery this Weds
Youth from JJ’s church, Charlie, had seizure Sunday morning while at church (follow-up… unfortunately, he had almost a dozen cluster seizures starting Sunday evening)
Wirenut and family
Bubba Sparxx’s grandmother
EZ Rider’s son
Hushpuppy’s co-worker’s son

Prayer to take us out.

Until next time…

YHC wasn’t sure the how many to expect given the holiday and Breaker’s birthday Q at Mt. Hollywood.  Seven was the total when 0530 arrived.

Warmup:

25 SSH IC, 20 MNC IC, 20 Merkins

Mosey to AutoZone

25 Flutters IC, 15 Toy Soldiers IC

Mosey to Food Lion

Thang:

Wall Sit, Donkey Kicks x15,  Dirt Hookups x 10

Dora (3-person) with KBs

Squat-Thruster x 100 / Six Inches

Curls x 200 / Plank

Chest Press x 300 / Al Gore

Repeat Wall Sit Routine

Skip, Side Step, Nur, Side Step x 2 laps

Repeat Wall Sit Routine

90 Calf Raises – 30 Normal, 30 Out, 30 In

Mosey to Wall near PF

Wall Sit Routine – 5

Mosey Back for Mary.

Pledge, Announcements and Prayers Requests

Nutria took us out.

Watts Up Powering Down

It was YHC’s first Q as the new Site Q of The Sandlot. I usually like to come up with a theme for the Weinke if for nothing else to keep myself entertained. Since this was the beginning of a new Site Q era at The Sandlot, YHC decided to take it back to when it all began. I found the Weinke from my first Q at the Weds Martha’s House workout (whatever it was called at that time) so I decided to go with that. Upon looking at workout, YHC decided this sequel needed to up the ante.

YHC arrived to find several PAX stretching and ready to go. After planting the flag for the first time and watching several PAX roll in hot, it was 0530 and time to go.

The Pledge

Warm-up
It had been 2,412 days since that original Q so that would inspire the warm-up counts
SSH x 25 (OK, so 24 isn’t a typical number to stop on so I forgot to raise the inflection on 24)
LBCs x 24
Merkins x 12
Imperial Walkers x 12

Mosey past Plant Fitness to the Food Lion parking lot. The original Q was done in the empty Harris Teeter parking lot which is now the busy Planet Fitness parking lot so for safety reasons the sequel modified the location.

Partner up. Partner 1 ran 4 corners around the light posts while Partner 2 completed exercises.
Exercise 1 – 200 Lunges
Exercise 2 – 250 American Hammers
Exercise 3 – 300 LBCs

The counts were doubled from the original Q so we had to Omaha at certain points for time consideration. It was also during my first lap that YHC noticed the notecard with YHC’s Weinke which I’d casually laid on the ground had been stolen. This would not serve as a problem.

At this point, we moseyed to the far end of the Food Lion parking lot. 20 Floyd Mayweather’s were called (doubled from the original Q), but there was discussion about the appropriate execution of this exercise. Here are the official definitions from the Exicon. The PAX can determine what they think…

Floyd Mayweather’s
From a basic plank position, raise one hand off the ground and punch across, behind and under the opposite arm, keeping the core stabilized. Complete in cadence and switch to other arm. Add a small dumbbell or brick for an extra challenge. Can also be completed from a Knerkin Plank position.

Nolan Ryan’s
Start in a side plank position with your ungrounded arm extended. Complete a punching motion as if someone, namely Robin Ventura, were under your other arm.

Another round of 4 corners, this time with 200 Merkins, 200 Squats, and 200 Flutter Kicks

To the wall for 20 Hip Slappers (doubled from the original Q)

Back to the parking lot for a round of 11’s. Was planning on 22’s with Merkins and Squats, but due to time constraints, called 11’s with Hand Release Merkins and Jump Squats

Mosey back to the flag.

Quick round of Mary, Birthday-Boy Flintstone called flutters (I think) and Short Sale called Peter Parker/Parker Peters.

Announcements
12/31 – Some sort of beer something, Details to come
Push the Rock Challenge
Jan 14/15 – Join Roundup and Hacksaw for 24hr run in Dallas

Prayer Requests
Turtleman
Watts Up’s niece’s son, Charlie, heart surgery
Wanda Williams, the secretary at our church, just lost her husband Gary very suddenly to a stroke

Prayer to take us out.

Until next time…

It seems like counting has been somewhat troublesome for some PAX lately. Whether it’s counting light posts going down the road or keeping up with rounds during 11’s, math can be hard. We’d put our counting skills to the test this morning.

YHC arrived on a Monday morning at The Sandlot ready to get to work. A good crowd as usual was ready to go at 0530 so let’s get started.

Warm-up
SSH IC x 12
As we moved into Merkin position, Roscoe asked if there a reason we did 12. YHC didn’t really have a reason for that particular number so there was an awkward silence. Roscoe said it must be because it was the 12th. He also noted that it was his anniversary. The 24th to be exact. Numbers, everywhere numbers.
Merkins IC x 12 (which is really 24 merkins, one for each year of marital bliss for Roscoe and Mrs. Roscoe)
LBCs IC x 12
Imperial Walks x 12

The Pledge

Let’s mosey. Stopped at the parking lot behind the CaroMont Health building down from Snoball’s. Let’s test those counting skills with a round of 11’s.

10 Mike Tyson’s on the lower side of the parking lot. 1 Jump Squat on the upper side.
Back and forth until we got to 1 Mike Tyson and 10 Jump Squats.

Let’s mosey. Stopped at the base of Gaston’s Hill. Now let’s see if we can count the number of mail boxes up and down the hill. Based on YHC’s Back to School Q at The Labyrinth a month ago, there should be 27 if you count the full loop. At each mailbox, 1 burpee.

After that lap, time to mosey again. Through the Dollar General parking lot to the corner of the Food Lion parking lot. Time for some 4 Core-ners.

1st corner – 10 Crunchy Frogs
2nd corner – 10 Crunchy Frogs and 20 Dying Cockroaches
3rd corner – 10 Crunchy Frogs and 20 Dying Cockroaches and 30 LBCs
4th corner – 10 Crunchy Frogs and 20 Dying Cockroaches and 30 LBCs and 40 Flutter Kicks

As we started at the first corner, I believe someone said we should have done 12. Q fail. Would have been a great opportunity to test our ability to count by 12’s. Let’s reverse and try it again.

1st corner – 12 Crunchy Frogs
2nd corner – 12 Crunchy Frogs and 24 Dying Cockroaches
3rd corner – 12 Crunchy Frogs and 24 Dying Cockroaches and 36 LBCs
4th corner – 12 Crunchy Frogs and 24 Dying Cockroaches and 36 LBCs and 48 Flutter Kicks

Mosey back to Snoball’s.

We got back in time to do a minute worth of Mary.

Announcements
CSAUP in Oct
Convergence @ Bulldog 10/15
JJ 5k 9/24

Prayer Requests
Huckleberry
Turtleman
Tesla
BOS
Roadie

Prayer to take us out.

Until next time…

A nice morning in the Gloom this morning as 9 PAX showed up to see what YHC had in store but most likely just showed up because that is there normal Monday routine.

It was almost bedtime the night before the Sandlot and YHC hadn’t worked on his weinke yet.  With the perceived success of going into previous workouts from last week’s Q at the Goat, YHC looked up a previous random workout from several years back and got inspired with what would be today’s weinke.

No FNG’s so a brief disclaimer and then we got into  it with YHC wearing a new color F3 Gashouse shirt.

SSHx 10, Squats x 10, Dive Bomber pushups x 10 and they were awful because the PAX couldn’t quite get the timing down.  Whoopee however was excited and possibly impregnated the pavement so if you see a baby pop out of the second parking space in the corner of the Pelican’s Lot don’t blame me.

With that Q Fail we moseyed the long way to the lower lot of Martha’s House for some Colonel Trautman.  Fortunately, at least one PAX knew the Rambo reference and here is what we did.

Run to the far light post for 20 merkins, run back to the median for 19 merkins, run back for 18 merkins, then back for 17 and on and on down to 1 merkin.  YHC modified the distance to another 35 yards to aid in recovery.  Most PAX got the last merkin and were hitting failure just at the right time all the way down.  Simple but not easy…Defib and Captain Steubing were pushing the pace and a group of PAX stayed together.  Great work!

Next we did burpee long jumps for about ten parking spaces.

Next we lined up for 40 shoulder taps in cadence.  This was followed by ring around the parking island where we hold plank on the curb and one PAX moseys to the next PAX and tags in around the circle.  Two laps of this and then we did the next thing.

The next thing was circle up for exercises.  Each PAX calls 5 reps in cadence and then the next PAX calls the reps for the next 5 all around the circle for a total of 45 reps.
We started with Squats, then LBC’s, then we modified to 20 Bonnie Blairs, then 20 CDD’s.

We NUR’d a few parking lights and then skipped to the next light.  Bonus points were given for skipping with Joy.  Whoopee looked like he was doing an interpretive dance skip (think Snoopy when it snows).

We then moseyed back to the start and held heels to heaven for the last couple minutes for some sharing about suicide prevention.

Prayers for Whoopee’s Uncle

Kids, teachers, Parents

Bos’s Dad and family in the Motor City

JJ’s Aunt and a broken hip

Praise from Cinderella for God’s faithfulness and answered prayers

Gentlemen, we have a 50 mile relay coming up.  Defib is on the Q.  The signup will be out shortly.  Please take advantage of this local event as bonds are strengthened and grit is demonstrated.

Always an honor to lead!

Roscoe