Another rainy Friday in the Gloom brought us out to once again Burn in Slowness…
Slow Burn is great. It usually brings out a lot of guys and is a great place for FNGs to get acclimated to not only our workouts, but also our foolishness. There were no FNGs this day, however, so we disclaimed in the usual fashion and… wait… is DH STILL talking? Good heavens… Trucker and Backdraft start really giving it to him… But hold on, CSPAN just got off the phone with Apache, and (CRAP!) we lost the burpee bet. There were more guys at Petra than Slow Burn. We owe them 22 burpees. Stupid rain. Stupid fartsack. Well, we’ll work them in to the Q later on… For the love of… is he still talking??? Ok… eventually we had lift off and moseyed down to do The Thang:

Mosey to parking lot in front of the Empire Pizza building.
SSHs, IWs, a few “Perfect” Merkins… etc. Then we assembled ourselves in front of Empire Pizza for a little more… talking…………….. (I’m sure there were a couple of eye rolls in there) Oh wait, and 10 burpees OYO to start paying off our burpee debt to Rock Hill…

F3 is one of the most fun and important things I have in my life. I’m incredibly grateful to have it. So we chatted for a quick minute about how this is prime EH season, and about our need to give it away. I was wearing my Kathmandu shirt (on purpose) and we talked about how this is so important to some that they are giving it away in Nepal. So we should give it away. Give it away now! And now that the song is stuck in your head, you are ready for what came next. The Red Hot Chili Peppers work out… RHCP.

Count off by 4s. Each group head to a corner around the building, and do the exercise as assigned, IC to a 20 count of everything.
Round 1:
R = Rosalitas, H = Humpers of Monkeys, C = Copperhead Merkins (look it up), P = Plank Jacks
Round 2:
R = Russian Twists, H = Hops, Side Straddle, C = Carolina Dry Docks, P = Peter Parkers

Then we split 1s and 4s from 2s and 3s and went to the railing where 1s and 4s did supine pull-ups on the bar until the 2s and 3s got back from doing a lap around the building. Flapjack.
This was a crowd pleaser, so Repeato (in honor of our new Nantan, Pusher).

Mosey to the back of the building for a little People’s Chair and then hustle it back to COT…

NMM:
Ho- Lee- COW the mouths were running today! It was fantastic, and I encourage it, or rather instigate it, so I love it…
Couple of notables, Trucker and Backdraft were so annoyed by my talking too much that they took off to the head of the pack and passed me by, so I decided to left turn on them and leave them to run freely unencumbered by leadership… LIFE LESSON: If you think your being a leader, it’s useful to look back every now and then to make sure someone’s still following…

Also, as we were getting ready to repeato on the 2nd round of pullups, I paused long enough that Twister shouts out, “Uh-oh, looks like he’s out of ideas” to which I quickly retorted, “Naw man, I’m full of good ideas, they’re just jockeying for top position at the moment.” Not sure where that came from in that second, but we all laughed, and Twister says he will use that one again later…

COT: Continued prayers for relatives that are injured, sick, or otherwise in need. Prayers for Olive and his family, and many praises as well.

Final thought there was just that even though we joke a lot, there is a very serious need for us to give our best to those that matter most, and to be present for our M’s and 2.0s.

Always a blessing to be with you Brethren of the Gloom…

Helmet, out.